Animated Face
With this tutorials you'll learn how to animate quickly a simple face with 3D Studio Max.

Animated face

With this tutorial you'll create a simple face and animate it.






Modeling

1.Create a sphere segments 12



2.Convert it to edit poly, select these points and chamfer it to 15


3.Select these poly and bevel it from Height -5 Outline Amount -2 click apply to do it a second time than click ok



4.Rescale these points to made the mouth



5.Select these poly to make the mouth, extrude it from -1 and than from -20



6.Put a turbosmooth (or a meshsmooth) modifier on iteration 2



7.In the front view define a line like this put it in the front of the face (see top view).




8.On the edit poly level select these points



9.Add the modifier Linked XForm on the top of Editable Poly under turbosmooth (meshsmooth)


10.For the Linked XForm click the "Pick Control Object" and select the line created
Now select the line and move it to make your face smile or not.





You can do the same by adding new lines and Mesh select + Linked Xform to select other point to link
to other lines and you have a remote control for your face.