Following the instruction of Nike’s tutor, first I used BOS to screen record a YouTube video of the Blade Runner film clip. Then I used AE to adjust the tones and colours, which made the characters clearer in the picture. Finally, I used AE to export the image sequence and import it into MAYA.
Using the Blade Runner film footage, I used the graphics editor to make each of the different mouth patterns. The main basic mouth shapes are “a”, “e”, “u” and “o”. Subsequent mouth shapes and facial details were further increased by the number of mouth shapes according to the picture sequence. The “th”, “v” and smiling mouth shapes are the most frequent. After the mouth animation the head movements and eye movements also need to be edited.
Finally we came to the rendering part, to make sure that the quality of the render and the format EXR is a good choice tif is also possible. After a long time of rendering a preliminary animation was finally obtained.