SPAFi Maya Tutorial - Basics of BlendShapes

[golemkonty]

dude, i cant believe that maya has only absolute blend shapes in 2011 year! this is so unpractical! even lightwave saves the sapekeys(blendshapes) within the structure of the object! this means that it doesent have 40 heads for 40 blendshapes - it has ONE shape that contains the information for vertex positions within it! so.... if you have a mesh with 4000 faces and you have 40 shapekeys that means you have 120000 faces in the scene only for making this character to talk!

[mimikawaii7386]

Can you edit a corrective blendshape after it's been created? Is it possible? I don't want to redo the whole thing just for a single vertex =/

[Adrian890722]

did u do low poly in maya then sculpt more detail in mudbox and bring it in to blendshape? id love a tutorial of this process if possible !

[Kromany1996]

omg! thank you! thank you! thank you! thank you!  you helped me so much.

[TheCoollikdat]

IS THE PROGRAM FREE?

O.O

[OmarAlmonte]

@TheCoollikdat This program cost at least $2000.00

[TheCoollikdat]

@OmarAlmonte DAMN

[yumikuchki]

hey guys what do i select to get my model to shade like that ? because right now its shaded a way that i can see all the faces (smooth shading)

[Mixamo3DAnimation]

EXCELLENT Blend shape tutorial, and what a model to work from! Cheers!

[kunzi1983]

hi， at 5：35， which button do you click？thanks

[stepsy001]

voice makes me sleepy!

[hhhleohhh]

dude this is a good tutorial but the video sucks man. the video is lagging behind and the audio is all over the place. not trying to sound harsh just thought you should know incase you didnt realise and wanted to fix it

[yksnimus]

Hi, Im noob and need help.

Theres a floating vertex that I cant delet! I dont know even how it got there, how can i delete it? Is this a bug?

[chuggyman69]

I downloaded this today, still can't figure it out.

[bustedtonight]

Yeah man I think Lightwave Endomorphs are a better implementation of this concept

[MiloSai]

hey

where can i download this?

[Videshi2001]

Hey hey, thanks for the quick overview. I'm just getting started on blend shapes in class.

Incidenally, it might be my player, but I'm getting quite a lot of audio skipping during your video. Sentences are getting cut off like crazy.

[InSaneTK]

really great, but i think blendshapes remove some facial dynamics that bones with propper scripting can have.

[Nathanael3D]

Great work, I really enjoy working with Blend Shapes in Maya, more than with bone animation. I used BS on my character Couette too, take a look at my chanel :)

-Nath

[AbadGorilla]

where the eyes?

[kuiz1200]

you don't need the eyes to make blind shapes.

you put the eyes to head joint.

[drizen666]

Sounds like Tom Green doing the narration

[thenewboston]

haha it does

[danieboy777]

cool i wanna be a game designer someday, but it's a far off dream i suppose, but you're a nice inspiration

[AnnieMouse60]

Do you mean a games artist? A games designer is a totally different thing.

[donttellmymum]

hey where did u get that face from? did u draw it urself? how easy is that?

[mcnezmo]

Dont you recognize it? it is Smjagol from LOTR

[alahad]

@mcnezmo smeagol looks really old in here yaay!

[DorianGrayClampitt]

@mcnezmo Smeagol?

[purpleusi]

sound is REALLY Choppy and lags behind the video...

[ollieflp]

Hi i want to get into animation what where is the best place to get maya or 3dmax and which versions?

[ollieflp]

Sweet ill check it out

[RiVvenGuard]

the sound is annoyingly choppy

[hfdgdfigdfgdf]

can someone tell me what program is better for making animations and models for movies:maya or 3ds max

[carloscavalcanti]

Theres Blender too.

I imagine each program will have its strenghts and weaknesses. Botton line is, they all work very well.

[ShoDiezy]

or lightwave 3d

I can $3ll som1 lightwave 9.3 or maya 8.5 ult

msg me for details.

[KingisKong]

generally both are very good programms it depends mostly of the user. But you can say generally more animations are made in maya by the industry and they have reasons for this.

[hfdgdfigdfgdf]

thanks for information

[mcnezmo]

For films and movies maya for sure. For architecture it is Max. for games it is both maya and max.

[JAKx2007]

@mcnezmo what about enviremental architecture in games?

[maxximum07]

how will I put a smoothening effect on the object? I can't find it. I only see it on the polygon on the menu bar, but I don't have it. Pls. help. Thanks

[mcnezmo]

I guess that is be cause the smoothing tool you can use with polygons only.

[maxximum07]

Yes I used only polygons. How do I make it look like there's no bulk everywhere? How do I smoothen it?

Thanks a lot.

[6240038]

why do you want us to believe that the Maya look how you put them be like your own imagnetization when they are human like us. don't confuse people more then what you are they are a human like us . im a maya

[amaurythewarrior]

wtf?

[mssssee]

Hello world! Maya is called the program not the models shown lol!

[WanagiAkicita]

I think this guy's defensive, because he thinks Mayans are being insulted, by being depicted as aliens. Actually, according to Battlestar Galactica, they are from another galaxy, but he's still right, they are human like us.

[Greathoof]

Maya means for us Maya Autodesk, which is a program.... with that you can do really goooood 3d stuff

[WillSmithy2567]

wow your a dumbass man. Maya is a 3D program these faces are what he created from maya hes not saying at all that the mayans looked like this read next time you comment.

[Zevcollins]

Screwed up my axes and the construct collapsed in on itself, LOL

[hillbillybj]

all my tabs an everything is missing help!!!!!!

[joebloggs93]

if you mean that you may have accidently minimed your tabs go to display, UI elements, and re open any closed tabs

[hillbillybj]

cheers thanx

[donrodman3]

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[tyrande102]

hey man, i need ur knowledge regarding on this matter. Can u tutor me on how to do basic models (like spaceships, tanks etc.)And how to get started with Maya, THANKS MEN!

[breadfish55]

I have two questions thatneed answering ASAP please.

firstly i have accedently deleted my sidebar thing (the one with the basics on your right)

how do i get it back

And secondly i know how to edit objects and change the shape(to makes human like faces & bodys) on polygon primatives but i dont know how to on NURBS primatives which is what i need as you dont often have perfectly straight cheeks & lips etc, please help.

[duncmoney]

Great work! Quick question. How do you animate the expressions one you have them all set up? I'm having trouble going from one expression to another.

[IntricateIntegral]

I have a little problem that when I pull the slider up my object MOVES across the screen to the position where the blend shape was, rather than staying still.

[mcnezmo]

Yes it is easy to fix but hard to say through the chat. You must change an order of the history on your major model. In thr maya interface there is on the top right side a very small icon which appers like little arrow pointing down. Expand it and with middle mouse drag and drop the history stuff down on the bottom. one os the rows you will move down will fix the problem. Do it one by one so u will not mees up anything else and also you will find that particul;ar one which cause the problem.

[randomvideodude]

how many polygons?

[duuuur1]

how to you open maya

[mamamama112]

your lucky i leaned it at home by myself after hundresds of tutorials!

[ThoughtsInMotion]

Yeah, there is definitely a problem with the sound in these videos... it jumps up and down in pitch weirdly and skips chunks of audio :/

[TekLok]

no other video does this ever, what kind of compression are you using?

[mcnezmo]

it is normal wmv codec

[nowayiwill]

no its fine ....dont worry dude..Noobs

[Virgil077]

im learning how to use this program in my school. dam its so much to remember

[SeriousIlya]

ah u so lucky

were using vector works :(

i came first in my year for graphics but i wish i went to your school

[Virgil077]

hehe we havent even begun to do stuff like this. we just started using rigid and passive bodies and we only had one project involvong animation and it was hard. so were slowly getin there

[SeriousIlya]

Rigid stuff?

Thats what im trying to learn right now :)

but you still have to do fun modelling and stuff in order to insert it in the rigid body.

also ragdoll is fun xD

[Virgil077]

yeh i know i just started experimenting and i found it amusing and my friends thought i was crazy cuz i thought it was amazing, but i found awesome XD

[SeriousIlya]

that means im crazy too ;)

[mcnezmo]

You can go in our school we are starting brand new courses in SPAFi Anbimation Academy since September 2008.

[SeriousIlya]

Which country though?

Im in Sydney, Australia, epping

[mcnezmo]

:) that is a bit far away :) we are based in Czech Republic - Prague

[zakyzeek]

i think it sounds fine so far.

[SgtBeefcake]

Like a scratched record...

[mcnezmo]

i dont know guys. maybe you have got some bad codec or something. i have got no problem with it.

[FruitChronicles]

its fine for me

[nobitanobi]

not to be rude, but it's the same for me too. It jumps from part to part. Just to let you know

[mcnezmo]

must be the problem of your connection or on u-tube or with yours computers guys. i did watched it just now again and all is ok. sorry guys but perhaps try again another time.

[mcnezmo]

to me it works ok

[Unc0nscious]

Something is wrong with your audio, buddy.