What's the "Secret" to getting Keekat's Mouth to C

[Kurrykid]

I am working on this tutorial and one thing I notice is that the mouth doesn't close after talking (during the pauses of the sentence). I notice on a lot of the examples that it does close. Can some one please share the "secret" with me (I promise I can keep it ) on how to make the mouth close? It looks much more natural when his mouth closes when he is not talking.

 

Thank you.

[Rodney]

Here's the secret. Shhhh....

 

Once you've got everything in place... I mean... done and very done... open up the Timeline.

What you want to do is change the default interpolaton of the splines in the Timeline (for those areas you want sharp crisp actions (in this case mouth closing).

 

Select the channel splines/keyframes you want to adjust, Right Click and change the interpolation to Hold, Zero Slope or whatever works best for your particular case.

 

There should be some screen shots outlining the process in the "I've got a secret" exercise topic.

It's hard to find on purpose... cause... Shhhh.... it's a secret.

 

Keekat knows...and now you do too.