Chapter 9. Eye and Brow Keys

In Chapter 6, "Mouth Keys," we looked at all the keys to build for the mouth, which is easily the more complicated of the two areas for keys. This is the other, simpler area. With the brows, it's shorter, sweeter, and though it has just a few more technical details, overall it's a much faster process. I can't recall the last time a good first pass at a brow key set took me more than one single sitting to build. As soon as you get into using textures or separate brow objects to help create a character, things can heat up as far as complexities and time go, but not so much that I can't talk you through it!

A reminder: As with the mouth shapes in Chapter 6, I recommend you have the whole head built before tackling the ...

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