How to make a character stand still but still look alive

matthewbelinkie

Guys, I just download Daz this week for a project and I'm already loving what it can do. I want to make an animation where the camera moves around a face. I was going to just have the model be static but now I'm getting greedy and wondering if I can make her look more alive. Obviously I can make her blink, but what's the best way to add some gentle motion to the face, just enough so she looks like she's posing but not a statue? I see a couple packs that having "idling" animations, but those have TOO much motion (stretches, looking at a watch, etc). I just want a realistic tiny sway as she stands there. Thoughts?

Richard Haseltine

The eyes tend to move around unless the figure is staring fixedly. Also, people usually breathe so adding some of that will help. The ideal would be to add a pulse, but I'm not aware of any sets to di that (and they'd probably need to be HD moprhs, which limits the places to look). Occasionally swallowing would also be good.

Catherine3678ab

Oh the store to watch would be Simonwm.

For eg.:

https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-8-alive
https://www.daz3d.com/genesis-2-alive

Some of the products work with another one or two [i.e. need to buy 2 or 3 different products] to make more lifelike illusions.

Even for stills, animations can be very helpful as you can stop the animation at the desired pose, and save out that single pose as a pose preset.

There is also this product by QT168 in the store: https://www.daz3d.com/real-facial-animation-for-genesis-8-maless-and-females

I mention watching the stores because eventually most everything goes on sale at different times of the year ;-)