Week 5

 Retargeting the brows:

The first pass was decent, but I'm not sure why some parts of the retarget for the brows would be raised strangely, I didn't set any keyframes with upward movements and I don't see such behaviors in Analyzer.

Frame 36-46

Frame 270-273

Frame 337-355

Frame 417-426

Frame 429-434

Frame 490-502 dropped downwards then rebounded upwards around frame 527-536

I managed to fix the majority of the weird movements, just some jittery here and there which would be easier to smooth out during the cleaning process. Moreover, I left out the brows drop near the end, as the pose was consistent from frame 487 till the end so I can keep that pose stationary during clean up.

Retargeting the eyes:

The first pass was bad, like terribly bad. For some reason, the eyes were really problematic compared to the brows. Many random movements that weren't in the analyzer, the eyelids should be easy to fix but I might leave out the eyeball and keyframe them manually later in the clean-up process.

I tried my best to fix the stuttering and random movements of the eyes. I'm not really satisfied with the result, but I've already added 127 frames to the Retargeter and I don't think that's good for the program. Luckily majority of the stutters were caused by the eyeballs, which Dr. Kennedy mentioned would be fine to fix during clean-up.

Frame 89-166 was pretty bad with stutters, but it was a stationary expression so it will be easy to fix later on. The same goes to frame 497-527.

Reflection:

Overall the retargeting process was more time-consuming than I anticipated. I was so wrong to think that putting more time in Analyzer would reduce the time needed in Retargeter. I've no idea why the eyes were this bad in comparison, but I've tried my best to make the Retargeter produce an acceptable result. I would agree that I've yet again spent too much time on fixing the eyes. Instead, it might be better to move on to the mouth retargeting earlier, I can't imagine how the Retargeter would perform for all those complicated mouth movements.