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Eyelid shapes

Eyelid shapes - Maya Tutorial

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Eyelid shapes

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- With the lip shapes in place we can move on to the upper part of the face, so we're going to concentrate on blinking the character. We're going to work with the eyes and the eyelids. So, with this character, the eyes actually are separate objects. So, I'm going to Shift + Select those and make a separate layer for them. So I'm going to hop over layers and I'll go 'Create Layer from Selected', double-click on that and let's just name that 'eyes'. And the reason I'm doing that is that I can template it or reference it and not accidentally select this part of the model. So, let's go ahead and template it so we can see our model itself. And with our model, we want to make sure that we have enough edge loops to model the blink and I've got plenty of edge loops in here. So we can do that. And then we also want to make sure we understand where that mid-point of the blink is. So, I'm going to turn on 'Wire…

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