“Happy” speech postures with clusters

My visual reference is mainly from the scene where Flynn Rider goes “Hi”. I wanted to capture the “H” and also use the beginning and end faces as the “neutral” poses. For the “P”, I decided to imitate infamous “smolder” (and so the “E” became a transition between that and the second neutral face). In retrospect these probably weren’t the best references to use since they’re kinda too exaggerated, but I don’t really have time to change it all so…

References + Stills:

neutral 1 ref

neutral 1 persp

neutral 1 front

neutral 1 side

(H)A ref

(H)A persp

(H)A front

(H)A side

P ref

P persp

P front

P side

E “ref” (is more of a transition pose)

E persp

E front

E side

neutral 2 ref

neutral 2 persp

neutral 2 front

neutral 2 side

So I mostly used the method where I had the clusters attached to the lattices that affect certain vertices just so I could manage the symmetry more easily. The lattices generally worked well except it screwed up when I started editing the model, so I had to completely redo the nose and mouth.

Obviously not everything is working properly (especially the mouth). These are pretty much the things on my priority list to fix the next time (and more can be added if I get more suggestions):
– The mouth
– The edge of the eyebrows
– The “mid brow” area
– Sides of nose crease (if it’s really blowing me off)