Hi all, I would really appreciate some advice on a few lectures we are preparing for the students. We need to introduce students to blend shapes, Weight maps and ultimately tie this into a facial rigging class. I'm a little confused on what approach I should take - I'm not a huge fan of blend shapes for the face, I like the joint based system - but as a compromise I tend to introduce both systems to the students - Adam Sale's videos from a few years back in Softimage is a good example of the approach we demo - as it has the bonus of using ICE in a simple way for students to understand, whilst also allowing them to quickly reuse many of the tools and nodes to recreate other ctrls - https://vimeo.com/26980579. However, in Maya, I'm wondering if this is the best way to go, can I achieve this in the node editor - I assume the animation ctrls should be easy - but can we access points on the mesh as easily; paint weight maps to modulate a single shape across the face etc.
Searching online for Maya approaches results in too much noise - too many results. Most don't look great. Can you share some approaches - maybe point to a few resources that an old lecturer can use? My students are reasonably savvy - but still early in their studies - so need something that is digestible without a hundreds custom tools being implemented. Hope you can help! Sofronis (Saf) Efstathiou Postgraduate Framework Leader and BFX Competition & Festival Director Computer Animation Academic Group National Centre for Computer Animation Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Tel: +44 (0) 1202 965805 Profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/sofronisefstathiou Student Work: http://www.youtube.com/NCCA3DAnimation http://www.youtube.com/NCCADigitalFX http://www.youtube.com/NCCAAnimation [Description: Description: C:\Users\sefstathiou\Pictures\nccalogo.jpg]<http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/> [Description: Description: C:\Users\sefstathiou\Documents\My Dropbox\Work_Files\NCCA\VFXandAnimation_competition\BFX_website\BFX_Website\bfx_logo_facebook.png] <http://www.bfxfestival.com/> [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Images/QueensAwardLogo.jpg] Awarded for world-class computer animation teaching with wide scientific and creative applications BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.
