As your characters face animates, slight movements will cause less intense wrinkles to show up, but extreme or exaggerated facial expressions will bring in a texture map that will add wrinkle bumps (normal strength), shadows for those wrinkles (AO), and blood pooling between the wrinkles (Redness). You can change the Strength, AO, Redness, and Rate of Appearance in the sliders below the dummy window. Turn on Check with Expressions as well, and as you click on the different areas of the face in the dummy panel, the expression wrinkle system will activate a face shape, and blend in the appropriate wrinkles on your character where those shapes require it. If you check on Activate Expression Wrinkles, Character Creator will apply default expression wrinkles to our character (these can actually be found in Actor > Expression Wrinkles > Neutral in the Content tab). Select the top group of your “CC3_Base_Plus” neutral character in the Scene tab, and you’ll see an Expression Wrinkles tab is available in the Modify panel - click on this tab. Let’s add some quick expression wrinkles to our morphed, neutral test character. Realism! Adding Neutral Expression Wrinkles Face Tools Installation and The Concept of Expression Wrinkles in Character Creator (CC)īase head, base head creating an expression, and finally thoseĮxpressions being supported by expression wrinkle textures to add Transfer Character’s Head and Complete the body in ZBrush Create Unique Expressions & Wrinkles with ZBrush Face Tools Sculpting High-res Base Head with ZBrush Face Tools Fast Prototyping Head & Body for ZBrush Sculpting Face Tools Installation and The Concept of Expression Wrinkles in Character Creator (CC) With the Face Tools plugin, you’ll spend your time sculpting, painting, and exploring what makes your character unique, and letting Character Creator do the heavy lifting on the technical implementation! Creating expressive characters historically was a tedious and time consuming process, where you spent most of your time managing files and tweaking verts. In this article we’re going to learn how Face Tools allow to you create all of these rich, unique shapes, wrinkles, and supporting detail, all while keeping the process fun. That’s why we are going to explore the powerful plugin – ZBrush Face Tools.

Beyond how your character’s face moves, there’s also supporting details that interact with facial movements that lend nuance and uniqueness to your character as well, adding a richness and believability that will make your characters stand out among a sea of boring characters, as well as being more effective telling their visual story.

YOUR face and its movements are unique and interesting, so why wouldn’t your character’s face be as well. The face is the first thing your audience looks at when watching or interacting with your character, so it is of the utmost importance that you make that experience a memorable one! And not just how your character looks standing there expressionless - your character’s face will move while it tells its story, and if all it can pull from is mediocre, default shapes, its performance will fall flat, and its story won’t be very interesting to your viewers.

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