Facial rigging for Maya 2009

[Laa-Yosh]

The stuff in the Hyper-real rigging courses is still valid to this day. I recall 2 DVDs about facial rigging and at least one more about blendshape modeling, I suggest you try to find these.

[chovasie1]

for sure you should check that gnomon hyper real facial rigging because nothing is really changed from that time so far... also you should ( MUST ) have and read Jasons Osipa "stop staring" book for facial rigging in maya... but you can use it like foundation in every software as well...


chovasie

[brendangottlieb]

Can anybody post a link to send me in the right direction?

[toRigOrNotToRig]

Buy Jason Osipa's Stop Staring (http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Staring-Facial-Modeling-Animation/dp/0782141293) book. Seriously, that's all you need. It's $35 and worth every single penny. You will probably not find any tutorial online that's even half as good as the rig in that book.

[ydiaz]

I've been told Fahrenheit Digital's facial rigging for feature animation (http://www.fahrenheitdigital.com/dvds/rigging/facial-rigging-dvd.php) is quite good, haven't seen it though.

[chovasie1]

fahrenheit is really good too, but much more advanced with custom cartoon squash and stretch controls... i think that you should start with Jason Osipa's book in first place... Because someone who's not that familiar with basic facial rigging easily could get lost with fahrenheit... (http://www.fahrenheitdigital.com/dvds/rigging/facial-rigging-dvd.php)

chovasie...

[ragdoll]

i've been wanting to buy fahrenheits dvd's...but their site has been like this... "We will return shortly, please check back soon. Sorry for the inconvenience." for a long time now...

anyone know where i can buy their dvds outside their site? or anyone know when the site will go back live again?

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