blinking puppet

Hi, i am haveing trouble animating a puppet blinking, i have used the reshape effect, marked the eyelid and after that making a second mask covering the entire eye, i guessed that would cover the entire eye with the eyelid expanded but the only thig it did was strech everything, in fact, it worked better with the second mask not covering the entire eye, but moving it down the eye, anyways, the eye always looks completly stretched, not covered, is there any other technique i could use or any other setup on the reshape effect that could make what i need? thanks in advance

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I just make the eyes open and eyes closed two different layers. Then I write a wiggle expression in the opacity of the open eyes that says if the wiggle value is over a certain number, then the opacity of that layer is 100, if it isn't then it's 0. Then I just place the closed eyes underneath - or you could write in expression in that opacity that says if the open eyes are 100, then opacity is 0 and if open eyes are 0 then opacity is 100.


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Sincerely,

George

Yes, but it's easy and random so it gives a pretty good effect.

You could also just make the eye blinking a precomp and hand draw the frames as you want in 3 frames (open, half closed, closed) and then do a time remap of that precomp and use the 3 keyframes as you like. Blinking is fast, so don't worry about putting too many frames in there.


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Sincerely,

George

That is a nice idea, i think i'll go that way, with three frames, open wide, half closed and closed down.
With the reshape tool i got to this state, but it is not perfect at all...

As you can see the left pupil doesn't move correctly and stays a little bit up...

I'll give it a try this weekend and post results with the eyelids layers and a few more frames, thanks a lot :D