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The Moon Reborns

A line "I wish the moon would be born again" from "Peony Pavilion" was intercepted to lip-sync the model.  The outline of the model was completed in Maya, then used Mudbox for details, colors and makeup. The production is made after the study of opera actors makeup, facial expressions and accessories.

For the lip sync theme, I chose one line in the Kunn Opera The Peony Pavilion as the lyric. 

Modeling
Lip Sync
  • Mouth not wide
  • Risorius open
  • Chin relax and retract
  • Slow and seady transformation
Animation 
More Details in Process ...
The main colors that Kunn Opera performers use for makeup are royal scarlet and pure black. They paint their whole face with a tender flesh color. Then they apply red color around their eyes, cheeks and other parts. The region between the eyebrows and the upper eyelids has the deepest red color. The black eyeliner is extended, and the eyeliners are black in order to make the eyes of the actresses bright and concentrated. My character is a young and beautiful female from a rich family, so I painted the eyebrows in the shape of the willow leaf, as it is a common shape for eyebrows of this kind of character.

Based on the sentence I chose, I determined some phonemes to sculpt. According to my observation of the Kun Opera actresses, they don’t move their mouths very much.
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