How to Use Facial Expressions

How it works:

Get to Know the jam Band Characters.

Activate Facial Expressions from Editor Mode/ Director Mode.

Make Videos that Have Facial Animations with Motions.

For more details, please follow the step-by-step instructions below.

Get to know jam Band Characters.

The jam Band Characters are a new format of characters that are based on G3 standard characters. We make the facial features (mouth, face, eyes, eyebrows, and hair) accessories, and give them facial expressions. Since each character has different body shape, it's not recommended to switch upper and lower bodies between the characters.

A-1.

Apply any character (Ex. Rizumu). You can see from the Scene Manager that the character is composed from many accessories as picture below.

A-2.

Single Accessory (Ex. .J_Eyes).

Choose any accessory form the Scene Manager (Ex. .J_Eyes). Right click on it and you can see that there are many expression animations for eyes in Perfrom.
Other facial features also have their own expression animations (Ex. .J_Face, J_Eyes, J_Eyebrow).

A-3.

Control multiple accessories altogether.

Right click on the character from the Scene Manager. You can see that there are many facial expressions (Ex. Blink, Angryâ€¦etc). These are combined by animations from single accessory mentioned in A-2.

Activate facial expressions in Editor Mode/ Director Mode.

You can choose using Editor Mode or Director Mode to activate the facial expressions.

B-1.

Activate facial expressions in Editor Mode/ Director Mode.
Choose the facial feature or the character that you want the facial expressions to generate from at the appropriate time period as mentioned in step A.

Click on the facial feature or the character.

Right click and choose the expression in the Perform menu.

B-2.

Activate Facial Expressions in Director Mode.
Click on the Mode Switch button to enter Director Mode.

Click on the Record button.

Press hotkeys to generate Facial Expressions while recording. Please see below for the detailed hot key list.

When the character is chosen, the hotkey list for Combined Facial Animation is as below.

Number key 1 > Default
Number key 2 > Blink
Number key 3 > Smile 01
Number key 4 > Smile 02
Number key 5 > Smile 03_Blink Left Eye
Number key 6 > Smile 04_Blink Right Eye
Number key 7 > Angry
Number key 8 > Sad
Number key 9 > Speak Angrily
Number key 0 > Speak Sadly
Inset Key > Speak Happily

When single facial feature is chosen, the hotkeys for Animation for each Facial Feature is as below.

J_Face executes mouth expressions. Use Num. 1 ~ Num 0 to control as in the picture below.

J_ Eyes executes eye expressions. Use Num. 1 ~ Num 8 to control as in the picture below.

J_ Eyebrow executes eyebrow expressions. Use Num. 1 ~ Num 6 to control as in the picture below.

Make Videos that Have Facial Animations with Motions

Following Step B to add Facial Expressions on the character and apply motion to make a complete video.

Tip.
Since this is a new type of content, please execute â€œRemove All Animationâ€ before using facial expressions. This will prevent time frame going back to the first frame after combined expression is executed. (Do not have to do so for iClone4).