Face Animation Tutorial

Introduction

This is my tutorial on how to animate facial expressions with morpher modifire in3ds Max.I must warn you that befour you star this tutorial you allready have to have skill to create your character face. In This tutorial i will show how to create morpher and control it.

Step 1

You will need to start by loading your face in to 3d Max. For this tutorial i created a low poly draft cartoony character.

Step 2

Now what we will need to do is create an expression for your character. if you want him smile or to close hes eyes or move his eye brows anything you can think of. to do so copy your character like i did on the picture

Step 3

now modify your copy and change whatever you want, i made my character smile, you can do it by simply moving verteses !!Make shore you don't delete any of your polygons or create any new polygons other way the morpher wont work!!.

Step 4

Repeat the same thing again but this time make different expression. then again until you will get all faceal expression that you want. I usaly make about 20-30 morphers but for this tutorial i made 10. Also, if you make a dialog in your scene its a good idea to make character to say any sounds like "A" or "O" than you can easaly make him talk realistic by lip singing.

Step 5

Also before you star make shore you delete all turbo smooth or mesh smooth modifier from your models

Step 6

now select your main character the one you created in first place and go to modifier list and select "morpher"