WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.250 --> 00:00:02.756 Facial movements and expressions bring 2 00:00:02.756 --> 00:00:04.868 your characters to life. 3 00:00:04.868 --> 00:00:09.090 So now that we have the zeams and the audio 4 00:00:09.090 --> 00:00:12.692 sort of take finished, now it's time to do our 5 00:00:12.692 --> 00:00:15.200 second pass, which is going to be the face. 6 00:00:15.730 --> 00:00:18.634 OK, so I'm going to go ahead and first I'm 7 00:00:18.634 --> 00:00:20.452 going to give this a little bit of breathing room 8 00:00:20.452 --> 00:00:23.972 because it's only 1 second long and it'd be nice 9 00:00:23.972 --> 00:00:27.532 to sort of animate him a little bit beforehand, then 10 00:00:27.532 --> 00:00:30.082 talk and then maybe animate him a little afterward. 11 00:00:30.082 --> 00:00:33.612 So just a little bit of editing here. 12 00:00:33.612 --> 00:00:38.278 So I'm going to drag select all of the vazims 13 00:00:38.278 --> 00:00:42.848 down here and I can shift select the audio and 14 00:00:42.848 --> 00:00:45.952 you can see that I could slide it all over. 15 00:00:45.952 --> 00:00:50.752 Okay, so we'll get maybe a second beforehand, then 16 00:00:50.752 --> 00:00:54.370 the audio, and then a little bit after that. 17 00:00:54.370 --> 00:00:58.212 Okay, to do this right, I'm going to need to turn 18 00:00:58.212 --> 00:01:03.076 off the microphone and turn on in the properties panel anything 19 00:01:03.076 --> 00:01:07.768 that I want to animate now, including the face. Okay. 20 00:01:07.768 --> 00:01:11.758 So I'm not worrying about anything audio, I'm 21 00:01:11.758 --> 00:01:14.152 just sort of doing a performance now. 22 00:01:14.152 --> 00:01:17.068 So that could be things like the eyebrows, could be 23 00:01:17.068 --> 00:01:21.930 the head movements, basically some of the fun stuff. 24 00:01:21.930 --> 00:01:25.080 So I will now go ahead and hit record. 25 00:01:29.710 --> 00:01:31.100 Hey there, people. 26 00:01:33.390 --> 00:01:38.278 And you can see I get the face camera input. 27 00:01:38.278 --> 00:01:40.676 So this is packaging all of 28 00:01:40.676 --> 00:01:46.292 these different properties for the face. 29 00:01:46.292 --> 00:01:47.748 And you can see I've got the 30 00:01:47.748 --> 00:01:49.920 eyebrows and all that other fun stuff. 31 00:01:51.330 --> 00:01:54.500 And as I hit play, hey there, people. 32 00:01:57.990 --> 00:02:00.520 I might have one of these properties that 33 00:02:00.520 --> 00:02:02.648 even after the fact, I might want to 34 00:02:02.648 --> 00:02:03.816 say, well, that's a little too much. 35 00:02:03.816 --> 00:02:07.272 Like maybe his eyebrows go a little too high. 36 00:02:07.272 --> 00:02:09.916 So even after you've done a recording, if you like 37 00:02:09.916 --> 00:02:13.530 it, you can still go and dial down a property. 38 00:02:13.530 --> 00:02:16.412 So let's say I turn the eyebrows strength down and 39 00:02:16.412 --> 00:02:21.008 notice that the eyebrows don't go up as much. 40 00:02:21.008 --> 00:02:24.896 So that's really helpful that you can, after doing 41 00:02:24.896 --> 00:02:29.440 a performance take, go ahead and actually play with 42 00:02:29.440 --> 00:02:32.960 many of the property settings to dial it in. 43 00:02:33.890 --> 00:02:36.852 But let's say we wanted to add to this. 44 00:02:36.852 --> 00:02:39.428 We said, well, that's pretty good, but I want to do 45 00:02:39.428 --> 00:02:44.072 another take because maybe after he gets to here, I just 46 00:02:44.072 --> 00:02:47.832 want him to maybe go to here and just sort of 47 00:02:47.832 --> 00:02:52.664 hold okay, so I can do another take. 48 00:02:52.664 --> 00:02:54.808 So I'll hit record and I'm just 49 00:02:54.808 --> 00:02:57.050 going to keep my head over here. 50 00:02:57.050 --> 00:02:58.440 All right, here we go. 51 00:03:04.090 --> 00:03:04.828 All right. 52 00:03:04.828 --> 00:03:06.716 Notice now I have two different 53 00:03:06.716 --> 00:03:09.276 takes and it actually numbers them. 54 00:03:09.276 --> 00:03:11.142 But right now it's going to seem really abrupt. 55 00:03:11.142 --> 00:03:14.512 There are people whoa, I don't know, 56 00:03:14.512 --> 00:03:17.152 maybe you want that, but probably not. 57 00:03:17.152 --> 00:03:19.702 So one of the nice things is not only can you slide 58 00:03:19.702 --> 00:03:24.548 the take around, but if you get to the very top here, 59 00:03:24.548 --> 00:03:27.812 so not the edge in the middle, but up a little bit. 60 00:03:27.812 --> 00:03:29.818 Notice I get a little sort of a pointer 61 00:03:29.818 --> 00:03:33.120 finger and that allows me to blend takes together. 62 00:03:33.810 --> 00:03:39.200 So now it's going to blend between those two takes. 63 00:03:40.050 --> 00:03:41.748 So if you don't get it 64 00:03:41.748 --> 00:03:43.860 perfectly dialed, don't worry about it. 65 00:03:43.860 --> 00:03:46.508 If there's any part of your your first face take 66 00:03:46.508 --> 00:03:49.372 that you'll like, you probably want to keep it and 67 00:03:49.372 --> 00:03:52.970 then just do another take and use a blend. 68 00:03:52.970 --> 00:03:56.252 And that is the second round of 69 00:03:56.252 --> 00:03:58.044 recording that you're probably going to want 70 00:03:58.044 --> 00:04:01.250 to do with every puppet recording.