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Eyes don't focus

Eyes don't focus - Character Animator Tutorial

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Eyes don't focus

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- Character Animator normally does a great job tracking your eyes and if your eyes don't seem to be moving the right way, they're a couple of easy things you can do to try to fix it. (upbeat jazz music) The first thing to try is adding light. In order to track your pupils, Character Animator actually needs to see them. So if you're in a dimly lit area, or if the lighting is overhead and it's casting your eyes into shadows, like what's happening to me right now. You can hide your pupils. Believe it or not, you can do an amazing job, even in terrible lighting like this. Because you can see the area around my eyes is really dark so it's going to be very hard for it to pick up pupils. So, let's turn off the overhead light. My camera's going to level it a bit. Next thing I'm going to do is, I'm going to turn on a light, that's just above eye level. That's illuminating my face, going underneath my ridge, my eye ridge and it illuminates my pupils. So now, as I look around, Character Animator…

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