From the course: Using Character Animator in Production

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Eyes disappear when blinking

Eyes disappear when blinking - Character Animator Tutorial

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Eyes disappear when blinking

- My Bob character here is looking pretty good, but one of his eyes disappears every time he blinks. So what's up with that? (upbeat dance music) The issue with eyes disappearing usually happens when you have a cycle set for your blinks. Let me show you what I'm talking about. It's an easy fix. So for my Bob character, I didn't want the eyes just to blink open and shut. I wanted the eyelids to move up and down. So it's a little bit slower, a little bit more animated. So for instance, here I've clicked on Right Blink to show you Blink 1 in this cycle, they're halfway closed, and then Blink 2 is all the way closed. So in order for this to work, I've got to set a behavior called Cycle Layers. So that's what I did. So if we have our Right Blink selected over here, come over to the right under properties, under Behaviors, you'll see Cycle Layers, and it'll advance every frame. I want it to cycle once. Otherwise, eyes will flutter up and down. And Hold on Last Layer. So the last layer is…

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