facial rigging "pooby"-style

[Hirazi Blue]

In our quest to free a whole lot of valuable Softimage material from so-called file-hosters,
si-community is proud to present "a series of short-ish tutorials on facial rigging pooby-style ie using nurbs surfaces" by Paul Smith AKA "pooby"...
8 videos in total and 1 rar-file
and all embedded (ah, that's what the wmv-tags are for ) as well as downloadable...

Enjoy!!! ;)

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tu ... erig01.wmv[/wmv]
Part 1: RMB + Save Target As

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tu ... erig02.wmv[/wmv]
Part 2: RMB + Save Target As

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tu ... erig03.wmv[/wmv]
Part 3: RMB + Save Target As

[Hirazi Blue]

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tuts/pooby/facerig3showoff.wmv[/wmv]
Part 4: RMB + Save Target As

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tuts/pooby/Facerig04.wmv[/wmv]
Part 5: RMB + Save Target As

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tuts/pooby/Facerig05.wmv[/wmv]
Part 6: RMB + Save Target As

[Hirazi Blue]

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tu ... erig06.wmv[/wmv]
Part 7: RMB + Save Target As

[wmv]http://www.si-community.com/download/tu ... apping.wmv[/wmv]
Part 8: RMB + Save Target As

Additional file download:
facerignogeometry.rar: RMB + Save Target As

[farhaad_yousefi]

wooow. totally blowed my mind.!! i think best facial rig tutorial i've seen yet.! two thumbs up.!!

[Diurno]

amazing!!! there's any chance to have also the model to dowload? cause right now i don't have any good head mesh on my pc ^^

[mike_b]

Here's a little eyelid rig based on the ideas of Pooby's cool facial setup.
Basically it's a nurbs sphere (named Eyelid_Deformer_Surface) with a bunch of nulls constrained to the surface that pulls the eyelid (Eyelid_Mesh) mesh around when you animate the End U parameter of the surface.
You can also animate the surface to squash'n stretch the eyelid as needed.
Its probably not that neatly finished, but the concept is there and it works pretty well.
Thanks to Pooby for the inspiration!
Mike

[amincgi]

thank you

[Caveman]

Fantastic

[rray]

Just noticed that this thread was mentioned in the "end credits" of this making-of video:



full short film:



seems maya mostly.. nevertheless

[punchatz]

This a great tutorial so far, but I seem to be having issues with video 4.

Thanks!
Greg

[Hirazi Blue]

You're right. It should be fixed now (I hope)
(More than 3470 Page Views and you're apparently the first one who got to Part 4/mentioned the shameful link error )