Getting a too much complicated face , any suggestions?

Question

Hey , im creating an animal character , its a panda , i needed head turner behavior for its head and also different face emotions like crying - angry - cute etc.

Which means for every face position like frontal , left quarter and the others (which makes 7 different poses) i need 6 different face styles (including normal)

Now the problem is that the face is a little detailed , eyelids and mouth are different for different emotions , the character has white cheeks which i want them moved for more depth.

So for all of these , i created a main group named head , followed by groups for head turner like different profiles and each profile has all different types of emotions.

now the whole project I have got has a whooping number of 830 layers which i think is just too much and the only thing which is not moving is the main part of the head that consists of only 4 layers.

Any suggestions on how to make this project better organised / optimized?

Dan Ramirez · Accepted Answer

One option is to make your giant fully featured puppet, duplicate it in the Project panel, then modify the duplicated puppet to make it more simple.

So if you have a puppet with eight views, but you know you're only using one view in one scene, you could create a one view copy of that puppet that will perform better while allowing you to do all of your design and rigging in a fully featured puppet.

Let's say that scene now requires two views, you can replace that track puppet with another copy of your puppet that has two views and you won't lose any of your animation.

Eventually, I'd like CH to be able to automatically do this type of thing. You could tell the app every trigger you'd like to use for a scene, then the app could remove the portions of the puppet that don't use those triggers.

Dan Ramirez
CH QA Engineer

Fata Morgana · Answer

Little question :

I have the same problem with a huge puppet, but the image is jerking when I try to do a scene with it.

With this 830 layer's puppet, you have a a good render in a scene ?

Thank per advance

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