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I want to be honest, face rigs are much harder than you think. You’d have to get everything right or have the shape keys involved. You’d even have to rig the textures of the eyes with empties, which I did with Tahu. What I’m saying is that it’s not easy to translate the animated style of the eyes from illustration to cg model. So, I went with a more logical (yet realistic) approach since they are robots. If you remember, I did the same thing with Megatron. I went with it because I thought they’d be more easier to animate.

In case you haven’t noticed, I was wanting my Transformers films to have this Noveltoon look with a modern twist. From the materials of the Transformers models to the background layouts, both matte and CG. And the humans would be traditionally drawn in this TMS animation, which would match the Saturday morning cartoon and old 40s-50s cartoon feel.

So, yeah. I think this fits well.

Description
I want to be honest, face rigs are much harder than you think. You’d have to get everything right or have the shape keys involved. You’d even have to rig the textures of the eyes with empties, which I did with Tahu. What I’m saying is that it’s not easy to translate the animated style of the eyes from illustration to cg model. So, I went with a more logical (yet realistic) approach since they are robots. If you remember, I did the same thing with Megatron. I went with it because I thought they’d be more easier to animate.

In case you haven’t noticed, I was wanting my Transformers films to have this Noveltoon look with a modern twist. From the materials of the Transformers models to the background layouts, both matte and CG. And the humans would be traditionally drawn in this TMS animation, which would match the Saturday morning cartoon and old 40s-50s cartoon feel.

So, yeah. I think this fits well.