Elastic face experiments

Just a little exercise of rig / animation and Lip Sync :slight_smile:

I deliberately exaggerated the deformations to experiment a little ^^
The face is rigged with basics Shape Keys driven by bones. I used a deformation cage all around the head (for stretch & squash and more…).
The body is a personal rig finally close enough to Rigify.
I don’t know if you’ll like the result:D

probably one of if not the best face ive seen in blender.

hey! are you serious guy ? thanks a lot :wink:

I’m with the other commenter on this. Really nice animation, and that extra bit of exaggeration works perfectly for a cartoony style.

I would love to have had this level of control in my rigs. It seems this style of animation has become really popular among animators. You see it a lot in the 11 second club entries. Without it things feel quite stiff and kind of video game like. Very impressive work 3dSaM. :smiley:

That rig is pretty powerful.

Fantastic facial animation, you’re rig seems to be awesome!

Thanks a lot again for your feedback ! I’m glad that you love this work^^
I currently work on another cartoon rig (with stretchy /squashy body parts etc…) I hope you like it as much
See you soon:eyebrowlift: