"Remco de Korte" <rem### [at] onwijscom> wrote in message
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>
> I'm not sure about the pancakes but it occurred to me that with
> the ridges he might apply for a role on Star Trek.
>

Imagine an entire galaxy filled with bipedal Caucasians, varying only in the
amount of latex on their noses.... Dr. Who did better with
low-budget-plausibility on this one....
But seriously, that was actually my chin pancake stack butting through the
side of the head.  I fixed it later.



> About the lips: perhaps some lipstick would work.
> I'm serious here: a bit of colour might be enough.
>

Aha. I could do this with the object function a slightly larger object than
the object used to cut the mouth hole, then just make it pink.


> Another idea might be to add a cylinder component
> to the blob slightly larger then the cylinder you cut
> out for his mouth.
>

I considered a solution like this that worked perfectly in being true to the
jaw rotation but it wouldn't have worked with a mouth changing shape in the
'x' as it made lip-sync shapes.

>
> I also realized that these test animations give a slightly
> distorted view, or actually, an undistorted view that stresses
> certain things I otherwise wouldn't notice. If for instance, he
> would move his head a bit while talking you would get a better
> 'impression' (as opposed to an exact image).
>
> Remco


yeah, cool.  Thanks for the consideration..........
Now I have 'writer's block' as far as a storyline involving 'speed' and this
character.

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