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In this course, we'll cover methods for adding topology to our new or pre-existing model to make creating mouth shapes and expressions feasible.

For anyone focusing on animation, having a character to work with is important. In a previous course, we went through the process of building a basic character that we could use to practice our animation. The character is meant to show action and emotion through only the movement of the body. While this is great practice for getting the most out of our character's body movements, at some point we'll probably want to start creating facial expressions and even make our character speak. We'll use a variety of tools in Maya like the Split Polygon Tool and the Insert Edge Loops tool to manually add and remove edges and generally reroute the geometry as needed. We'll also add geometry for the interior of the mouth and reassemble the head with the existing body.

Digital Tutors - Creating Facial Expressions in Mudbox 2011 and Maya 2011
English | FLV | VP6f 454 kbps 15 fps | 782 x 646 | MP3 96 kbps 44 KHz Stereo | 459 MB
Genre: elearning

In this series of lessons, we will learn some of the tools and techniques you can use to build facial expressions and phoneme shapes for your characters.
Creating characters with expressive faces is often a very important part of our 3D projects. Depending on the type of character, you may need to communicate a great deal through the expression on its face. Facial expressions relay a lot of non-verbal information about our characters and Mudbox can make creating those expressions really easy and a lot of fun. In this course, we'll talk about several concepts to keep in mind when building facial expressions, such as the muscles of the face, how the skin reacts when the muscles move it into an expression and some important tips to keep in mind when working. We'll cover methods in Mudbox for sculpting different expressions and how to use sculpt layers to create an extremely flexible workflow. Finally, we'll look at a couple of ways that we can get our expressions into Maya in order to set up animatable blendshapes. Once done, you'll have a better understanding of how you can use Mudbox and Maya to create appealing facial expressions for your own characters.

Digital Tutors - Creating Facial Expressions in Mudbox and Maya 2011
English | VP6F 782x646 | MP3 96 kbps | 985 MB
Genre: eLearning

Digital Tutors Exploring Animation in Maya 2011 Animating a Swinging Character DVD-iNKiSO | 1.36GB
Genre: eLearning | Language: English

Digital Tutors - Rigging Wings in Maya 2011
English | MPEG-4 1280x720 | AAC 64 Kbps | 3.38 GB
Genre: eLearning

Digital-Tutors - Exploring Animation in Maya 2011: Animating a Swinging Character
3 hrs. 18 min. | April 4, 2011 | Maya 2011 and up | Author: Delano Athias