"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
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> "Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-)56590@ao:-)l.com> wrote in message
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> I think there may be a lip solution on the horizon some day but not yet.  It
> would involve the trace function and a 60-sphere blob; declaring the face,
> tracing it and redeclaring it with the lip components added.  Maybe I'll
> wait 'till I get a 2.53 GHz box before implementing that one...
> 
> I've at least fixed the head.  The solution is that the front of the face &
> jaw head are a stack of pancakes, flattened spheres, where the position and
> scale are determined by splines.  I'll try to have a more substantial
> improvement before posting again.
> 
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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.

About the lips: perhaps some lipstick would work. I'm serious
here: a bit of colour might be enough. 
Another idea might be to add a cylinder component to the blob
slightly larger then the cylinder you cut out for his mouth.

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

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"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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