Creating Expressions for Non Standard Characters

The Facial Profile Editor allows for adding facial expression data to a Humanoid character. You can use either the mesh-modifying features in Character Creator or an external 3D tool to create blend-shapes for generating expression sliders.

Basic Workflow

1. Create a Humanoid character.
   
2. Use the tools at the top of the panel to modify the face shape of the character.
   
   • Utilizing the Edit Mesh tools
   • Utilizing the Morphing Sliders to set facial expressions
   • Utilizing ZBrush to create morphing sources
   • Utilizing the Proportion feature
3. Pick the appropriate item category under Expression or Viseme nodes from the tree-view.
   
4. Update and save the face shape into a slider at the right pane.
   • Setting Head Movement Data
   • Setting Eye Movement Data
   • Setting Jaw Movement Data
   • Setting Lips Shape Data
   • Setting Face Muscles Movement Data
   • Setting Lipsync Data
5. Repeat the same steps to complete the expression and lipsync modification.
   
6. However, if you want to make the shape into a custom slider, then refer to the following section for more information:
   • Create Custom Category with Morphing Slider