MAYA / how to make character look directly to camera?

focus_method · May 2023

Hi,

i am creating 3d character artwork for my personal project, work in progress...
so i want him to look directly to the camera from which im rendering my main shot. How to do it ?
i centered cluster in the both eyes and then snapped locator in each of them in the middle of the eyes

Alex_J · May 2023

You are asking how to rig them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G2ffEOmbuo&themeRefresh=1

If just doing a simple pose or even a simple animation, you can just keyframe the vertices. Select all verts of the eye, set a keyframe at default position, go to another frame, rotate the vertices so that eye faces desired location, set a keyframe.

Reason to key default is so that you can return to it easily.

focus_method · May 2023

i dont want to rig them

Alex_J · May 2023

try the second thing i suggested then, thats why i mentioned it

killnpc · May 2023

Add look-at constraints to the eyeballs and point them to the camera object or a dummy object.

focus_method · May 2023

thanks guys, will try those methods

MAYA / how to make character look directly to camera?

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