faceBlendsScreenCapture

faceBlendsScreenCapture
Originally uploaded by mostrostudios

It's been a while since I have posted ; I've been making progress but it isn't something that is easy to capture in a screen shot. This is a little movie as I test out one of the character's face rig. The face rig is the shapes built into the face that allow for lip sync and expressions as well as controls to drive it. This guy's rig is prettty basic but it should have enough control for a decent range of expressions as well as lip sync.

There are a couple of theories behind how to lip sync, phenomes or visemes. Phenomes are based on the sound your mouth makes during speech and goes back to the days of hand drawn cell animation. Visemes are a little simpler, it breaks down words to their most basic parts and then assigns shapes the mouth makes when speeking those parts. For example the letters B, M, P all looks very similar when spoken, same goes for F, and V. I have tried both techniques and have had a lot more success with visemes.