Jun 16, 2009

Digital-tutors: Facial Animation and Lip Sync in Maya


Digital-tutors: Facial Animation and Lip Sync in Maya | 713 Mb

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.

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
Lesson Outline:

1. Introduction and project overview 0:51
2. Setting up the scene 1:43
3. Intro to Warm Up Lesson 1: animating head turns, blinks, and eye movements 4:26
4. Keying the extremes of the heads turns 5:18
5. Adding the in-betweens: adjusting the timing and spacing of the head turns 6:30
6. Adding the in-betweens: final touch ups for the head turns 7:12
7. Keying the arcs: animating the head bops 6:21
8. Keying the arcs: tweaking the head bops 4:18
9. Keying the arcs: adding personality to the head turns 9:26
10. Animating the neck 7:31
11. Animating the eyes 12:07
12. Animating blinks 7:55
13. Intro to Warm Up Lesson 2: animating facial expressions 5:06
14. Keying the extremes of the facial expressions 8:40
15. Adding the in-betweens: fixing the timing and spacing 9:23
16. Adding the in-betweens: fine tuning the animation 11:13
17. Completing Warm Up Lesson 2: final modifications 9:36
18. Intro to Main Lesson: animating to dialogue 6:41
19. Beginning the jaw animation 8:55
20. Completing the jaw extremes 6:21
21. Initial in-between pass of the jaw 8:47
22. Finishing the vertical movements of the jaw 8:18
23. Horizontal movements of the jaw 8:32
24. Finishing the jaw movements 10:20
25. Keying the extremes for Major Lip Shapes: blocking in primary phonemes and expressions 8:25
26. Keying the extremes for Major Lip Shapes: finishing the blocking in pass 6:30
27. Animating the in-betweens of Major Lip Shapes: defining primary phonemes and expressions 8:32
28. Animating the in-betweens of Major Lip Shapes: final tweaks 8:27
29. Keying the mouth rolls 5:57
30. Animating the tongue 5:44
31. Defining secondary phonemes: first pass 3:22
32. Defining secondary phonemes: second pass 4:40
33. Defining secondary phonemes: completing the lip animation 8:04
34. Starting to animate the neck movements 10:19
35. Adding the in-betweens to the neck movements 10:15
36. Adjusting the timing and spacing of the neck movements 7:23
37. Finishing the neck animation 8:05
38. Starting to animate the head movements 6:57
39. Animating the in-betweens for the head movements 7:15
40. Adjusting the timing and spacing of the head movements 9:24
41. Finishing the head animation 5:55
42. Animating the major brow movements: keying the extremes 5:38
43. Animating the major brow movements: in-between pass 7:40
44. Animating the major brow movements: finalizing primary brow animation 2:44
45. Exaggerating brow movements: defining expressions 4:18
46. Exaggerating brow movements: tweaking the timing and spacing 8:41
47. Adding personality with the brows 5:01
48. Setting the extremes for the eye movements 4:18
49. Adjusting the timing and spacing of the eyes 5:20
50. Adding appeal to the eye movements 5:22
51. Animating the blinks: adding blinks and modifying expressions 7:05
52. Animating the blinks: finalizing the timing and spacing 4:05
53. Animating the bottom eye lids 8:35
54. Final adjustments 4:17


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