Facial Animation and Lip Sync in Maya 7
Learn innovative and time-saving facial animation and lip sync techniques in Maya with over 6.5 hours of project-driven training. Perfect for intermediate artists. Sofware required: Maya 7.
What you'll learn
Popular highlights include: Animating to Dialogue; Lip Syncing; Principles of Emotion; Referencing Footage; Mechanics of Facial Animation; Timing and Spacing; Anticipation; Animating Arcs; Pose to Pose; In-betweening; Follow-through; Head Subtleties; Facial Expressions; Graph Editor; Working with Shot Camera; Animating with Simplicity; Show Buffer Curves; Editing Tangents. Software required: Maya 7.
Table of contents
- Setting up the Scene 2m
- Intro to Warm up Lesson 1: Animating Head Turns; Blinks; and Eye Movements 4m
- Keying the Extremes of the Heads Turns 5m
- Adding the in-betweens: Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Head Turns 7m
- Adding the in-betweens: Final Touch Ups for the Head Turns 7m
- Keying the Arcs: Animating the Head Bops 6m
- Keying the Arcs: Tweaking the Head Bops 4m
- Keying the Arcs: Adding Personality to the Head Turns 9m
- Animating the Neck 8m
- Animating the Eyes 12m
- Animating Blinks 8m
- Intro to Warm up Lesson 2: Animating Facial Expressions 5m
- Keying the Extremes of the Facial Expressions 9m
- Adding the in-betweens: Fixing the Timing and Spacing 9m
- Adding the in-betweens: Fine Tuning the Animation 11m
- Completing Warm up Lesson 2: Final Modifications 10m
- Intro to Main Lesson: Animating to Dialogue 4m
- Beginning the Jaw Animation 9m
- Completing the Jaw Extremes 6m
- Initial in-between Pass of the Jaw 9m
- Finishing the Vertical Movements of the Jaw 8m
- Horizontal Movements of the Jaw 9m
- Finishing the Jaw Movements 10m
- Keying the Extremes for Major Lip Shapes: Blocking in Primary Phonemes and Expressions 8m
- Keying the Extremes for Major Lip Shapes: Finishing the Blocking in Pass 7m
- Animating the in-betweens of Major Lip Shapes: Defining Primary Phonemes and Expressions 9m
- Animating the in-betweens of Major Lip Shapes: Final Tweaks 8m
- Keying the Mouth Rolls 6m
- Animating the Tongue 6m
- Defining Secondary Phonemes: First Pass 3m
- Defining Secondary Phonemes: Second Pass 5m
- Defining Secondary Phonemes: Completing the Lip Animation 8m
- Starting to Animate the Neck Movements 10m
- Adding the in-betweens to the Neck Movements 10m
- Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Neck Movements 7m
- Finishing the Neck Animation 8m
- Starting to Animate the Head Movements 7m
- Animating the in-betweens for the Head Movements 7m
- Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Head Movements 9m
- Finishing the Head Animation 6m
- Animating the Major Brow Movements: Keying the Extremes 6m
- Animating the Major Brow Movements: In-between Pass 8m
- Animating the Major Brow Movements: Finalizing Primary Brow Animation 3m
- Exaggerating Brow Movements: Defining Expressions 4m
- Exaggerating Brow Movements: Tweaking the Timing and Spacing 9m
- Adding Personality with the Brows 5m
- Setting the Extremes for the Eye Movements 4m
- Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Eyes 5m
- Adding Appeal to the Eye Movements 5m
- Animating the Blinks: Adding Blinks and Modifying Expressions 7m
- Animating the Blinks: Finalizing the Timing and Spacing 4m
- Animating the Bottom Eye Lids 9m
- Final Adjustments 4m
About the author
Delano works avidly as an animation author at Pluralsight. Starting his career at animation studios like Shilo, Delano has developed a strong passion for his talents. His animation and rigging background help him teach and create some of the most-watched training on Pluralsight. A few of his favorite projects that he has contributed to include: Character Interaction in Maya and in Softimage, Rigging the Human Face in Maya, Rigging Sea Creatures in Maya, and Rigging and Animating Transforming... more