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Mouth animation with Spline Shader

Mouth animation with Spline Shader

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Mouth animation with Spline Shader

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- [EJ] Welcome to another Motion Graphics Weekly where you up your mograph knowledge one week at a time. I'm EJ Hassenfratz, let's get our learn on. So today I'm going to be covering the spline shader, and the spline shader's a great way to use splines to create textures. So what I'm going to do is I have my little avocado guy here, I'm going to create his mouth using splines. So here's the little mouth spline. What I'm going to do is create a brand new material and let me just cover briefly what the Spline Shader is. So what I'm going to do is just enable Luminance channel and just get a dark black in here, and then in the Alpha channel, I'm actually going to use that mouth spline to cut out that luminance material. So let's go ahead and turn on alpha and let's load up our Spline Shader. Now the Spline Shader you can see right here we have some letters represented in our preview window here. Let me actually just go to a flat plane so you can actually see what's going on. So the…

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