๐งต Fluid 2D facial expressions
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:23:43 UTC 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=Mb0
Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:08:51 UTC 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 at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:25:08 UTC 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 at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:44:27 UTC 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 at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:05:08 UTC 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 at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 04:24:05 UTC No. 1009934
>>1009843
The third one sounds like it would get the best looking results so I'll look into that, thanks