Facial Animation - Added Eyebrow Animation and Cleaning Up

Today I focused on adding in-between animation between the extremes on the eyebrows. I added a little bit of bounce to the eyebrows rather than the eyebrows just slowly shifting to the next pose. I also cleaned up the lipsync more. I feel like my lip sync still has that 'machine gun chatter' look to it, so I'll work on it at a later date if I've got the time.


Lipsync - Eyebrow Animation from NoahGeeCG on Vimeo.

Facial Animation - Eye and Eyebrow Extremes

Lipsync - Eye and Eyebrows Extremes from NoahGeeCG on Vimeo.

In today's Maya session I've just added the key poses for the eye and eyebrow movement. I also spoke to Alan about my premise project, which I will be posting about promptly :).

Predator Lip Sync - Fixed Visemes

Predator Lipsync - Fixed Visemes from NoahGeeCG on Vimeo.


Today I cleaned up my visemes and some of my jaw bounce animation from last week. There were a few visemes that were too over exaggerated or the timing was slightly off, hopefully, this looks a little better!

Facial Animation - Added Visemes

In today's class, I cleaned up my jaw bounce animation and added visemes to give the mouth a little more movement. Next week I will be applying the phonemes that I made for my phoneme library to add more character and animation to the lipsync.

Predator Lip Sync - Added Visemes from NoahGeeCG on Vimeo.

Facial Animation - Predator Jaw Bounce with Full Audio Clip

I've finished the jaw bounce animation for next week. It looks like I've got some 'machine gun chatter' in the middle part of the lipsync, which I'll try and tweak in the next Maya session.

Predator Jaw Bounce Animation with Full Audio Clip from NoahGeeCG on Vimeo.

Facial Animation - Predator Lip Sync First Playblast

This week I created a pose library, a great way to store poses to use in the future. I learned that this is very useful when creating lipsync animations. I also started animating a lipsync animation to a sound clip that Alan gave us. I only added a jaw bounce so that next week, I can add the phonemes. Below is what I have so far, but I will carry on adding a jaw bounce to the rest of the sound clip so I can carry on animating next week.

Predator Lip Sync Jaw Bounce from NoahGeeCG on Vimeo.

Pose Library: