adding asymmetry to a human head - at what time?

[Piflik]

I'd do it after I finished the Head (finished as in a complete symmetrical finished head...).

(The following is using Max...)
Model one half of the Head, apply Symmetry Modifier and add a edit Poly Modifier on top of the Symmetry. Then tweak the head using Soft Selection until your satisfied with the asymmetry.

[Ohlda]

This might give me a hard time when it comes to blendshapes (the head is getting animated later, HD, close ups)

I hope that there might be an established workflow how to add asymmetry after creating blendshapes without disturbing the blendshapes

at the moment I plan to create a blendshape for the (skull-)asymmetry that I will turn to 1 when it comes to animation;
So I can create the blendshapes using the symmetric head - and if I want to test if they also work with the asymmetric head, I just turn the asymmetric blendshape up to 1 and check if the blendshapes still work.

hope I am right with this approach

[musashidan]

You could use additive blendshapes. So for example: just stack an asymmetrically tweaked version of smirk/frown/whatever on top.

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