From the course: Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

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Creating a shape key for eye blinks

Creating a shape key for eye blinks

From the course: Create an Animated Character in Blender 2.9

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Creating a shape key for eye blinks

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- [Instructor] Since our eye controls don't really close the eyes real well with these big round eyes here. We can create a shape key that will allow us to blink the eyes very easily. Now you can't use both the eye control and the shape key at the same time. You'd need to get these controls back to their default position with say alt+G. But if all we're doing is just creating a blink it really won't be a problem. So to create a blink, let's first of all, select the character. And instead of using the Vertex groups over here in this object data properties panel let's twirl this up and use shape keys here. Now, currently with the character selected and in object mode, you can see we could create a new shape key. If I tap into edit mode, you can see it grayed out. And we can't. So here in object mode, let's go ahead and click the plus and create a shape key here. And the first one is always the basis shape key. So…

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