Animating Facial Shape Keys

Grade 10β€’45 minutes

Learning Objective

I can use shape keys to create realistic and expressive facial animations.

Practice Questions

This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.

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1. Define what shape keys are in Blender and explain their purpose in character animation.

2. Explain why it is important to avoid adding or deleting vertices when editing shape keys. What type of mesh editing is appropriate for shape keys?

3. Describe the process of mirroring a shape key from one side of a symmetrical model to the other. What are the advantages and disadvantages of mirroring shape keys versus creating them manually on each side?

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