Plotting facial animation

After you created your facial animation, you need to plot the animation if you want to import it into other compatible 3D software.

To plot facial animation:

1. Select the model and all its shapes.
2. In the Character Face Animation pane, click Plot Animation. (See Character Face Animation pane.)
3. In the Facial dialog that appears, select the plotting options you want to use.
   
   

   Facial plotting dialog

4. Select one of the two plotting options in the Facial dialog box:

   Option	Function
   Plot on Frame	Activate Plot On Frame to resample the data based on the specified frame rate, and ensure that data is plotted on exact frames. Keyframes are set on each frame of the animation. This is the default setting.
   Plot All Takes	Activate Plot All Takes to plot the data from all takes to a selected model. Plot all takes to your model if you intend to export the animation to other software.

5. Set any filtering options you might need.
6. Click Plot. Once all the animation is plotted to the model, you can save your .fbx file and import it into other compatible 3D software, or reuse it in MotionBuilder.

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