Check out this rigging reel by Wesley Schneider showcasing a wide range of lovely characters.
Below is another demo showcasing some of his facial rigging features!
Facial Setup
Skin rolling deform on upper eyelid
Nice fleshy eye setup by Paul smith!
Ismail FIDAN – Face Rig & Facial Motion Capture
Facial mo-cap setup done by Ismail Fidan using bone based facial rig.
Facial Rig Mocap RD ~ Softimage
Facial motion capture done by re-targeting motion performance data into a facerobot rig.
Wire deformer for jaw deformation
Mr. Marco Giordano goes over sharing some tips and tricks on using wire deformer. Wire tools can be a very powerful medium to create a fast and customizable rigs.
Here is another wonderful tutorial on using nurbs curve as an influence object to drive facial expression http://www.creativecrash.com/tutorials/facial-animation-rig-for-delgo 🙂
Chris Pagoria Bird Rig
“Now I am confused … Whaaaa!?” ~ Lovely facial setup and animation by Chris Pagoria 🙂
Facial Pose Test
Pose test showing some fantastic facial shapes by Michael Palleschi. I wonder how much time and attention to detail it must have taken to the sculpting on such hi resolution mesh!
Fast and Efficient Facial Setup
Check out the methodology and techniques on facial rigging pipeline tools created for the production of Gears of War 3 by Jeremy Ernst.
Facial Rigging – FIB Project
Check out this cool demo on facial rigging by Ricardo Jost Resende! Really expressive facial setup derived from nice sculpts and simple UI. It’s fun to watch 🙂
He mentioned that this is his first facial rigging looking at Stop Starring book by Jason Osipa!
Tools based on Osipa by Liu
Automated tools demo for facial setup based on blendshapes created by Liu derived from Jason Osipa style joystick based blendshape driven facial setup. This could be a good reference for anyone trying to recreate Osipa style setup quickly and efficiently using custom tools.