Facial Animation

 Week 1

Year 2 starts with facial rigging and animation, the first week was on facial shapes, these are emotions as well as phonemes for talking.

This module is one that I am not confident on due to not being completely comfortable with the weight painting.

An example of a phoneme can be shown below, the character is doing an "AE" phoneme:

The next facial pose we practised was an emotion, this is an example of happiness, I wanted to give a character a more subtle smile as these don't seem so forced in my opinion. I'm not completely happy with this, the eyebrows could've been made a little more angled upwards and the mouth being slightly more open and the bottom lip curled slightly in.

After attempting happiness/a smile, I tried to do a very annoyed emotion. I'm much more happy with how this one came out.