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grepico:
OK got a good toon and I want to add an animated mouth (Google image search for "Reddy Kilowatt", that's the guy).  His head is a perfect sphere and he has a "cartoonie" mouth.  How do I add the mouth, I've tried manually manipulating points and faces of the sphere but that seems to always end in disaster.

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

grepico

kreator:
You want to morph the mouth, read the manual on morphing to manipulate the points with morphs

hihosilver:
You're going to want to use morph targets as Kreator suggested, in combination with Phonemes.  Phonemes are basically the smallest sound type you can make.  For different sounds, there is a different mouth shape.  Here's a great example of phonemes you can use as a reference:

Good luck!

grepico:
Thanks guys, but I think you're way ahead of me.  I need to know how to actually create the mouth, right now I have a sphere for a head and it's perfectly smooth where the mouth is supposed to be.  I've only been at this for about a week so I'm sorry to be askin such noob questions, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thx

kreator:
Haha well yeah that is a noob question! sorry grepico... you need to go into point edit mode if you want to cut your sphere up!... what level have u got to?  are u still using tubes spheres etc to make objects, characters? perhaps you could post a pic ... did`nt u ask questions on Multiboning?

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