Morphs V/S Bones for Facial Rigging

[FrankieV]

@YuriNK

Blended morph targets give summed value, and blended bones give average value.

Morphs are good for blending between layers, for example, to combine facial animation (one layer) + lips animation (another layer atop of facial expression). But two morphs at the same layer distort the face.

Bones are good for blending within a layer: for example, you can blend together different facial bones affecting the same part of face to get desired expression or can blend multiple mouth bones to get phoneme animation. But blending between facial expression and mouth would result both animations in half value.

Humm not sure what you mean. Almost sounds backwards.

Bones work very well as layers and the same animation sets can be used on 100’s of different characters.

Expresions and eye blink

about 16 layers so things like the eyes or mouth opening and closing can be done independent using the same animation takes so clusters works well on video game characters where there is no real need for a high fidelity output. All of the Paragon character models for example are rigged for cluster shaping .

Morphs on the other hand blend based on weight as an additive and only effects vertices that has an offset off of the target

So

Blended morphs gives you a sum total of the additive value blended bones gives you the absolute value