Maya tips on modeling facial expressions.

This video demonstrates how we created facial expressions for our lobster character in our short movie Courageous Crustaceans.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Maya
• Autodesk
• 3d
• animation
• expressions
• morph
• targets
• cartoon
• training
• belnd
• shapes.

[Utubeblows]

you made individual blendshape nodes for each shape? The file must have been massive! Nice model though

[antipodedayan]

The head is the only shape that has blend shape nodes besides the eyes. As far as size goes,the head is a simple revolved shape created as a nurbs surfaces, so it is not a huge file like a smoothed poly shape with the same look. The nurbs surfaces are also much easier to work with when using the sculpt geometry tool.

I'll try to post some more videos on how this works.

[chaylon]

yeah some basic modelling tips would be cool too... I dont even really know how to model correctly in Maya..

[antipodedayan]

I'll be posting some modeling tips soon, but in the meen time look at the clip I just posted on Modeling a landscape.

[chaylon]

nice..

should do some very basic animation tutorials for us...somethig simple like a racket hitting a tennis ball or something

[antipodedayan]

Good suggestion. I'll be posting more tutorials soon.

Thank you for watching.

[PiXaLDeSiGn]

interesting