Digital Tutors - Facial Animation and Lip Sync in Maya (T0103)

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
	Total Run Time:	6:14:13