2014
Digital Tutors
Justin Marshall
00:50:00
English

In this Maya and Mudbox tutorial we'll learn to move Blend Shapes back and forth between the two programs. When creating characters for animation, facial expressions can be an important part of the performance.

There are different ways for achieving these expressions, and one of these is to use Blend Shapes. Blend Shapes are modified versions of geometry (facial geometry in this case) that illustrate a particular muscle movement or facial expression. We can then animate transitions between these shapes to get facial animation.

There are lots of ways to create these shapes and Mudbox is one that works very well. We'll learn to create shapes from scratch using Sculpt Layers and Sculpt Layer Groups. We'll create a library of smaller shapes and then combine those into an overall expression.

We’ll end this Maya and Mudbox training by exploring the use of the Pose tools in creating these shapes and learn to set up Blend Shapes made of multiple objects.

Introduction and project overview 1 Introduction and project overview Watch it now 01:12
Modifying Blend Shapes in Maya 2 Modifying Blend Shapes in Maya 04:47
Sculpting an expression 3 Sculpting an expression 06:20
Creating individual shapes 4 Creating individual shapes 07:59
Creating mouth shapes 5 Creating mouth shapes 06:08
Transferring the Blend Shape library 6 Transferring the Blend Shape library 03:31
Combining individual shapes 7 Combining individual shapes 05:19
Using the Pose tools 8 Using the Pose tools 08:37
Creating Blend Shapes with multiple objects 9 Creating Blend Shapes with multiple objects 05:07

http://www.digitaltutors.com/tutorial/1821-Blend-Shape-Workflows-in-Mudbox-and-Maya

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