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Jerkazoid
10-02-2003, 07:53 AM
im still learning how to rig better so before i start working on another full character.....

i just decided to do some face animation and speech bc im ok with setting up that stuff.. (i think)

i took it as far as i could, so i might have to scrtach this when it comes time to actually building the whole thing.

about 2 hours to animate this clip. (sound is from another game)

(cinepak)
http://www.jerkazoid.com/avi/battle1.avi

looking for critisim or commets, here is the sketch i did (to help judge by?)

http://www.jerkazoid.com/images/sardaukar.gif

what could i do about his hair?

am i even able to get a job doing facial animation in games, or companies just use capture tricks?
oXYnary
10-02-2003, 12:43 PM
Seems pretty good. Maybe the face is a little stiff, but ehh.

The only thing is you have some shots of the mouth, and the lack of a tongue really distracts.

BTW: Having the pupils animated was a nice touch.
gaggle
10-02-2003, 07:40 PM
Pretty cool. The f part of "before" is nailed nicely. Is that his lower teeth that's floating around near the end of "dishonour" though? It kinda looks like tonguemovements, but it looks like its the teeth doing that. Which obviously would be.. a little strange and unsettling :).

Something wacky is going on around there anyway.

And if there is no tongue, maybe consider adding it? Wouldn't have to cost that much polywise I don't think, though obviously it'll be just another pain in the ass thing that has to be animated :). "death" really could use a tongue though. A tongue showing right between the teeth when he says the "th" part.
Jerkazoid
10-02-2003, 08:43 PM
he has no tongue, i know its a mistake...thought i could get away with it.

i should also texture the teeth just a lil too.

the jaw opens with blendshapes, is that a bad idea? i never really tried using Softbody binding so i dont think i can do it well. i geuss i should start.


anyone have any idea (or place to see) what i can do to model and animate the hair well?
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