Forum: Animation


Subject: Bit o' Mimic silliness

Redfern opened this issue on Apr 27, 2002 ยท 6 posts


Little_Dragon posted Sat, 27 April 2002 at 8:27 PM

Of all the voices I've imagined for Giger's alien, Marvin the Martian wasn't one of them. :)

Lately, I've been studying ERC, EMC, EasyPose, and other advanced Poser techniques. Thanks to this knowledge, I was able to make Lemurtek's Lionheart character Mimic-ready.

Lionheart speaks! (MPEG format, 230KB)

Lionheart has a posable jaw body-part which is separate from the head. Mimic looks for the OpenLips morph in the head section, so normally there would be no way to make him Mimic-ready. But I used ERC (Extended Remote Control) to create a dummy dial (named OpenLips) in the head, and linked it to the jaw's x-axis rotation dial.

I still have to do the phoneme morphs: two of each, for the head (upper lip) and jaw (lower lip), with ERC linking the head morphs to the jaw morphs.