[0:00] guys I have a tutorial for the new life
[0:02] 2D meta 180° head turn Okay joking to be
[0:07] honest a 45° angle is sufficient for
[0:10] streaming but just in case you don't
[0:11] want your model to be stuck perpetually
[0:13] on this angle and you want your viewers
[0:15] to go wo your model can turn to the side
[0:18] then I got a tutorial for
[0:20] you 180° is more of a flex than actually
[0:24] being practical or if you're bigger it
[0:28] could be an addition to your commission
[0:29] price list obviously charge where you're
[0:32] comfortable with charging but once you
[0:34] master this you can easily charge over
[0:36] 400 USD for this fature you know just a
[0:39] starting price recommendation since it's
[0:41] pretty Niche okay so for this tutorial
[0:44] I'm going to expand on poooo you may
[0:46] need to follow my beginner series at
[0:48] least the head x white part to
[0:50] understand my deformer hierarchy and I
[0:53] would not classify this as a beginner
[0:55] tutorial because it's kind of difficult
[0:57] bro also this tutorial is my own process
[1:00] I haven't watched other tutorials but if
[1:02] you have better methods let me
[1:04] know so first the layer preparation I
[1:07] made this side profile sketch for
[1:09] reference definitely recommend it if
[1:11] it's your first time and I also have the
[1:13] nose line and nose base that I'm going
[1:15] to turn into the side nose and last I
[1:18] have the entire side profile as
[1:20] underfill as well as upper lip and lower
[1:22] lip and their coding underfills you
[1:24] could get away without this folder like
[1:26] my model didn't have it but just for
[1:29] consistency sake so now we can go ahead
[1:31] and import the PSD onto my poooo
[1:35] model and delete the background and I'm
[1:38] just recoloring my sketch so that it's
[1:40] more visible then adjust my imported
[1:43] file to align with the
[1:46] model some standard
[1:48] meshing more
[1:52] centering then put the layers in their
[1:54] recording folders and deformers nose
[1:57] line and nose base goes in nose and
[1:59] previously already have a nose line so I
[2:02] don't really need the new one I just
[2:03] delete that also put the nose base in
[2:05] nose XY then put all the under fills in
[2:08] one folder and put it under the
[2:17] face and the mouth side just over the
[2:20] face
[2:23] base okay now I'm going to expand angle
[2:26] X so edit the parameter and turn the
[2:30] maximum and minimum to 60 and
[2:36] 60 then right click on the parameter
[2:40] select to select everything attached to
[2:43] the parameter then add three key points
[2:45] to cover up the maximum and minimum
[2:48] slide all the way to the left and we're
[2:49] going to start rigging this side profile
[2:52] just adjusting my reference a bit more I
[2:55] forgot how you make a guide image out of
[2:57] a layer instead of reimporting the whole
[2:59] PS
[3:00] so I'm just locking it and I start
[3:02] deforming on my head XY this is the most
[3:06] trust the process thing I have to do in
[3:08] my whole rigging career and also because
[3:10] my nose XY is not inside of head XY so I
[3:13] have to individually deform that so I
[3:16] realized my nose mask is popping out but
[3:18] that didn't need to be seen so I lowered
[3:21] the opacity to zero and after adding key
[3:24] points and deforming my nose base I
[3:27] realized that my nose mask is only
[3:29] invisible at that one key point so I
[3:32] went into multiple Keys editing and
[3:35] lowered the opacity in there so that it
[3:37] applies to all my key forms so as you
[3:40] can see there are a lot of things you
[3:42] have to fix to hide the face line I just
[3:45] inverse clipped it to my side
[3:54] mouth so I tried to do most of the
[3:56] rigging on head XY just because after
[3:59] four corner synthesizing I can do all
[4:01] the four corner adjustments on head XY
[4:04] and keeping it minimal on all the other
[4:06] deformers okay and I finally had enough
[4:08] of him staring to my soul so I'm just
[4:10] going to deform eyes XY and also
[4:14] eyebrows
[4:15] XY so basically anything that was
[4:18] attached to angle XY beforehand I can
[4:21] just directly deform at the side profile
[4:26] too and that includes my Iris XY
[4:31] so continue adjusting anything that you
[4:33] think needs
[4:36] adjustments for the mouth side I created
[4:39] a deformer and I put that in head XY and
[4:43] I gave it key points but I soon realized
[4:45] that it's doing this really weird effect
[4:47] when it's in head XY when you're
[4:49] adjusting things inside of head XY the
[4:52] things that are close to the squished
[4:54] border basically um they're going to do
[4:56] this weird effect where they're going to
[4:58] stretch and then come back
[5:00] and that's because the children of the
[5:01] squished parent deformer is moving and
[5:04] it's like following that squished
[5:06] movement that the parent deformer had so
[5:08] for the mouth side I just drag it
[5:10] outside of head XY and it's good but for
[5:13] the minor stuff like the hair we can
[5:14] leave it inside of head X Y because when
[5:17] we synthesize Corners we'll need to put
[5:19] everything back in head X Y again and
[5:21] then synthesize and only afterwards we
[5:24] can drag it outside so it fixes the
[5:27] weird warping motion so all this to say
[5:30] as long as a child object is attached to
[5:33] the same parameters as its parents it
[5:35] doesn't matter if it's inside the parent
[5:37] anymore okay and just continue rigging
[5:40] until your model matches your reference
[5:43] picture and to fix you know the hair
[5:46] overlapping your nose I'm basically just
[5:49] putting an invert mask of my side nose
[5:51] onto my hair also put the underfill as a
[5:54] mask
[5:56] too this solution is good for short hair
[5:59] but if it's longer hair you might want
[6:01] to play with the draw order like in this
[6:04] example later on I'm going to use this
[6:06] piece of hair to cover up that Gap but
[6:10] first I have to separate my left hair to
[6:12] right hair so I just copied it and
[6:14] erased half for one and then erase the
[6:17] other half for the
[6:21] other and when I turn to the right I'm
[6:24] going to lower the draw order just by
[6:26] one if you have other hair that's on the
[6:28] back that's over lapping you can lower
[6:30] those by two now I'm going to choose a
[6:34] portion of the hair when it's still
[6:36] pretty thick shift control C and then
[6:39] shift control V at the side profile so
[6:43] that it stays thick and covers up
[6:45] whatever I need to cover and just you
[6:47] know fix all the minor things you need
[6:49] to fix attention to detail you know side
[6:52] profile is not a hard concept to do but
[6:56] there's just so much fixing in all the
[6:58] details that it's pretty time consuming
[7:01] I would say okay so back to when we only
[7:04] had one side profile we are going to
[7:07] horizontally flip it once you're done so
[7:10] right click on angle X select everything
[7:12] uh deselect the ones that are not
[7:16] symmetrical like pupil XY but it's okay
[7:19] if you miss them because we can always
[7:20] fix it later so horizontally reflect I
[7:24] definitely missed the
[7:25] ears so to fix the weird reflected stuff
[7:29] you can go to x at 30 shift control C
[7:33] then go back to 60 and shift control
[7:42] V and as for this side mouth you can
[7:45] just flip it yourself or I reflected it
[7:49] control shift C undo and then control
[7:52] shift
[7:58] V e
[8:49] and when you are done with your two side
[8:52] profiles it is now time to synthesize
[8:55] Corners so right click on angle X again
[8:57] select everything synthesize
[9:00] corners and um it's going to look
[9:02] something like this okay my nose is
[9:04] having some problems but it's okay don't
[9:07] worry about that for now actually I
[9:09] recommend making the nose invisible and
[9:11] we're going to come back to those later
[9:13] and we are now going to adjust the Four
[9:17] Corners the scariest part so I kind of
[9:20] came up with this trick so make a new
[9:23] parameter call it Corners check blend
[9:25] shape on head XY add three key points go
[9:29] to angle X at -30 and angle Y at 30
[9:32] control shift C and then go to Corners
[9:35] at 30 control shift V so because blend
[9:38] shapes will register movements
[9:40] regardless of other parameter key points
[9:42] as long as I register this tilting
[9:44] motion I can go to the side profile and
[9:47] apply that tilting motion here okay but
[9:49] we're going to do the same for angle Y
[9:51] at -30 so shift copy it and paste it on
[9:55] Corners at -30 so it's going to look a
[9:57] bit something like this obviously the
[9:59] nose is messed up but it's okay we're
[10:01] going to fix the nose later so I just
[10:03] made the nose visible and now I'm going
[10:04] to use the blend shape to like choose a
[10:07] point in the model where I feel like it
[10:09] fits the tilting at the side profile crl
[10:12] shift C and go back to angle X at -60 Y
[10:16] at 30 Corners at zero and control shift
[10:19] v um play around with the head to see if
[10:22] the motion is smooth um and I feel like
[10:25] I could use a bit more tilting so I just
[10:28] used my Corner blend shape again and
[10:31] then shift copy paste it so the same
[10:34] thing with angle Y at -30 um this time
[10:37] the corners is at -30 and I choose a
[10:40] point and shift copy paste
[10:44] it so now the general tilting motion is
[10:48] done I'm going to start manually
[10:50] adjusting things but you're going to
[10:52] notice that life 2D does not like your
[10:54] deformers overlapping and when you use
[10:56] the green dots it's going to have this
[10:58] weird bug so we cannot use the green
[11:00] dots now we're going to use deform
[11:03] brush okay but before this folded face
[11:07] Shadow is bugging me very much and
[11:09] that's because of how head XY is just
[11:12] folding upon itself so I'm going to fix
[11:14] this by selecting the folding part find
[11:18] a spot where it's not folding upon
[11:20] itself control shift C and control shift
[11:24] V so do the same for the upward tilting
[11:28] I find that the hair is
[11:30] folding too much upon itself over here
[11:34] so I just select it a part of the face
[11:37] and shift copy paste it you can probably
[11:40] tell by now that this is my favorite
[11:42] function to use in live 2D and the free
[11:44] version does not have this function so
[11:46] make use of the free trial please and
[11:50] now I finally remember to check how the
[11:52] mouth open looks at the side profile and
[11:54] I realized that there's this bug thingy
[11:58] and it's because of of the lower lip
[12:00] folding upon itself you really need to
[12:03] find the root of these problems and for
[12:06] me I think it's because these dots are
[12:09] too close when the mouth opens so I just
[12:11] need to move it lower
[12:31] okay now I'm going to make my nose and
[12:33] mouth side visible um they look
[12:35] atrocious um because they're inside of
[12:38] head XY and following head xy's
[12:40] spherical motion which does not fit the
[12:43] nose so we're going to drag that outside
[12:45] and resynthesize corners only for the
[12:48] nose and here I realized I haven't added
[12:50] all the parameters from outside so I'm
[12:52] going to go ahead and add angle y so
[12:55] that it will inherit the angle y from
[12:57] nose XY
[12:59] and so now I can drag it
[13:01] outside so at this point this is my
[13:04] hierarchy now I can start manually
[13:07] adjusting the nose along with the face
[13:10] you know everything else later
[13:16] on I'm going to skip ahead a little bit
[13:18] to adjust the mouth the way I have it
[13:21] set up it's pretty straightforward just
[13:24] attach two key frames to mouth open on
[13:27] the lower lip and its underfill and just
[13:29] drag it down when the mouth
[13:33] opens and my epis also had some movement
[13:36] so I just mve that
[13:38] too and I forgot to do this here but you
[13:41] should also probably deform the inner
[13:44] mouth XY bit
[13:47] more if you have V Bridger you have to
[13:50] consider the V Bridger parameters too a
[13:53] mouth X mouth shrug cheek puff and jaw
[13:56] open probably need the nose and the side
[13:59] mouth to also be attached to it and do
[14:01] some
[14:17] movements now we need to adjust the hair
[14:20] at the Four Corners you're going to
[14:22] notice a bit difficulty when you're
[14:24] trying to adjust the hair while it's
[14:25] still inside of head XY and we only
[14:28] needed it inside of head XY to synthesiz
[14:30] Corners now that's done we can drag it
[14:32] outside of head
[14:36] XY and just continue deforming with the
[14:39] brush
[15:03] so when I'm riging the ears I also drag
[15:06] that outside of head
[15:18] XY so we're almost done at this point
[15:21] you're going to notice that the emotes
[15:23] are not working well with the side
[15:24] profile so what I do is that I make a
[15:28] deformer on top the
[15:30] emotes and let's pretend there are other
[15:32] emotes inside this deformer like scared
[15:34] and stuff so I'm going to attach it to
[15:37] all my X and Y key points drag that
[15:40] outside of head XY shift copy paste a
[15:43] point where it's not folding as much
[15:46] like it's going to come off the face a
[15:47] little bit but it's okay in my opinion
[15:51] it's just a minor little thing it's
[15:53] better than it folding upon itself yeah
[15:55] so I reflect the motion and I drag the
[15:58] Emos for back in head XY to synthesized
[16:01] corners only for the emotes do not ever
[16:03] touch the head XY synthesized Corners
[16:05] ever again and when that's done I can
[16:08] drag my emotes outside of head
[16:13] XY so another thing I found out while
[16:16] testing is that my ears will go through
[16:18] the face um because it's layered in
[16:20] front of the face so I'm going to move
[16:22] it to the back of the face um but I also
[16:26] want it in front of that layer of hair
[16:28] so I'm just just going to inverse clip
[16:30] my ears to that
[16:33] hair but then his balding head is string
[16:36] through so I just indented his skull
[16:40] yeah that's a fix so one last little
[16:43] detail fixing you can do is you can add
[16:46] a key point to somewhere really close to
[16:49] - 60 like 50 because I find that while
[16:53] tracking your face rests at around this
[16:56] key Point fairly often so you will want
[16:58] it to look perfect like make the cheeks
[17:00] puffier and pay more attention to the
[17:02] nose but do remember that each key point
[17:05] you add on angle X um there's two more
[17:08] on angle y you have to rig so let's say
[17:11] you are finally ready to export while
[17:14] put all the textures in the textures
[17:16] Atlas you would want to invert the angle
[17:19] Y and angle Zed at side profile because
[17:23] you'll notice when you nod there that's
[17:25] still tracking angle y but angle y side
[17:27] profile is tilting instead of doing it
[17:29] in live 2D I have been told a much
[17:32] easier way which is to do it with v
[17:34] Bridger functions I followed the amazing
[17:37] hamster crumbs functions and it saves my
[17:39] Life Link in the description just if you
[17:42] want more accurate side profile tracking
[17:44] but honestly if you don't want to pay
[17:46] for custom V Bridger you can get away
[17:48] without this and finally the last thing
[17:51] to do is to adjust the range of face
[17:55] Left Right rotation which is angle X and
[17:58] also B body X and you are done
[18:02] congratulations okay actually you're
[18:04] probably going to find more bugs when
[18:05] you're testing uh and you're going to go
[18:07] back to Lefty and fix it like I probably
[18:11] forgot things too and it's not super
[18:13] polished like some hair is kind of bad
[18:15] looking but it's okay good luck guys