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Using complementary shapes

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Using complementary shapes

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In the previous section, I showed you how to create a library of six mouth shapes, and then to blend between them. And using a system like that, it's kind of hard to go wrong. Where you can get into a little more trouble is when you start creating custom shapes on top of that, and then really interchanging between radically different shapes. So one way to stay out of trouble is to group your mouth shapes into roughly similar graphical families. So at the top level, you see happy mouth shapes. And if you notice the outline, the silhouettes of these shapes, you'll see that they actually make a reasonably clean transition, one into the other. Look at the second row, the same principle applies, the angry shapes. They all, more or less, have the same abstract shape. Let's look at them just in outline mode. So, again, on the top, it's very hard to imagine any transition from any one of these six shapes. Now I could make 20 shapes if I wanted to, but six for purposes of demonstration. It's…

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