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LipService w/LBrush was designed to be a fast and effective tool for
creating facial animation and target sculpts. The
animation and sculpting tools are integrated into a
single deformer for fast and effective workflow, though
shapes can also be imported/exported to other tools
within Max.
It's a
very powerful brush sculpting tool, even if you don't
use the animation tools - and a very powerful animation
tool, even if you don't use the brush tools.
This is
not a morph tool, it will require much fewer targets to
create smooth animation, and will not need ease-ins or
ease out graphs, this vastly simplifies the process of
animation because the animation will always hit the
targets without sacrificing smoothness of interpolation.
By default, there are 18
basic pre-labeled standard targets however you can add as
many of your own as you feel is necessary. Target
animations can be created quickly and and easily using a
few mouse clicks - just move around on the timeline and
lay down targets as you listen to audio..
"Performance Groups" allow
you to capture motion using your mouse as a puppeteering
device - they are also useful as an aid to modeling.
LipService allows creation of
multi-track animation which is summed together
geometrically (not parametrically). You can add as many
refining tracks as you like without having to cluster
off or protect one part of the model from the animation
of another.
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