I’ve decided to release my face rig - free to anyone for any use. I don’t even care if I’m notified or credited.
It was just sitting on my hard drive collecting dust.
As far as I know this is the most detailed face rig freely available to blender users outside of the Orange project. While there are certainly excellent free rigs available, the facial expressions component of those rigs are very simple. This set of blendshapes, is based on the excellent book ‘Stop Staring’, by Jason Osipa.
I made it mostly as an exercise to become familiar with the process.
note: the eyes are not completely hooked up, ie., there is no separate control for right or left blinking. some enterprising individual might want to finish it and repost. also, the new pydrivers feature in CVS will allow texture maps to be hooked up to the controls. so, for example, a bump map covering the forehead could be activated when the character raises his eyebrows, creating the creasing in the forehead. this wasn’t possible when i started this project.
I’ve been looking for more .blends like this to study off of. I’ve been preparing my old (Very bad Topology) characters for facial animation and fixing them up and such. This is just what I needed.
Great work.
For some reason, you’ve set this up so that everything points in the positive y-zxis. Is there any reason for this? Having it face towards you in Front View would make more sense.
i was battling the ‘mirror RVKs’ script, which was quite useful but confusing, and this is what worked for me, through trial and error. i should note that the mirror RVKs script is essential to a project like this, without it this would not have been possible.
if you grab the head and rotate it 90 or 180 or whatever degrees on the z axis, it should be fine.
This is amazing…! I’ve gotta learn this! NOW! UAAH! Great work!
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Roja: It might be the buttons in the editing-menu, “Slower draw”, “Faster draw”. Try making a sphere, have it selected in obj. mode, and press “Faster draw” repeatingly, and some edges will dissappear. Opposite when “Slower draw” is pressed.
