Action point movement quirk
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:01 pm
Ran into this one while testing a set of lip-sync actions yesterday. I make my usual set of poses, and this set has worked well with other characters. The strangest thing happens, though, on a couple of the poses, in this case it happened on the "B M P" mouth pose.
The red action timeline for 'B M P' shows the mouth assuming the correct shape for that pose. When B M P is the first pose used in the full timeline, it works okay. Here's where things get strange: anytime I put a pose before B M P, the B M P pose comes out the wrong shape. For example, if I use the 'U' shape, B M P comes out with strange positions and curves. In fact any given mouth shape that proceeds B M P causes it to form a different shape. It's almost as if some of the points/curves are locked in place between poses.
Things I've tried:
- Erasing the B M P action and re-creating it.
- Checking each sub-layer for irregular point positions and bezel curves.
Things to note:
- Other action positions transition from shape to shape just fine. So going from U to AI has no issues, although I do have a smile pose that makes the same error as B M P.
At this point I'm thinking of just deleting the mouth and starting over.
The red action timeline for 'B M P' shows the mouth assuming the correct shape for that pose. When B M P is the first pose used in the full timeline, it works okay. Here's where things get strange: anytime I put a pose before B M P, the B M P pose comes out the wrong shape. For example, if I use the 'U' shape, B M P comes out with strange positions and curves. In fact any given mouth shape that proceeds B M P causes it to form a different shape. It's almost as if some of the points/curves are locked in place between poses.
Things I've tried:
- Erasing the B M P action and re-creating it.
- Checking each sub-layer for irregular point positions and bezel curves.
Things to note:
- Other action positions transition from shape to shape just fine. So going from U to AI has no issues, although I do have a smile pose that makes the same error as B M P.
At this point I'm thinking of just deleting the mouth and starting over.