Mine-Imator Face Change Mid-animation tutorial thing

[CaptainClipy 1.4k]

Hallo. I was asked by someone on how I change my Minecraft character's face mid-animation (Clipy in Land, for instance), so I decided I'd make a teeny little tutorial.

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So, first, you create a character for as many different facial expressions you want (this counts the original skin), simply so that they are in the project (You can use a website like Miners Need Cool Shoes to make the skins). Then delete all of the characters but the original skinned one, just make sure you keep the skins themselves in the project.

Once they're in the project, that's the hard part over.

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Simply create a keyframe with the default skin (or your choosing), then create another keyframe somewhere after that. Then select your character and scroll down to texture. You should see this (but with your custom skins, not CLAPY and CLAPY SHIFTY 2):

Next, when you have the second keyframe selected, scroll down to texture and select whichever custom skin you have imported in the project. Then, ta-daa!

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When you play back the animation, you should see the face (or whatever other change you did to the second skin) magically change! (You can also do this with individual body parts as long as you have the body part selected when changing the texture) If it doesn't work, you're doing something wrong.

I hope I explained it okayish. Bai.

[Lapis Productions 382]

Niceeee.

Waii you are using IE?

[CaptainClipy 1.4k]

8 minutes ago, Lapis Productions said:

Niceeee.

Waii you are using IE?

...what's IE?

[Lapis Productions 382]

1 minute ago, CaptainClipy said:

...what's IE?

 Internet Explorer

[CaptainClipy 1.4k]

5 minutes ago, Lapis Productions said:

 Internet Explorer

oh. Yes I do. I'm primitive.

Edited January 13, 2017 by CaptainClipy

[Colchy 420]

or you can just bind a head with that texture, make it not visible and the normal one visible, and switch every time you want to make it switch.

[Rollo 3.2k]

49 minutes ago, Colchy said:

or you can just bind a head with that texture, make it not visible and the normal one visible, and switch every time you want to make it switch.

 

[Ethaniel 15.2k]

Shameless self promotion but here is that used in an animation,
 

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[Emaniplex 6.3k]

1 hour ago, Colchy said:

or you can just bind a head with that texture, make it not visible and the normal one visible, and switch every time you want to make it switch.

That's the unnecessarily hard way of doing it.

[Colchy 420]

17 minutes ago, Emaniplex said:

That's the unnecessarily hard way of doing it.

Its easy for me :3

[lou3d 355]

And........ "Someone"

Thanks! Really helped.

[BBruce7815 2k]

thank you, Clapy...

[Tiedemies1 2.8k]

this is something i discovered accidently at one point

[Shane 2.8k]

or just use a facial rig

[CaptainClipy 1.4k]

4 hours ago, Shane said:

or just use a facial rig

What if you don't want to use a facial rig, huh?

Also this is much easier than facial rigs.

[BBruce7815 2k]

5 minutes ago, CaptainClipy said:

What if you don't want to use a facial rig, huh?

Also this is much easier than facial rigs.

it is actually a thing of likings, i find using phonemes very frustating, that's why i use 3d rigs

[CaptainClipy 1.4k]

1 hour ago, BBruce7815 said:

it is actually a thing of likings, i find using phonemes very frustating, that's why i use 3d rigs

I'm like you, but the opposite. I find rigs very frustrating.