This is the last week of this term. This week we finished the 3D lip-syncing face model we worked on over the last few weeks. Over these weeks we modeled, textured, rigged, and shape-blended this model to get a lip-sync to a video that we were allowed to choose ourselves. I choose this video of this actor saying: ‘THE BIGGER THEY ARE…. THE BIGGER… THEY… ARE…’ This was the first ‘quote’ I could think of and thought it would be fun.
I realized while creating the rig for the lip-syncing animation that I choose a rather difficult thing to create a lip-sync over. In the video, the man is screaming a lot because of this a lot of the frames are blurry. Also, a screaming face makes a lot of the skin stretched which makes me use a lot of blend shapes to get the right facial expressions.
Looking back on this I think I could have done a little bit better. The render of the face is a little bit too matted for my taste and not really like good skin and the facial expressions are not expressed enough, I am missing a few wrinkles at some parts and some more eye movement. For the movement of the face I think it lines up quite well with the yelling that is going on and all around it is a good try for my first try but it still needs a lot of improvement.