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Eraser Man
ENSONIQ5:
Thanks guys.
Floyd86: The facial expressions were interesting to make. I drew a series of expressions in Corel Draw and exported them as BMP's, which I used to generate transparency maps for a series of materials, each black in both ambient and diffuse, with zero specular. When applied to a flat plane, the plane becomes like a sheet of transparent film with the facial expression on it. I copied the plane as a set of individual objects, each with a different facial expression material applied to it.
In scene mode, I added all the facial expression "overlays" into the same physical space relative to the eraser, positioned over the blank face area. Each overlay's visibility was set to "off". Then, when it came to animating, I could change the expression by keyframing the visibility of each expression overlay, taking care not to overlap them or leave blank frames.
Once the scene was set up, animating was easy, so early on in the construction of this project I created a template scene, with the eraser man and all his faces in position, as well as the table top and light setup. Then, for each new scene, I just had to import this basic scene into the project again, rename it, and I had a new blank scene ready to go.
floyd86:
hmmm... indeed interesting. I already thought that was the best solution: keyframing the visibilty. But maybe you used a different better method.
Though this technic worked out great, I love the facial expressions: very basics and still you feel the character coming to live.
falloffalot:
That is a fantastic piece of work.
The expressions on his face are great; the story line is simple, original and funny.
My 8 year old will love that when I show him and hopefully inspire him to continue with his animating.
Well done Ensoniq5
VBSmiles:
Great vid! quite entertaining also :)
CowTail:
Nice, I liked his little slow-motion tumble in the beginning :)
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