Facial Animation and Lip Sync in Maya 7

—Introduction and Project Overview 0m 51s

—Setting up the Scene 1m 43s
—Intro to Warm up Lesson 1: Animating Head Turns; Blinks; and Eye Movements 4m 26s
—Keying the Extremes of the Heads Turns 5m 18s
—Adding the in-betweens: Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Head Turns 6m 30s
—Adding the in-betweens: Final Touch Ups for the Head Turns 7m 12s
—Keying the Arcs: Animating the Head Bops 6m 21s
—Keying the Arcs: Tweaking the Head Bops 4m 18s
—Keying the Arcs: Adding Personality to the Head Turns 9m 26s
—Animating the Neck 7m 31s
—Animating the Eyes 12m 7s
—Animating Blinks 7m 55s
—Intro to Warm up Lesson 2: Animating Facial Expressions 5m 6s
—Keying the Extremes of the Facial Expressions 8m 40s
—Adding the in-betweens: Fixing the Timing and Spacing 9m 23s
—Adding the in-betweens: Fine Tuning the Animation 11m 13s
—Completing Warm up Lesson 2: Final Modifications 9m 36s
—Intro to Main Lesson: Animating to Dialogue 4m 18s
—Beginning the Jaw Animation 8m 55s
—Completing the Jaw Extremes 6m 21s
—Initial in-between Pass of the Jaw 8m 47s
—Finishing the Vertical Movements of the Jaw 8m 18s
—Horizontal Movements of the Jaw 8m 32s
—Finishing the Jaw Movements 10m 19s
—Keying the Extremes for Major Lip Shapes: Blocking in Primary Phonemes and Expressions 8m 25s
—Keying the Extremes for Major Lip Shapes: Finishing the Blocking in Pass 6m 30s
—Animating the in-betweens of Major Lip Shapes: Defining Primary Phonemes and Expressions 8m 32s
—Animating the in-betweens of Major Lip Shapes: Final Tweaks 8m 27s
—Keying the Mouth Rolls 5m 57s
—Animating the Tongue 5m 44s
—Defining Secondary Phonemes: First Pass 3m 22s
—Defining Secondary Phonemes: Second Pass 4m 40s
—Defining Secondary Phonemes: Completing the Lip Animation 8m 4s
—Starting to Animate the Neck Movements 10m 19s
—Adding the in-betweens to the Neck Movements 10m 15s
—Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Neck Movements 7m 23s
—Finishing the Neck Animation 8m 5s
—Starting to Animate the Head Movements 6m 57s
—Animating the in-betweens for the Head Movements 7m 15s
—Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Head Movements 9m 24s
—Finishing the Head Animation 5m 55s
—Animating the Major Brow Movements: Keying the Extremes 5m 38s
—Animating the Major Brow Movements: In-between Pass 7m 40s
—Animating the Major Brow Movements: Finalizing Primary Brow Animation 2m 44s
—Exaggerating Brow Movements: Defining Expressions 4m 18s
—Exaggerating Brow Movements: Tweaking the Timing and Spacing 8m 41s
—Adding Personality with the Brows 5m 1s
—Setting the Extremes for the Eye Movements 4m 18s
—Adjusting the Timing and Spacing of the Eyes 5m 20s
—Adding Appeal to the Eye Movements 5m 22s
—Animating the Blinks: Adding Blinks and Modifying Expressions 7m 5s
—Animating the Blinks: Finalizing the Timing and Spacing 4m 5s
—Animating the Bottom Eye Lids 8m 35s
—Final Adjustments 4m 17s