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brave rabbit’s SHAPES: Facial

Rig, Maya, brave rabbit’s SHAPES

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This class covers the main features of SHAPES 2.0 . It will get you up and started creating blendshapes, combo blendshapes and correctives. Fundamental Shapes workflow is easily demonstrated here on the face and mouth setup. This Class Covers…

– Shapes and how corrective blendshapes work
– Creating Blendshapes with Shapes
– The tweak node and how Shapes implements it
– The Shapes Brush
– Creating Driven Key Correctives using the Shapes UI
– Creating Combination blendshapes using the Shapes UI
– Mirroring and Splitting blendshapes
– Creating an opposite shape, Left to Right
– A look at an advanced face setup

SHAPES can be used in a huge variety of situations not only on the face and body, it’s useful in most blendshape workflows.

By Ingo Clemens over at www.braverabbit.de SHAPES maximises the power of maya’s blendshape system. It’s a tool that does all the things you’d want with blendshapes. Extremely powerful and simple to use. Rigs created with shapes will run without the plugin installed unless you’re using the in built pose space deformers (weighted drivers). Ingo has made the weighted drivers freely downloadable so only the TDs need the commercial plugin for setup. Most students won’t need that weighted drivers. They’re used in corrective blend shape workflow on objects prone to gimbal. Shoulders and thighs etc. See the body version of this tutorial.

Shapes personal learning edition is free and can be dowloaded here . The PLE is full featured with a popup message window.

The commercial version of SHAPES is 130€.

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0.1 – Introduction
1.1 – How Shapes Works
1.2 – Getting Started
1.3 – Maya’s tweak Node
2.1 – The Shapes Brush
2.2 – The Shapes Brush
3.1 – Corrective Workflow
3.2 – Chin Correctives
4.1 – SHAPES Combos
5.1 – Splitting Symmetrical Shapes
5.2 – Maya Symmetry Issues
5.3 – Create Opposite
6.1 – Advanced Face Example

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Andrew Silke

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Official SHAPES Page

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brave rabbit

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October 2015

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Video 1.1 shows us how correctives work in a fairly extreme example. Showing how Shapes may be used for aim finaling.

Video 1.2 Gets us sculpting quickly and shows how shapes duplicates a mesh and hides the current while editing.

Video 1.3 Goes over the importance of Maya’s tweak node which is important because we can easily find ourselves sculpting accidentally without the sculpt mode activated. This shows some simple fixes to get around these issues.

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[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”25″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”25″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/1″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/1″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”20″][/vc_column][/minti_toggle][/vc_row][vc_row bg_color=”#ffffff” text_color=”dark” ][vc_column width=”1/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”20″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”30″][minti_title align=”left”]3. SHAPES Correctives (19 mins)[/minti_title][vc_column_text]This section covers corrective blendshapes[/vc_column_text][minti_spacer height=”0″][/vc_column][/vc_row][wpanchor id=”3.1″][vc_row bg_color=”#ffffff” text_color=”dark” ][minti_toggle title=”VIDEO 3.1 : SIMPLE CORRECTIVE WORKFLOW (10 mins)” open=”false” icon=”fa-film”][vc_column width=”1/1″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”15″]

[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”25″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”25″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/1″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/1″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”20″][/vc_column][/minti_toggle][/vc_row][vc_row bg_color=”#ededed” text_color=”dark” ][vc_column width=”1/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”20″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”30″][minti_title align=”left”]4. SHAPES Combos (4:53 mins)[/minti_title][vc_column_text]This section covers combination blendshapes known as “combos”.[/vc_column_text][minti_spacer height=”0″][/vc_column][/vc_row][wpanchor id=”4.1″][vc_row bg_color=”#ededed” text_color=”dark” ][minti_toggle title=”VIDEO 4.1 : SHAPES COMBOS (4:53 mins)” open=”false” icon=”fa-film”][vc_column width=”1/1″ text_align=”left” text_color=”dark”][minti_spacer height=”15″]

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