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Facial tracking (details features) to shape animation/tranformation
Hi all.
This might be a bit of a n00b question.
I’m trying out the Face tracking (detailed features) in AE to animate simple shapes. I know where to find a particular feature’s point data in AE and that I have to use the pick whip tool to link it to element I want it to “follow”, but I’m only managing to use it with a shape’s Anchor point, while I’m trying to animate each vertex of a shape individually. I want the shape (here a diamond on the right eye) to copy the eye’s actual behavior (diamond “closes” when eyelid closes, etc). I’m new to expressions. I might be taking the wrong approach to this. It doesn’t have to be perfect just as close as possible.Please help me Internet Kenobi, you’re my only hope
Thank you,
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The way I would approach this is to calculate the distances between different track points.
As an example, this expression calculates the size of mouth. To be copied to the Size property of an Rectangle Path.L = thisComp.layer("Videoclip")mL = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Left");
mR = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Right");
mT = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Top");
mB = L.effect("Face Track Points")("Mouth Bottom");[length(mL, mR), length(mT, mB)]
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