Mouth Animation Shows As Blank Spot - Randomly

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January 24, 2021
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So all of the sounds have all their vector graphics and they are original to the Blank character template I downloaded. Some words make the proper mouth expressions but at random moments the face is completly missing a mouth. Any Ideas? The default is set to Nuetral mouth but it happens frequent and it's very noticable.

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alank99101739

Legend

i would suggest recording some voice then looking at the visemes in the recording. If you move the playhead along, is there a viseme that is broken (not showing anything)? My guess is a viseme is broken - eg some other layer in the puppet got tagged with the vismeme name as well so it's using the wrong layer for that viseme - or a missing tag, or spelling error etc.

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randomg49733613Author

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Yes, several, after the Uh's and Ah's but I can't figure out why. I've went back and forth between the original unedited Blank Puppet but everything is set up the same way. Maybe I should delete the sad faces and see if that helps?

alank99101739

Legend

Does the timeline show a viseme but when you put the playhead on it the mouth does not appear? That indicates that viseme needs fixing. Or is it there is no viseme in the timeline and no mouth appears sometimes?

If you are not using sad mouth you can certainly delete it. But screenshots and precise details can help diagnose problems. I am still not sure the circumstance around the issue - is it not finding a viseme, is the visem found but nothing is displayed, or is the mouth disappearing and random and not related to visemes, etc. There are multiple problems that are possible.

It is very rare for it to be a random problem - it is normally a tagging issue so a trigger, a viseme, etc is behaving not as you want. So the trick is to work out what situation is triggering the problem, then we can track down why. Screenshots with examples can help a lot (of the rigging hierarchy, of timelines) as others can sometimes spot what you don't know what to look for yet. You can just paste them directly into this text area when responding.

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