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d0c

07-14-2003, 12:44 AM

i've modeled a head.. but i noticed from this tutorial i saw.. that after the artist modeled his head .. he then said he remodeled this character into a laughing/smiling expression and continue to add more detail to the mesh laugh lines, rinkles around the eyes that kind of thing.. i was wondering do i have to remodel the head model into that position myself or is there a way to do it that i just dont know of?

hope you understand what i mean ..

thx :P

CARTOONSNIPER

07-14-2003, 01:07 AM

hey

You dont have to remodel your charater,you only remodel if you are planing on using the morph shape modifyer(thats what i think its call anyway)alternativly you could rig the head with bones.

I think...

anyway hope i helped.

d0c

07-14-2003, 01:24 AM

i do understand what your saying but im still a bit unclear on the question i asked.. i added an image to better ullustrate what i mean .. im guessing ur saying the face must be rigged to move it into a position like this .. but here is the image anyways.. sorry for the poor quality..

CARTOONSNIPER

07-14-2003, 01:35 AM

Yeah if you want to animate it,or you could ground verts with clusters and move the clusters on you character to get a certain pose...

i think

its late

swag

07-14-2003, 02:00 AM

for the best results u have to remodeling the face for each expression

info: Bay Raitt modeled 675 expressions for Gollum :)

stallion151

07-14-2003, 02:09 AM

yeh but he didn't model them from scratch! he just edited the original really well.
To do blendshape you only have to duplicate your original mesh and edit the face to suit the expression your after, you can add detail but then you have to take off check topology in the option box for blendshapes.

swag

07-14-2003, 03:51 AM

he did this in mirai cause the good magnet tools i didnt say that he model each blendshape new :) you can use all tools for the deformaton - cluster or lattice deformer are great for deformation or the ClayDough Magnets (or use wings3d) :beer:

stallion151

07-15-2003, 01:43 AM

mirai looks like such a cool program, seen those timelapse movies are they are something else.

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