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Testing blend shapes

Testing blend shapes - Maya Tutorial

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Testing blend shapes

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- [Instructor] Now I've gone ahead and tweaked my smile shape, and this is what I came up with. Now when you create blend shapes, you do want to be consistently testing them against your neutral model, just to make sure that everything is working properly. So we can do that very easily. Now I have my neutral here, but I'm going to want to protect it even more than I have. So I'm going to go ahead and select that neutral model. And then just go ahead and duplicate it. And then let's go ahead and hide that duplicate. So I'm going to go ahead and just hit Ctrl + H. So now I have a copy of this. And let's go ahead and move this one over. And we can now basically apply the blend shape to this copy to make sure that everything works. So I'm going to go ahead and select my smile shape first, you select your blend shapes first, your target last. So I'm going to shift select that neutral shape. Let's go into our Rigging menu go…

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