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# 1 28-12-2006 , 11:18 AM
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Blendshape question...

Hi everyone.

I'm hoping you can help me, I've been looking at blendshapes for a character I'm making.

I've drawn some inspiration from a lip-syncing tutorial I found in an old issue of 3D world mag. The tutorial is by Stefan Marjoram, a creative director at Aardman.

He provided a file (it's non-commercial!) of a character and the five basic mouth shapes (ah, b/m/p, oo, ee and f/v)

When you open the film up and turn on the layer's visibility, you'll see what I mean.

My question is that he's made all the blend shapes and managed to move the teeth as well. Now I know, from a failed experiment, that you can't deform a face then teeth and still expect it to work - it didn't for me...

So how did he do it? Did he make a cluster and assign the membership of a tooth the cluster? Is that even possible? Any ideas?

Many thanks

James