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I find the jaw bone in a facial rig indispensable! Too such an extent that I
model all my mouth shapes with no contribution from the jaw bone at all,
even the ones that need to have the jaw open, like a big O mouth shape for
example. Then what I do is I link the rotation of the jaw bone root to the
big O slider so I don't have to double up my work and have to animate all of
the jaw movement, I also have a separate slider that controls the jaw bone
itself for any tweaking I may need to do by opening and closing the jaw.
This may sound like over kill but there is method to my madness, see I
usually have a left and right slider on my mouth shapes custom ppg, which
means I can determine which side of the mouth I want a certain shape to have
more influence over, having face shapes with no jaw rotation built in means
I don't have any weird distortion in the "jaw Bone" area of the jaw when
mixing shapes on different sides of the face( asymmetrical facial shapes
rule, so much more believable!) This combined with a healthy set of facial
null "bones" makes for a very expressive mouth and face.
You let me know when I'm rambling....:)
Regards,
m@
-- --Original Message-- --
From: Nick [mailto:NPetit@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 7:26 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: Lip Sync
Yeah it's only a matter of taste and what you get used to, as long as you
are efficient at it... I may give your suggestion a shot, see if I like
it... a different approach can always come in handy... :)
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Simon <mailto:mail@(protected)> Pickard
To: XSI@(protected) <mailto:XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 2:55 AM
Subject: Re: Lip Sync
"Personally I'd much rather see my weight curves in the animation editor
where you can see them a hell of a lot clearer and have more room to play
around with..."
Of course yeah. I do the same thing with my clips as well when I need to get
in there and dirty. I can still use an animation editor to edit the weights
on the clips if I need to.
It`s nice hearing about different workflows. I guess that`s a good thing
about xsi, being able to do things in different ways.
Regards,
Simon
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<DIV><SPAN class=043383908-02052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
find
the jaw bone in a facial rig indispensable! Too such an extent that I model all
my mouth shapes with no contribution from the jaw bone at all, even the
ones that need to have the jaw open, like a big O mouth shape for example. Then
what I do is I link the rotation of the jaw bone root to the big O slider so I
don't have to double up my work and have to animate all of the jaw movement, I
also have a separate slider that controls the jaw bone itself for any tweaking
I
may need to do by opening and closing the jaw. This may sound like over kill
but
there is method to my madness, see I usually have a left and right slider on my
mouth shapes custom ppg, which means I can determine which side of the mouth I
want a certain shape to have more influence over, having face shapes with no
jaw
rotation built in means I don't have any weird distortion in the "jaw Bone"
area
of the jaw when mixing shapes on different sides of the face( asymmetrical
facial shapes rule, so much more believable!) This combined with a healthy set
of facial null "bones" makes for a very expressive mouth and
face.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=043383908-02052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=043383908-02052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You
let me know when I'm rambling....:)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=043383908-02052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=043383908-02052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=043383908-02052004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>m@</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-- --Original Message-- --<BR><B>From:</B> Nick
[mailto:NPetit@(protected)]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 30, 2004 7:26
PM<BR><B>To:</B> XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Lip
Sync<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yeah it's only a matter of taste and what you get
used to, as long as you are efficient at it... I may give your
suggestion a shot, see if I like it... a different approach can always come in
handy... :)</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mail@(protected) href="mailto:mail@(protected)">Simon
Pickard</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected)
href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, May 01, 2004 2:55
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Lip Sync</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>"Personally I'd much rather see my weight curves in the
animation editor where you can see them a hell of a lot clearer and have more
room to play around with..."<BR><BR>Of course yeah. I do the same thing with
my clips as well when I need to get in there and dirty. I can still use an
animation editor to edit the weights on the clips if I need to.<BR><BR>It`s
nice hearing about different workflows. I guess that`s a good thing about xsi
,
being able to do things in different
ways.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Simon<BR><BR><BR><BR>---<BR>Unsubscribe? Mail <A
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