For the genuinely confused.
The human mouth is kind of a bastard. Animating it frame-by-frame requires a patience that I just don’t have. Blender has shape keys that can help you mold lips into different configurations for each sound, but you still have to set keyframes to match up with a particular word at each and every frame.
Or you can be lazy. Like me.
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Scenes with custom textures always seem to turn out better for me, but they’re hellish to make. I’ve spent hours in GIMP hand-drawing patterns, carefully testing out layers to get effects. It’s a hassle.
However, I’m learning to automate more of that sort of thing with Processing. What’s really nice about that is you can get a texture that changes subtly every time you run the script if you use the Random function to assign coordinates, weights, and transparency values.
A couple weeks back, I posted a confetti function that was wildly fun to play with, but frustrating because all the confetti was oriented in the same direction.
In the end, I started selecting the individual planes at random to rotate the manually, but well, let’s face it. There were over 200 planes. That was just stupid. Two new lines of Python. That’s all it took. I actually wasn’t even the Python that threw me in the first place—it was the rotation operator.
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