I’ve been seeing some really nice facial rigs lately and I was wondering how such rigs were made. This movie shows my latest attempt. I want as much control for this short as Ninoly possible. Blendshapes are still a possibility but I think that I’ll have more control for facial expressions if the main facial elements could be moved dynamically without affecting the current expression.

The test below is still being modified. But so far it has worked better than my old way of using blendshapes. I haven’t run into any major issues yet so thats always a good sign.

Click Image to view (13MB MOV 2 Mins)
Apologies for the terrible compression.

Some of the useful links that made me think about this:

Pixar library
Keith Lango

Ive just noticed that this site does not display correctly on IE. But here’s a tip – don’t use IE.

During the next few days I’ll be putting up some of the development concepts that have been sitting in my sketch books for a while now.

…to The Flower foe. A short film by Nino Aniceto