Completed Video

The final video.

Expressions Animation

Here's the footage of the facial expressions

Rotation Video

For the project hand-in I've decided to have a quick rotation of the model, then have the footage of the facial expressions. Here is the model rotation

Eyes?

Decided that the animation didn't look quite right, and realised it was due to the character having no eyes. Therefore I spent the morning make him some eyes. I used simple spheres in Max, and applied a texture i made in Photoshop.

Video

Followed the tutorial and was able to make a small test animation.

Something to try

I have found a tutorial for animating a face, that does not use bones to alter the mesh. It uses the morph function of 3D Studio Max, and allows for more control. I will follow the tutorial today and see what effect it creates.

Rigging the face

So far, rigging the face has not been a success. Having followed 3 different tutorials, I still cannot get the control and look I want from the rig, or the rig just doesn't work at all. I may have to use a different technique to using bones.

Complete Head

Ears are now attached to the head, and the modelling is now compete. I can now start rigging the face for animation. Attaching the ears was harder than I first thought it would be. Firstly I had to make room for it to be attached, and then I had to add several polys to the head so that it could be attached properly without affecting the topology.  

Ears

Have a model of the ears made, just need to attach them to the head. I plane modelled the ear as it will make attaching it to the head much easier.