• Adobe After Effects Expressions

  Simple smile animation controlled by expressions (sliders)

  Posted by Tim West on March 27, 2015 at 12:26 pm

  Hi,

  I’m looking to create a simple mouth for a character animation which is controllable via expressions –
  e.g. a line as the mouth which can be positioned into various states (smile, sad, open etc) which are controllable via sliders (so can blend between them if possible).

  Can anyone suggest any tutorials or tips on how to start this? (the more basic the better!)

  Thanks for your time,

  T

  Kevin Camp replied 11 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kevin Camp

  March 27, 2015 at 10:33 pm

  Here’s a good tutorial to set up something very similar to what you are looking for:

  https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/marker-sync.html

  Rather than a slider, it controls the animation sequences with layer markers. If you look at the example, he has a brow animation that goes from normal to raised or frown, i think that the mouth animation could be set up very similarly, going from normal to smile to sad, etc..

  Kevin Camp
  Art Director
  KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

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