Overview
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Learn how to convey emotion through facial expression, and animate dialogue, with these fundamental animation principles.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Rig overview: CINEMA 4D
- Rig overview: Maya
- Basic emotions
- Mixed emotions
- Asymmetry in facial expression
- The eyes and emotion
- Planning the shot
- Blocking out the timing
- Adding facial expression
- Adding overlap and follow-through
- Reading the dialogue track
- Blocking out the initial poses
- Final blocking
- Adding facial expression
- Animating lip sync
- Final touches
- Setting up the shot
- Blocking the body poses
- Adding moving holds
- Animating secondary motion
- Animating the dialogue pass
- Adding blinks and eye direction
- Finalizing the shot
- Next steps
