Moving on from the previous chapter where we did a lot of work on the mouth, and where …we created all these dialog actions and custom mouth shapes, now it's time to turn to face …and to see how we can adjust the face to match those mouths so that they all work together …in synchronicity. So I've done a little a bit of housecleaning in the library just to …clean things up, because as the project grows, you have to, obviously, keep on top of your …symbols and how they're named and so forth. So what I have done, I took the mouth symbol, …which is previously called mouth, and renamed with space mt A. The reason why I put a space …in at the beginning is so that all of these symbols go on top of the folders where I store …all the reference images and all the secondary symbols. And I put the head symbols at the …top, as well as the mouth symbols, because I regard the mouth symbols as almost as important …as the head, and I don't want them getting lost inside the hd Folder. If I was doing …a body, I would call it bd, and I'd put the body bits in there. So here are the other …
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9/19/2012- Setting up layers for the head
- Animating blinks
- Fine-tuning expressions
- Fixing layering issues
- Adding expressions to the animation
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Introduction39s
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Setting up Flash8m 35s
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Dos and don'ts2m 59s
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1. Creating the Front View
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Drawing the head19m 2s
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Creating the mouth11m 27s
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Drawing the eyes4m 31s
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Animating the eye blink10m 19s
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2. Mouth and Dialogue
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Building unique mouth shapes12m 10s
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3. Facial Acting
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Creating jubilant expressions11m 47s
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Fine-tuning expressions11m 36s
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4. Rotating the Head
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Clock rotation demonstration2m 23s
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Creating the three-o'clock pose10m 16s
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Creating the remaining poses13m 17s
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Fine-tuning the head rotation11m 54s
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Fixing layering issues7m 42s
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5. Creating a Head Turn-Around
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Introducing the turnaround2m 55s
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Creating the E head (rear)8m 59s
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Creating the H head6m 41s
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Creating the G head11m 33s
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Creating the F head19m 18s
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Creating the B mouth (3-quarter)13m 41s
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Creating the C mouth (profile)14m 33s
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Adding detail to the C mouth7m 42s
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Creating other mouths6m 28s
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6. Fine-Tuning and Animating
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Putting together a head rotation14m 29s
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Using the rig with audio14m 59s
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Conclusion
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Goodbye1m
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