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Animate a Face

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Learn how to create believable facial animation with this series of tutorials, which contain nearly 4 hours of video. Topics discussed include:

  • Observation and planning
  • Principles for animating eyes, eyelids, eyebrows, and mouth, with demonstrations designed around a short sample clip
  • Application of traditional animation principles to facial animation
  • Detailed lip-sync demonstrations using both 3D and 2D mouth designs
  • Facial rigging and animation techniques specific to each design

While Animation:Master was used to demonstrate these concepts, the topics discussed can be applied to facial animation in any package. Very few program-specific tools are used.

Watch the full series on YouTube!

Files

Files originally available as part of the CDROM set can be downloaded here.

Audio & Transcripts

A Few Good Men: WAV | MP3

“I eat breakfast three hundred yards from four thousand Cubans who are trained to kill me, so don’t think for one second that you can come down here, flash a badge, and make me nervous.”

A Nightmare Before Christmas: WAV | MP3

  • Italian: “Tu vuoi che io muoia di fame. Sono un vecchietto che a stento si reggie sulle sue deboli forze. Io, a qui tu devi la tua stessa vita!”
  • English: “You want me to starve. An old man like me who hardly has any strength as it is. Me, to whom you owe your very life!”

Animation:Master Actions and Models

The following files were saved from Animation:Master 2003, and are being provided as-is. I no longer use Animation:Master, and am unable to verify whether or not these files will work in the most recent versions.

Actions

Models