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Face posing is hard to begin. Because its a constant back and forth of multiple things: "How do I want the neutral to be" "Can the rig allow certain things" "What style do I want to animate the character" And you can see that with the amount of trial...

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Jonesy2 months ago

Making neutral face poses is key. They are genuinely the starting stone to any face posing work and figuring out who your character is

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Jonesy2 months ago

Rig for Norspil made by @xXGariyuuXx (Genuinely they are a god send, They really were helpful with getting this rig made for animation purposes)

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Jonesy2 months ago

This is usually the part where after I’d start using a mirror and references to find neutral positions to polish up a bit more. I’ll do a bit more in-depth on that on how the face kind of works and translating it onto characters to fit them themselves

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✙CharismaticChaos✙2 months ago

Pretty basic stuff once you understand how the muscle groups work. All the trial and error usually stems from a lack of adequate reference material. Just practice!

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Jonesy2 months ago

Nah I meant the trial and error was due to the rig :) If you look, the way it translates causes problems, the frontalis muscles around the top work fine, but when trying to translate up it causes some deformation problems I had a ton of reference and my own on the side!

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Jonesy2 months ago

But you are right! Pretty much most common issues I see are with the eyebrows not being connected though, reference and more is king, my favourite book is usually Classic anatomy by Winslow Valarie, then universal face expression is a good website too!

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Hipster The Lunos2 months ago

The refinement is super impressive mate! Honestly, you half tempt me to try animation

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Lucky2 months ago

I’d kill for a rig in Maya ;w;

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AlphaTrenches2 months ago

Please anyone I need an avatar creator

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cactua2 months ago

This is fantastic

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PJ/LaserCrema 🔜 Denfur, fluuf, Bunkerbeats2 months ago

Looks awsome

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