What could possibly look more ridiculous than a grown up man in his early twenties pulling faces at the computer screen, much like the ones seen below?
If anyone caught sight of the inane frowns I’m making here lately, I’d surely be sent to the doctor, if not shut away altogether!
But it’s all for a good cause: Tatsu is now fully setup for animation using Final Rig and the last two days or so were spent creating blendshapes for his facial animation.
Who else but myself could I get to act out these excessively exaggerated mimes?! At times I feel a bit like the infamous Emotion Eric, only that it’s (fortunately) not my mug on display in the end.
Regardless, I’m having huge fun doing this, every once in a while bursting out in laughter at the incredible grimaces Tatsu is capable of doing.
He has quite a broad range of facial expressions, making him able to convey all sorts of different emotions from various states of happiness to the most sinister evilness conceivable. His dominant character trait lies closer to the latter, so that’s where my main focus lies as you can probably tell from the shots above…
