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Gangle Face Test

Added 2024-12-15 06:41:32 +0000 UTC

Is Gangle sexy enough to be relevant to this page? Well she is a girl character like I usually draw and 300+ results on Rule34 suggests that at least SOME people find her sexy so fuck it I'm sharing this here

The new Digital Circus episode got me thinking about how they animated Gangle's face, primarily because when I play around with Blender, I also like to use 2D animated face textures that look drawn on instead of making a proper face rig, but the way I go about that is having a ton of different face textures that swap out on every frame, giving the face movement a jerky stop motion quality. But Gangle's face moves way too smoothly for them to be doing that unless they masochistically swap between literally thousands of different face textures, and I can't imagine that they'd do that since Digital Circus animation always seemed to me to be taking a "work smarter not harder" approach. It's literally the main reason I love the show so much, every time a new episode goes up something in it makes a lightbulb go off and I think "I could do that." Gangle clearly has a more conventional face rig that conforms to the shape of her mask somehow. I always knew about the Shrinkwrap modifyer but never got it to really work on anything, mostly because I never really had a reason to play with the settings more. So I played with the settings more. Here's the result, the camera moves up and down to prove I didn't cheat the shot by carefully placing the face pieces so they look like they're on the mask through perspective, you can see they are in fact conforming to the shape of her face as they change expressions