In my opinion the best workflow as an animator reside in the mix and match of both. You animate with bones, then you add the icing on top of the cake using shape keys.
@@Violn95 You have it backwards, with bones you can put the face in any position without limits but it’s missing finer detail like smile lines for example which is why you use a shapekey on top to fix any issues or add little details like that since they excel at fine detail and specific shapes Video games (for hardware performance purposes) do use shapekeys for the entire face but that can run into the issue of shapekeys not interacting well together and creating artifacts that are difficult to find and diagnose beforehand. You also need a TON of shapekeys to make the facial expressions not look repetitive, 52 is a common number of shapekeys and that’s a ton of work just to mimic what bones do for a fraction of the work
@@DimensionDoorTeam it does not depend. shape keys must come after bones, because when you move bones, the affected vertices move depending on their relative position to the bone. But if you use a shape key first, you may move the vertices into positions where they will be affected by bone movement in an unpredictable way (especially when rotation is concerned). but since most likely you modeled a shape key with the bones already in their correct place and only to fix some inadequacies of the pose, you dont have this problem when using shape keys after bones.
These can also be used in Unity for game development: - Unity imports shape keys as blend shapes. - Select your model in the Project window, and in the Inspector, you will see a Skinned Mesh Renderer component. - In the Skinned Mesh Renderer, you will find the blend shapes listed. You can manipulate these blend shapes through scripts or animation clips.
Wow! I never imagined shape keys being used so effortlessly and conveniently. They've always been a bit of a hassle to work with, especially when dealing with a large number of them. However, this approach changes the game entirely.
shape key rigging is how you create photorealistic facial animations. It doesn't end up choppy because you can blend all of the shape keys together at the same time. You can even use apple ar or any facial tracking but you do need to create at least 52 blendshapes which takes forever :((((
However, this method of rigging the shape keys uses the distance to the images, so as the selector moves over the images it turns on any shape keys it passes over, that's what causes the "choppy" animation in this instance.
Yo this rocks! I was over here trying to figure out how to calculate a drivers equation where after going a certain distance, the driver dips from one shape key and rises in the next, but seeing that there's straight up a "Distance Between Two Objects" driver is SO much more convenient. Thank you so much for helping me figure this out!
Omg this is insane was tearing my hair out at how daunting face animation was this deserves an award, amazing tutorial and reignited the flame for animating please keep making these tutorials! ❤
personally i would recommend both rigged and shapekeyed .. shapekeyed for expressions and the rigged for subtle after motions with bendy bones (dynamic phone or physbones)
i like this in principle (it's similar to blendspaces in game engines), but by using snap, you're basically robbing yourself. you could easily smoothly blend between multiple shape keys by arranging each section in a 2d space and have no snapping, thus creating basically an infinite variation in face shapes, which would work for both cartoony and realistic animation :)
I really appreciate this, I was waiting for this tutorial. It's a game changer for the "Stylized Look" that this method can add on expression...Thanks for sharing your awesome work!
I appreciate that you took the time to make a tutorial on how to do something, while not just shoving a addon down our throats. Like- “This Method requires this addon, and can only be done with this addon.” Absolutely stunning man! I’ll go an support you when I can! Even if I don’t plan on using the addon version.
massive props for making a tutorial on how to set the basic version of the addon you made up yourself while explaining how the addon works and can be used. just truly amazing! im an indie dev and not yet very fluent in animation. what are the potential downsides of shapekey animation in a stylized context?
Awesome video! Two things: 1. Despite the couple negative comments about the method. This is EXACTLY what I needed for my project, which did NOT need the complexity of rig. Simple. Straightforward. Got me to my objective way faster than I thought. THANKS. 2. I love the model style of the black hair model in this video. Did you make this from scratch? Can you do a video how to make something like this?
omg that adon is gonna be a life saver.... me.. animating complex facial motion with about 20 RAW blendshapes. no bone drivers... just the raw shapekey values 🙃
On the refrain of "shape keys animate linearly" - they don't have to. You can set interpolation of a driver to be non-linear, as well as just non-linear for set keyframes.
That's an amazing addon but you really should show people how to go through and make one of these stylized models for this. Cause I would love to do this cause it seems a lot easier than 3d facial expression modelling, but I have no idea how to make these.
Id imagen if you want more controll and to smoothly blend the shapes, instead of bringing the selecter to the shapes, bring the shapes to the selecter. You can probably set it up so all the images are in a circle around the selecter, and just bring them in towards the middle to turn on and off those indervisual shapes. Then there is no need to worry about passing over blendshapes to get to another, or mixing ones on oposit sides ^-^ Id imagen it could be made as a "base" in like a clock shape, then you only need to add the shapekeys that are in use for that part (say the eyes) and you can leave whatever is spare blank, just changing the shape its blending and the plain's texture to indicate the shape. ^o^ I have to try this!!
Que tutorial mais perfeito! Achei um pouco avançado porque não tenho mta familiaridade com os drivers, mas vou tentar aprender, com certeza! Parabéns pelo vídeo, valeu mesmo! 😊
awesome tutorial✌, shape key or morphing workflow has been around forever in other 3d programs its very good not just for faces, blender has it too but most people will just use that default bone face rig thingy
minor nitpick, but no, this isn't how most 2d animation is done, i know that you didn't mean anything bad by it, but by reducing the painstaking process of hand-drawn 2d animation to "picking and choosing" you're kinda contributing to the idea of "the computer does everything" which i know that as an animator you're annoyed by too. anyway, I think the reason a lot of animators like to have this absolute control over their work is that, unlike real life, every frame should be controlled, handled carefully and generally be pleasing to look at. this mindset is what leads to great moving pictures that also look like great normal pictures.
I completely understand, I didn't mean to undersell the 2D process, I was mostly talking about the tween style animation that it widely used in TV shows on a tight schedule. Hand drawn animation is definitely its own art form
Cool addon but I can't work with face rigs only using blendshapes, it's too repetitive and all the blending is linear. Adding bones on top of blendshapes can make sure that you're hitting your nicely sculpted poses but you can give more variety by offseting things using the bones, and you can create nice arcs for things like mouth transitions.
Yeah, there's a preferred use case for this and that would be very stylised choppy animation that doesn't necessarily require blending between frames. You could get creative with the shape keys though, like in these examples. It's a different way of thinking about animation but I think there's use cases for both methods. ruclips.net/video/439OBQl7Pb8/видео.htmlsi=68uqAKIyMky01dcy&t=695
Gonna head to sleep after This xD: Just Search: live2d mouth chart Repetive Hell Yea!: But "Bad Results cause of X Reason" i disagree... since Live2D uses a Very Similar Workflow which can get Very Smooth Results if Done Propertly... (and Yes i know there are Differences between them but its Close Enough that you can probably get a Really Good Result just Using them...)
Just note that this will not work with more complex faces, as shape keys animate linearly, and thus cannot make curved movements. For example, a model with giant eyes, where lids need to be rotated down to close - would clip through eye balls if done with shape keys.
Yeah, although you can get creative with the way you make shape keys. If I ever needed some curved motion, I would create an intermediate shape key, and then blend from the open blink to the intermediate then to the closed blink, it's a little more work, but it is possible. I've seen some videos where people actually separate the XYZ coordinates of a shape key and then animate them using drivers. It's not the most flexible approach but it can be done
Great work! Subbed! This really got me thinking too. I mostly do abstraction and motion graphics, zero character work. This same method might work with a selector that's being randomly moved via geometry nodes. This might be a workflow for creating seemingly greater variation between multiplied models...
Used to have something like this I used in 3ds max but have had to switch to blender as of today due to my free licence ending if this works in the current blender on steam I will be purchasing. Thanks for your time. Updated I found a way to load old ver of blender onto my steam deck. so current ver isnt an issue just I have run into issues when trying to buy your product from your website Update 2 I used blender market its taking some getting used to but seems to all be working thank you
Yeah we use to learn facial animation like that on 3DS max, it's called morpher in Max like in morphing. very easy and user friendly but efectively less realistic on realistic caracter.
Rigging isn't my strong suit so probably not. I can make stylised models, but rigging them correctly for animation just isn't my forte. If I really needed to rig a face I would just use something like the FaceIt addon that generates one automatically
Thanks. Good method but as you said, the selector moving between expressions can mess up the transition, touching unwanted expressions in the process. Also, if your selector is an object and not a bone, then the animation won't port properly to game engines.
actually i said your technique was horrible but it might be good, hold on, give me an other 3 hours, i'll try to make this work (edit ; no it's so fun to do it took me 20 minutes, thanks, i subbed)
Heyy I LOVE your Gwen Spider-Verse Model! How do you add the 2D lines for the facial expressions??? a tutorial on that would be sooo awesome! thank you! SUBED.
They're just tiny meshes that I put in front of the model! I'm actually making a tutorial on it right now! Different ways to get line art and I cover that method!
Do you mean the images? Yeah, you can set up any character with shape keys and they can have their own set of images that match to them, then you can have more characters with separate shape keys and separate rigs
They are joined together! For the shape keys to work correctly they should all be one object, you could keep them as separate objects but then you would have to have the same shape keys for each object and then assign the drivers. It works but it's a little more complicated
Its there a were of form to make the controls three times with the same model?? You Know, maybe 1 controller for the right eye, 1 controller for the left eye, and another controller for the 2 eyes at the same time??
You could always separate the shape keys into Left and Right using a Vertex Group, then create a second Selector and repeat the same process, this time using the distance between the new selector and the image to control the left or right shape key, then you can move them independently and if you want to control them together you can just move both of the selectors at once
11:40 this is the furthest I get, but when I move the selector nothing changes. (Blender 4.2) I know RUclips comments aren't the best place for troubleshooting but I can't figure out what I possibly missed.
Yeah that was a silly error that got through (but I uploaded a newer version without that error). A selects everything in Blender so I was on the wrong window when I pressed it. Hmm the separate Shape Keys should work and it works on my end, can you send me a message on Twitter/Blender market with your issue? Just quick troubleshooting, make sure your model is selected, you have chosen the category that you want to separate and that your shape keys are named correctly, click the Rename/Validate button and see if it helps
It's the exact same process as the facial expressions, however this time instead of smiling,frowning etc, you make a bunch of different shape keys for the eye direction, so Eyes Up, Eyes Left, Right etc. then you create the image planes the exact same way, but this time put them in a grid, so the Default eye position at the center, eyes Right to the right, eyes left to the left, Eyes up at the top. The only difference is the shape keys, the rest of it is exactly the same
No, the addon is made for Blender. If you animate using the rig it'll keyframe the shape keys and those can be imported into Unreal, but the rig itself can't
Hi i am using this addon , i have a problem with linking the character to another blender scene the contollers is not effecting the mesh anymore if you know the solution for a proper linking or appending i would be very gratefull
I did what u did but for some reason, it doesn't have a mixed expression instead went from the expression then the default then the expression what should I do.
The left and right parts are tricky to do. It's the exact same process but this time we have a second Selector and and a second shape key, then we just add the drivers for this second shape key and the selector and it will control the other side of the face. It was too complicated to go over in this video
Hello! I practice realtime animation in blender and have been looking for somewhat of a puppeteer tool for it. Daz3d has the best one but this interests me. Does this work on bones? Can I store multiple poses and then blend between them?
Bro im tripping so hard right now. how tf do you move the skin like that?? you didnt even say.. mine just selects vertices and moves them around making it distorted. how do you move them collectively like that?? im using the same tool
No, this is a custom built setup for Blender. I've never used the other programs so you might be able to set it up but this driver and shape key method is Blender only
In my opinion the best workflow as an animator reside in the mix and match of both. You animate with bones, then you add the icing on top of the cake using shape keys.
Maybe do that the other way around? Might be better to get general placement of expressions and then fine tune things with bones
@@Violn95 You have it backwards, with bones you can put the face in any position without limits but it’s missing finer detail like smile lines for example which is why you use a shapekey on top to fix any issues or add little details like that since they excel at fine detail and specific shapes
Video games (for hardware performance purposes) do use shapekeys for the entire face but that can run into the issue of shapekeys not interacting well together and creating artifacts that are difficult to find and diagnose beforehand. You also need a TON of shapekeys to make the facial expressions not look repetitive, 52 is a common number of shapekeys and that’s a ton of work just to mimic what bones do for a fraction of the work
@@within_the_sky2356 sorry, I did have that backwards
@@DimensionDoorTeam it does not depend. shape keys must come after bones, because when you move bones, the affected vertices move depending on their relative position to the bone. But if you use a shape key first, you may move the vertices into positions where they will be affected by bone movement in an unpredictable way (especially when rotation is concerned). but since most likely you modeled a shape key with the bones already in their correct place and only to fix some inadequacies of the pose, you dont have this problem when using shape keys after bones.
These can also be used in Unity for game development:
- Unity imports shape keys as blend shapes.
- Select your model in the Project window, and in the Inspector, you will see a Skinned Mesh Renderer component.
- In the Skinned Mesh Renderer, you will find the blend shapes listed. You can manipulate these blend shapes through scripts or animation clips.
Wow! I never imagined shape keys being used so effortlessly and conveniently. They've always been a bit of a hassle to work with, especially when dealing with a large number of them. However, this approach changes the game entirely.
The models I'm working on won't benefit from this, but I'm still listening just because this guy has a really soothing voice
shape key rigging is how you create photorealistic facial animations. It doesn't end up choppy because you can blend all of the shape keys together at the same time. You can even use apple ar or any facial tracking but you do need to create at least 52 blendshapes which takes forever :((((
However, this method of rigging the shape keys uses the distance to the images, so as the selector moves over the images it turns on any shape keys it passes over, that's what causes the "choppy" animation in this instance.
try Face it addon
Yo this rocks! I was over here trying to figure out how to calculate a drivers equation where after going a certain distance, the driver dips from one shape key and rises in the next, but seeing that there's straight up a "Distance Between Two Objects" driver is SO much more convenient. Thank you so much for helping me figure this out!
OML what a savior. cant imagine how on earth you figured out how to do all this but glad you did!
Omg this is insane was tearing my hair out at how daunting face animation was this deserves an award, amazing tutorial and reignited the flame for animating please keep making these tutorials! ❤
I'm going to save this video to come back to in the future, this seems really useful! Thanks for making it
personally i would recommend both rigged and shapekeyed .. shapekeyed for expressions and the rigged for subtle after motions with bendy bones (dynamic phone or physbones)
Yeah, that's a valid approach!
i like this in principle (it's similar to blendspaces in game engines), but by using snap, you're basically robbing yourself. you could easily smoothly blend between multiple shape keys by arranging each section in a 2d space and have no snapping, thus creating basically an infinite variation in face shapes, which would work for both cartoony and realistic animation :)
its the MOST underrated thing ive ever seen
I really appreciate this, I was waiting for this tutorial.
It's a game changer for the "Stylized Look" that this method can add on expression...Thanks for sharing your awesome work!
I appreciate that you took the time to make a tutorial on how to do something, while not just shoving a addon down our throats. Like- “This Method requires this addon, and can only be done with this addon.”
Absolutely stunning man!
I’ll go an support you when I can! Even if I don’t plan on using the addon version.
massive props for making a tutorial on how to set the basic version of the addon you made up yourself while explaining how the addon works and can be used. just truly amazing!
im an indie dev and not yet very fluent in animation. what are the potential downsides of shapekey animation in a stylized context?
This is a really hard topic to explain in such a clear way. Great work!!
Awesome, I'm buying the add-on, the work put on explaining and creating it is just superb.
Thank you!
I'm new to blender. I don't fully get it now but I know I'll understand it later.
Thank you very much.
10:48 you have cleared my doubt on a whole another level especially about the drivers
Awesome video! Two things:
1. Despite the couple negative comments about the method. This is EXACTLY what I needed for my project, which did NOT need the complexity of rig. Simple. Straightforward. Got me to my objective way faster than I thought. THANKS.
2. I love the model style of the black hair model in this video. Did you make this from scratch? Can you do a video how to make something like this?
omg that adon is gonna be a life saver....
me.. animating complex facial motion with about 20 RAW blendshapes. no bone drivers... just the raw shapekey values 🙃
This is awesome! I really like how you explain some steps so we learn how everything actually works and not just how to use everything!
On the refrain of "shape keys animate linearly" - they don't have to. You can set interpolation of a driver to be non-linear, as well as just non-linear for set keyframes.
This method is everywhere in VRchat. Very easy to use!
That's an amazing addon but you really should show people how to go through and make one of these stylized models for this. Cause I would love to do this cause it seems a lot easier than 3d facial expression modelling, but I have no idea how to make these.
I'll add it to my list of videos to make!
@@VertexArcade Please do! These stylized models would be much easier for people to make than more detailed ones!
Bro went and created an animation editor with models...
And, its probably universal! lol This dude went omega brain.
Ive never seen this method explained more clearly, excellent video 👍
Id imagen if you want more controll and to smoothly blend the shapes, instead of bringing the selecter to the shapes, bring the shapes to the selecter.
You can probably set it up so all the images are in a circle around the selecter, and just bring them in towards the middle to turn on and off those indervisual shapes.
Then there is no need to worry about passing over blendshapes to get to another, or mixing ones on oposit sides ^-^
Id imagen it could be made as a "base" in like a clock shape, then you only need to add the shapekeys that are in use for that part (say the eyes) and you can leave whatever is spare blank, just changing the shape its blending and the plain's texture to indicate the shape. ^o^
I have to try this!!
Did you ever do this? What you described is exactly what I’m looking for!!
Que tutorial mais perfeito! Achei um pouco avançado porque não tenho mta familiaridade com os drivers, mas vou tentar aprender, com certeza!
Parabéns pelo vídeo, valeu mesmo! 😊
This is life changing knowledge for me!! I had no idea it can be done in that way!
this was a very helpful video and lesson. Shape key driver setup is so nice looking being able to have a preview of the emotion is very handy
awesome tutorial✌, shape key or morphing workflow has been around forever in other 3d programs its very good not just for faces, blender has it too but most people will just use that default bone face rig thingy
Wow that's an amzing tutorial, well done.
This extremely high quality. It helps so much thank you !!!
This is a really good tutorial!! Super clear thank youuu
10 out of 10
This is great, thanks!
minor nitpick, but no, this isn't how most 2d animation is done, i know that you didn't mean anything bad by it, but by reducing the painstaking process of hand-drawn 2d animation to "picking and choosing" you're kinda contributing to the idea of "the computer does everything" which i know that as an animator you're annoyed by too.
anyway, I think the reason a lot of animators like to have this absolute control over their work is that, unlike real life, every frame should be controlled, handled carefully and generally be pleasing to look at. this mindset is what leads to great moving pictures that also look like great normal pictures.
I completely understand, I didn't mean to undersell the 2D process, I was mostly talking about the tween style animation that it widely used in TV shows on a tight schedule. Hand drawn animation is definitely its own art form
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing this amazing tool!
it's great
it really is.
I'm pretty sure Minecraft Story Mode did something with the Mouths. Is this similar?
Very nicely presented!
Cool addon but I can't work with face rigs only using blendshapes, it's too repetitive and all the blending is linear. Adding bones on top of blendshapes can make sure that you're hitting your nicely sculpted poses but you can give more variety by offseting things using the bones, and you can create nice arcs for things like mouth transitions.
Yeah, there's a preferred use case for this and that would be very stylised choppy animation that doesn't necessarily require blending between frames. You could get creative with the shape keys though, like in these examples. It's a different way of thinking about animation but I think there's use cases for both methods. ruclips.net/video/439OBQl7Pb8/видео.htmlsi=68uqAKIyMky01dcy&t=695
Gonna head to sleep after This xD:
Just Search: live2d mouth chart
Repetive Hell Yea!: But "Bad Results cause of X Reason" i disagree... since Live2D uses a Very Similar Workflow which can get Very Smooth Results if Done Propertly...
(and Yes i know there are Differences between them but its Close Enough that you can probably get a Really Good Result just Using them...)
You Should do a thing showing from opening blender to getting to the point where you can edit the face...
You are God-sent. BIG THANK YOU.
Just note that this will not work with more complex faces, as shape keys animate linearly, and thus cannot make curved movements.
For example, a model with giant eyes, where lids need to be rotated down to close - would clip through eye balls if done with shape keys.
Yeah, although you can get creative with the way you make shape keys. If I ever needed some curved motion, I would create an intermediate shape key, and then blend from the open blink to the intermediate then to the closed blink, it's a little more work, but it is possible.
I've seen some videos where people actually separate the XYZ coordinates of a shape key and then animate them using drivers. It's not the most flexible approach but it can be done
a very useful tutorial, thank you!
That's just awesome! Thank you so much for the lesson!
Hi, can you please make a tutorial showing how you created the head? Greetings René
Amazing video
Great work! Subbed!
This really got me thinking too. I mostly do abstraction and motion graphics, zero character work. This same method might work with a selector that's being randomly moved via geometry nodes. This might be a workflow for creating seemingly greater variation between multiplied models...
Thanks you so much for this tutorial!
Used to have something like this I used in 3ds max but have had to switch to blender as of today due to my free licence ending if this works in the current blender on steam I will be purchasing.
Thanks for your time.
Updated I found a way to load old ver of blender onto my steam deck. so current ver isnt an issue just I have run into issues when trying to buy your product from your website
Update 2 I used blender market its taking some getting used to but seems to all be working thank you
Awsome!! great applied for expression
Magnificent!
my brother in christ this *is* a rig
Super awesome!!! 💖💖
Yeah we use to learn facial animation like that on 3DS max, it's called morpher in Max like in morphing. very easy and user friendly but efectively less realistic on realistic caracter.
Hey, thank you for that video! I just wanted to ask if that method is exportable into Unreal Engine? Looks really cool!
It's a great video! Thanks for helping a lot!
Great tutorial! Any plans on making a video on how to make stylized faces like this?
Rigging isn't my strong suit so probably not. I can make stylised models, but rigging them correctly for animation just isn't my forte. If I really needed to rig a face I would just use something like the FaceIt addon that generates one automatically
I was wondering this thing ! thanks
This was great! Thank you :) is this something that can be exported to a video game engine?
Thanks. Good method but as you said, the selector moving between expressions can mess up the transition, touching unwanted expressions in the process. Also, if your selector is an object and not a bone, then the animation won't port properly to game engines.
Very informative. Helped a lot
actually i said your technique was horrible but it might be good, hold on, give me an other 3 hours, i'll try to make this work (edit ; no it's so fun to do it took me 20 minutes, thanks, i subbed)
lovely, i have to (re)build this :-)
Wow, it's super.
this is fire
Heyy I LOVE your Gwen Spider-Verse Model! How do you add the 2D lines for the facial expressions??? a tutorial on that would be sooo awesome! thank you! SUBED.
They're just tiny meshes that I put in front of the model! I'm actually making a tutorial on it right now! Different ways to get line art and I cover that method!
@@VertexArcade Omg no way!? Thank you sm, I am so excited! Ive been looking for a tut on this forever!
great tutorials
Deffinately looks like the style I want to use. Can I put in my own svg files, and swap them for different character setups?
Do you mean the images? Yeah, you can set up any character with shape keys and they can have their own set of images that match to them, then you can have more characters with separate shape keys and separate rigs
Hello, I'm really interested in this tutorial I just have one question: Are the eyebrows and face joined or parented together?
They are joined together! For the shape keys to work correctly they should all be one object, you could keep them as separate objects but then you would have to have the same shape keys for each object and then assign the drivers. It works but it's a little more complicated
@@VertexArcade Thank you ♥
Its there a were of form to make the controls three times with the same model?? You Know, maybe 1 controller for the right eye, 1 controller for the left eye, and another controller for the 2 eyes at the same time??
You could always separate the shape keys into Left and Right using a Vertex Group, then create a second Selector and repeat the same process, this time using the distance between the new selector and the image to control the left or right shape key, then you can move them independently and if you want to control them together you can just move both of the selectors at once
Great tutorial!
Will your addons work fine on newest Blender version?
Just a quick question. How did you get the mouth to open?
Nice!
Yoooo How did you make that spiderverse material for gwen? Not like the hatching or halftone but like the base material used on her face?
It's just a basic toon shader, mix a diffuse shaded into a shader to rgb node, then using a color ramp you can control the sharpness of the shadows
thank you!@@VertexArcade
I hope you eventually make a V2 with smoothing
What do you mean by smoothing?
14:25:@@VertexArcade
11:40 this is the furthest I get, but when I move the selector nothing changes. (Blender 4.2) I know RUclips comments aren't the best place for troubleshooting but I can't figure out what I possibly missed.
whenever i try to seperate the face into L or R i keep getting an "a is not defined error"
I removed the a from the script
the error isn't there anymore but the left and right sides still dont generate
Yeah that was a silly error that got through (but I uploaded a newer version without that error). A selects everything in Blender so I was on the wrong window when I pressed it.
Hmm the separate Shape Keys should work and it works on my end, can you send me a message on Twitter/Blender market with your issue?
Just quick troubleshooting, make sure your model is selected, you have chosen the category that you want to separate and that your shape keys are named correctly, click the Rename/Validate button and see if it helps
Isnt this just blendshapes? Or Morphs been around for decades.
Is it possible to work with 2 or more characters in a scene. If the answer is yes, what is the best way of achieving that.
does anyone know how one would control the direction of the eye with this type of rig?
It's the exact same process as the facial expressions, however this time instead of smiling,frowning etc, you make a bunch of different shape keys for the eye direction, so Eyes Up, Eyes Left, Right etc. then you create the image planes the exact same way, but this time put them in a grid, so the Default eye position at the center, eyes Right to the right, eyes left to the left, Eyes up at the top. The only difference is the shape keys, the rest of it is exactly the same
is it possible to bake these animations so it can be exported into unity or unreal?
There's no need to bake them, if you keyframe the shape keys they'll be exported when you export your model/rig!
@@VertexArcade ty!
you are really Osm man
Can the rig be transported in unreal engine and also works with this addon?
No, the addon is made for Blender. If you animate using the rig it'll keyframe the shape keys and those can be imported into Unreal, but the rig itself can't
@@VertexArcade damn
Hi i am using this addon , i have a problem with linking the character to another blender scene the contollers is not effecting the mesh anymore if you know the solution for a proper linking or appending i would be very gratefull
Did you find a solution ? And is it possible to work with 2 or more characters in the same scene ?
@@enostakanaka9126 i didnt find a solution so i hadt to remove this from my workflow
I did what u did but for some reason, it doesn't have a mixed expression instead went from the expression then the default then the expression what should I do.
OK! But you don't explained how to do left/right parts of mimic separately.
The left and right parts are tricky to do. It's the exact same process but this time we have a second Selector and and a second shape key, then we just add the drivers for this second shape key and the selector and it will control the other side of the face. It was too complicated to go over in this video
Hello! I practice realtime animation in blender and have been looking for somewhat of a puppeteer tool for it. Daz3d has the best one but this interests me. Does this work on bones? Can I store multiple poses and then blend between them?
Animation is so hard. Is there anyway to do animation for beginners?
Great video, the technical part lost me a bit. Guess I need to thoroughly research drivers before attempting to touch this.
Can you make a vid showing how to use your add on plzz
After I add the driver on x location my "mouth selector" doesn't move on the x at all.
What happened if you export fbx animations like that? Is there still face animations?
Yeah! As long as you enable the Shape Key/morph checkbox when you export, your shape keys will be part of your animations in your fbx file
Bro im tripping so hard right now. how tf do you move the skin like that?? you didnt even say.. mine just selects vertices and moves them around making it distorted. how do you move them collectively like that?? im using the same tool
Using "Proportional Editing Objects" in "Edition Mode", the option its under "Animation" and next to "Snap"
If you press G and turn the mouse wheel, you scale the radius
Is there any other software out there that has these inbuilt?! Like C4D, Maya, 3DS Max, etc?
No, this is a custom built setup for Blender. I've never used the other programs so you might be able to set it up but this driver and shape key method is Blender only
Why m'y driver value goes from 0 To 9 (thé number of pictures) instead of staying 0 on the selected image?
Hey where is that gwen model from? Need it