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Archive for May, 2009

Rig update 3½ – face setup

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

For the curious, here’s all the curves, nurbs and nulls driving the face setup. It looks a mess, but I assure you there is some method to the madness, and after it’s all hidden away the controls are, I think, quite nice and simple to use.

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Rig update 3 – face weighting

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Primary face weighting is more or less done, now I just need to sculpt corrective shapes on the eyebrows and mouth to get certain expressions looking the way I want. Here’s some test poses of the weighting so far:

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