In this collection of lessons we will learn about a wide variety of useful tools and techniques for rigging a human face.

This course covers tools and techniques for rigging the human face in Maya. Throughout the course we will focus on providing animators with the control they need to create natural expressions with a control rig that computes fast. We will also creatively explore several techniques and tools that can be used to create realistic deformations. Step by step, we will construct a facial control system that is robust and animator-friendly. We will learn everything from how to create a reverse-jaw rig, rigging with curves for flexibility, how to create sticky controls, fleshy eyes, and we will also cover how to set up preset expressions for fast animation.

Lesson Outline (55 lessons)


1. Introduction and project overview 1 min. 9 sec.



2. The expectations of the facial control rig. 1 min. 43 sec.



3. Setting up a shelf to access our rigging tools 10 min. 35 sec.



4. Building the primary bones of our head rig 7 min. 56 sec.



5. Creating the jaw bones 7 min. 54 sec.



6. Creating the eye bones 5 min. 14 sec.



7. Group hierarchy for the facial rig 7 min. 27 sec.



8. Binding the face 4 min. 29 sec.



9. Blocking in the weights of the lower jaw 7 min. 1 sec.



10. Blocking in the weights of the head 4 min. 25 sec.



11. Refine the deformations around the corners of the mouth 8 min. 48 sec.



12. Correcting the deformations of the neck and head 13 min. 29 sec.



13. Using curves to control the deformations of the eyebrows 4 min. 10 sec.



14. Rigging the brow curves with clusters 9 min. 3 sec.



15. Weighting the clusters of the brow curves 7 min. 8 sec.



16. Making the brow curves influence objects 3 min. 37 sec.



17. Fine-tuning the brow deformations 9 min. 5 sec.



18. Setting up the nose bones 7 min. 10 sec.



19. Painting weights on the nose 10 min. 9 sec.



20. Beginning the lip rig 8 min. 35 sec.



21. Blocking the weights of the lips / connecting the blend shap... 11 min. 39 sec.



22. Correcting the deformations of the lips 11 min. 3 sec.



23. Finishing the lip deformations 7 min. 51 sec.



24. Building the eye lid rig 4 min. 26 sec.



25. Deforming the eye lids 14 min. 58 sec.



26. Beginning the fleshy eye rig 4 min. 6 sec.



27. Wrapping up the fleshy eye rig 8 min. 25 sec.



28. Setting up the cheek deformations 8 min. 17 sec.



29. Tying the cheek shapes to the blend shape head 9 min. 13 sec.



30. Completing the cheek rig 7 min. 30 sec.



31. Extra cheek deformations 6 min. 55 sec.



32. Setting up the lip rolls 7 min. 5 sec.



33. Finishing the lip roll functionality 12 min. 18 sec.



34. Creating animation controls for the head and neck 11 min. 1 sec.



35. The Jaw controls 10 min. 27 sec.



36. Setting up a system to glue the lip controls to the face 8 min. 25 sec.



37. Finishing the lip connection meshes for the sticky controls 6 min. 56 sec.



38. Gluing the lip controls to the mouth 7 min. 10 sec.



39. The lip controls 12 min. 46 sec.



40. Driving the lip clusters with the lip controls 5 min. 43 sec.



41. Building a control to translate the mouth 10 min. 11 sec.



42. Custom attributes for the lip rolls and cheek expansion shap... 4 min. 47 sec.



43. Creating the nose controls 5 min. 19 sec.



44. Completing the nose rig 4 min. 44 sec.



45. Rigging the eyes 2 min. 31 sec.



46. The eye controls 6 min. 11 sec.



47. Finalizing the eye rig 5 min. 13 sec.



48. The brow controls 4 min. 54 sec.



49. Creating tongue bones / binding the tongue mesh 8 min. 1 sec.



50. Finishing the tongue rig 11 min. 5 sec.



51. Trouble-shooting the lip controls 5 min. 54 sec.



52. Cleaning up the control rig 2 min. 41 sec.



53. Character sets for animation 4 min. 31 sec.



54. Preset expressions for fast animation 6 min. 20 sec.



55. Connecting the facial rig to a character control rig 7 min. 17 sec.


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