Forum: Carrara

Subject: Balloons with morph faces

ominousplay opened this issue on Oct 21, 2007 ยท 10 posts

ominousplay posted Sun, 21 October 2007 at 3:37 PM

I wanted to add character to a balloon using morphs - this is what I came up with. The balloon needs tobe set up to morph the face with all verticies and sides/faces set - I learned the hard way that you can't add verticies or connect verticies after you've set the morph area.. crash. I didn't spend too much time on the face after the crash. I wonder if someone has done something like this before... I've posted the .gif. R

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ominousplay posted Sun, 21 October 2007 at 4:44 PM

Okay, I need to stop, but here is another 1/2 hour of modifications on the first face - I'm having all kinds of trouble adding morphs to the morph with animation - once you have a morph, say the face, then to add the lips or brow moving on top of the morph means duplicating the morph, adding changes to the full morph, and then playing around with the animation until it works - otherwise I was getting double morphs - very scary looking faces!

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dogbite1066 posted Sun, 21 October 2007 at 7:24 PM

Great! Looking at that thing is hypnotic, yet disturbing in some way. That animation coming through a vanity mirror would be striking. A magical face on some wizards enchanted door would be another possibility.

Miss Nancy posted Sun, 21 October 2007 at 7:26 PM

the red one is not bad IMVHO! displacement map is third possibility.


ominousplay posted Sun, 21 October 2007 at 8:37 PM

Here she is if anyone wants it. Download and change .txt to .car - and sorry, it's carpro6. Thanks Miss Nancy and Dogbite - the mirror is a great idea... a magic chest... a hat...oh yeah, that's been done...

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ominousplay posted Sun, 21 October 2007 at 10:47 PM

Okay, I was inspired by the mirror idea. I'll post the file after. Another way would be to puch an actual face through the mirror or balloon, but this works - a face in the water - or texture maps- that would work too.

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ominousplay posted Sun, 21 October 2007 at 10:49 PM

Here is the file: Download and change .txt to .car - it is CarPro6. R

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dogbite1066 posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 1:12 AM

Its incredible. Almost like the one in Shrek. Great job. Those faces have a ton of potential! Even if you don't do full animations they would make great Gif images for a myspace or website.

ominousplay posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 11:10 AM

Thanks dogbite - curious, did you make your avitar?

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dogbite1066 posted Sat, 27 October 2007 at 7:05 AM

Attached Link: http://lnx.eklettica.com/coppermine/index.php

No, I wish I was that good... It's by Alessandro Baldasseroni, my favorite cg artist. Its a promo for the xbox game, GUN. This is his page, he's got lots of good work.