[Black Tulip] Anim - BENTO Default Facial Expressions
With Bento, we have new possibilities creating animations. But that doesn't mean you have to ditch all your old animations waiting for new Bento ones. This pack of default facial expressions animations will enhance your already purchased pre-Bento animations. They mimic the system avatar facial expressions, triggered for two seconds and stopping after that.
They're priority 5 and 6. This is to allow overlappings.
IMPORTANT: There are many possible riggings for Bento mesh heads and in some of them these poses may not look well. This is something that we can not help. We've tested the poses in Lelutka, LAQ, Vista and some models of Catwa. We cannot assure that they will look perfect in every model of head that is out there because there is not a perfect facial expression that works the same for every head. It's technically impossible. If this is a problem to you, we recommend NOT to purchase these poses. Try them out at the store with different heads to make sure that you like them.
A mixed bag
I tried these on Catwa Catya. The results were not great. Many of the animations only moved a few parts of the face, resulting in transitions (and expressions) that were uncanny. I don't think this is an issue with Catya, either, as the express_surprise_emote animation doesn't move the jaw, it simply stretches the lips (which is definitely... something within the possibility of human expression, but not a very normal one.) In all, I think these were rushed, and need more work.
It would have been very nice if there were a main store in-world or time-limited demo for testing these before purchase!