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Full Face Control Puppeteering

The Full Face control Puppeteering uses presets for puppeteering and recording expressions.

ClosedUsing Full Face Control Puppeteering
  1. Make sure the actor has been applied with a voice with either idle or auto motion.

    The actor has an applied voice and auto motion
  2. Go to the time frame where you want to blend custom facial expressions to the existing motion.
  3. Click the Face Puppet button on the tool bar.
  4. Pick a desired profile from the Face Animation Profile list.
  5. Choose a preset in the Full Face Control list.
    ClosedNote:
    • The full face profiles give you a matching personality with a unique animation style.
    • It is highly recommended that you use the first two, 1_Human_Male and 2_Human_Female, profiles for the actor with real human face in order to get higher realism, gentle animations; the rest are for cartoon characters with more exaggerative animations.
  6. You may need to preview the animations before the real recording. There are two methods to doing so:
    ClosedStandard Method:
    1. Click the Preview button.
    2. Move your mouse cursor to the center of your display so that you can have enough space to move mouse up, down, left and right for puppeteering.
    3. Press the Space Bar to start previewing. A crosshair shows where the mouse cursor is, to indicate the position of a neutral expression.
    ClosedShortcut Method:
    1. Move your mouse cursor to the center of your display so that you can have enough space to move mouse up, down, left and right for puppeteering.
    2. Press the Space Bar to start previewing. A crosshair shows where the mouse cursor is, to indicate the position of a neutral expression.
  7. Move your mouse to puppet. The selected facial features will then be triggered to move with the mouse cursor. Press the Space bar again to stop previewing.
  8. If you are satisfied with the results in the preview mode, then you may start to record with two methods:
    ClosedStandard Method:
    1. Click the Record button.
    2. Move your mouse cursor to the center of your display so that you can have enough space to move mouse up, down, left and right for puppeteering.
    3. Press the Space Bar to start previewing (Press the Enter key to start the half-speed recording mode). A crosshair shows where the mouse cursor is, to indicate the position of a neutral expression.
    ClosedShortcut Method:
    1. Move your mouse cursor to the center of your display so that you have enough space to move mouse up, down, left and right for puppeteering.
    2. Press the Ctrl + Shift + Space Bar for Windows or Option ⌥ + Space Bar for Mac to start recording. A crosshair shows where the mouse cursor is, to indicate the position of a neutral expression.
  9. Move your mouse to puppet. The animations will then be recorded into a clip. Press the Space bar again to stop recording.
  10. Once the recording stops, a motion clip with the entire recorded expression will be stored in the Motion Track.