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๐Ÿงต Fluid 2D facial expressions

Anonymous No. 1009783

What technique did the Ape Escape 2 (2002) CG animators use to make these flat facial expressions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0zEIV9N58

Anonymous No. 1009802

>>1009783
Only the prerendered ones are fluid. YOu can see the ones actually taking place in real time are much simpler.

Anyway, it's just a bunch of texture swapping

Anonymous No. 1009803

>>1009783
Cris you have your own thread and the stupid questions to ask these kind of shits, the cat thread is yours too I suppose ....

Anonymous No. 1009805

>>1009802
I should have specified I just meant the pre-rendered cutscenes. I don't think they are using texture swapping for that since it's so fluid

Anonymous No. 1009843

3 main strats
>1 animate the UVs to deform textures
>2 the textures themselves are vectors generated by the shader with animatable parameters
>3 the textures are fully animated

it looks like they did all 3. mostly #3.

Anonymous No. 1009934

>>1009843
The third one sounds like it would get the best looking results so I'll look into that, thanks