Character Facial Rigging for Production - A former CGMA 8-weeks course

This is all the content for the 8-weeks Facial Rigging course that I ran at CG Masters Academy for over 2 years, and now you can follow it at your own pace.

This series of tutorials will serve as an in-depth introduction to Facial Rigging, starting from scratch, with an introducion about facial expressions and covering all the basics. And then step by step building a fully functional face rig.

The level is beginner to intermediate as we advance in the tutorial.

23+ hours of lessons!

You can follow it with the same model as in the videos (model work by Hannah King) or apply it to your own models.

Content:

Week 1 - Introduction and Facial Expressions
Week 2 - FACS and Topology
Week 3 - Basic structure of the Rig
Week 4 - Sculping some Key BlendShapes
Week 5 - Splitting the BlendShapes and putting them in our rig
Week 6 - Eye and Mouth Setups
Week 7 - Basic and Cartoon Eyelid Setup
Week 8 - Finalize and CleanUp the Rig