face rig for game character animation

Obstfelder

I'm working on a face rig for a Unity game (hope this is the right place for that).

I'm building it with a lot of blend shapes, so I need to test it and remove some things probably. There will only ever be one or two of these on the screen at a time though, so I'm hoping it'll work out.

Here is a small test of some expressions. Still need to balance the shape keys better, but I feel like I'm getting close to something usable.


https://youtu.be/x4vGVWJknYk

https://youtu.be/BPiSWuU2-b8

Obstfelder

I think the rig is in a usable state now. Could use more work to make it more robust, and I also need to put in place a couple of controllers so I can overide a few shapekeys for certain expressions. I would also like to simplify a few things. There are a whole bunch of controllers like you can see in the video below, and it would get confusing to use for anyone but me I'm affraid.

https://youtu.be/A5YpIoxwjmI

Obstfelder

Did some work on the character modelling, and made a pass on the eye shapes to have more expressions.

https://youtu.be/44jEmzV7fA8

Obstfelder

Added the ability to hold props. More complicated than I initially thought to get all the possibilities that I wanted into this rig.

https://youtu.be/JtSZLo-cELQ

Green_Cheek_Conure

These are really starting to look cool!

Obstfelder

Thank you! I feel like I've been making progress

I've started working on more costumes:



And here are a couple more videos. One that shows the controls I've set up for the "hold object" rig. I'd be interested to know if anyone else likes to set up their rigs in this way.

https://youtu.be/BPiSWuU2-b8

https://youtu.be/x4vGVWJknYk