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DAZ House Cat expressions

deepred6502deepred6502 Posts: 397
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I'm in the process of making a render with the DAZ House Cat making a smirking expression like this emoji. While the House Cat has some decent expressions as standard, they're nowhere near as flexible as the ones for human characters. I've tried D-Formers and Mesh Grabber to no avail. Any other suggestions besides one for a new product?

 

Google (Noto Color Emoji 16.0) Twitter / X (Twemoji 14.0) Microsoft - Fluent Emoji (Color)

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,363

    In my attempts with the House Cat I have found the ears are a surprising conveyor of emotion.

    My avatar cat could convey utter contempt with an ear flick and a huff. Nothing more needed. And when he was stupid enough to sit on the lawn while it rained, a full body hunch, ears out flat and a sweary mrrroww! was enough to indicate how much he hated us, the world in general and rain in particular.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,470

    this

    when adding morphs to expression editor in iClone 3DXchange for cats and other animals I use ear movements for the eyebrows as that's how animals use them

  • memcneil70memcneil70 Posts: 5,529

    2nd this. I remember an article in National Geographic online magazine about cats' expressions and what they were saying and those ears say a lot. Watching my two gingers play, watch, fight, entice, and interact with me I can attest to this. The ears are more important that that mouth, except when it is grabbing your body part to enforce its warning you ignored from its ears.

  • deepred6502deepred6502 Posts: 397

    Lo and behold...

    https://www.daz3d.com/t3d-meow-xpress-for-daz-house-cat

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,363

    Some of them look pretty good TBH.

    Regards,

    Richard

  • crosswindcrosswind Posts: 9,696
    edited February 25

    Don't forget that besides grabbing / moving, you also can rotate cat's eyes, cheeks, brows as well as mouth corners / lips with Mesh Grabber ~~ kinda like what I roughly made it as one of the emojis ~~

    Edit: Then save a morph for it ~

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