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Cartoon mouth rig using Spline IK

Cartoon mouth rig using Spline IK - CINEMA 4D Tutorial

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Cartoon mouth rig using Spline IK

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- [Narrator] Hello and welcome to another C4D Weekly. This week I'm going to show you a fun way you can rig up a cartoony mouth like you see here by using something called an IK spline. All right, so here I have a mouth and for this type of character mouth, basically it's just built using a sweep with a circle swept along a spline. If I go into my front view here, go into point mode, and hit Command or Control + A, you can see that all of these points are Bézier points, okay, so we've got four points making up this spline, okay, but if you wanted to animate this character, let me just select this bottom point, you would animate it like this and, you know, animate the bottom point here, and basically the only way you can animate points is via point level animation. Point level animation is very laborious, and it's kind of limiting in that it doesn't have the traditional animation track features of traditional ease in and ease…

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