twillis opened this issue on Apr 21, 2001 ยท 7 posts
twillis posted Sun, 22 April 2001 at 4:31 PM
Attached Link: http://www.tonywhite.net
Kixum, nice eye! Though I'm starting to feel like I'm being watched. To answer your questions. I'm still learning about textures, so the pupil is a separate object; it's a sphere that's been squished (a lot) in the y-direction. A disk would probably work, too. I just made sure the hotpoint/center was at the radius of the eyeball. I made the pupil a separate object, in case I wanted to animate separately, like make animate a size change that doesn't affect the rest of the eye. The book (The Animator's Workbook, by Tony White; turns out he has a web page, see above link) only uses the top lid for blinks, although both lids for squinting. Of course, this book is about drawn animation, so I'm still trying to figure out which "rules" apply to 3D. But, testing on my own eye, it does seem like the bottom lid does not move much, if at all, for a blink (I need to start keeping a mirror on my desk; I'm getting tired of sticking my finger in my eye to see what it's doing). --Terri