An animator friend of mine is starting to dive into the realm of facial animation so I promised him I’d dig up as many resources on Facial Rigging as I could.  So instead of just sending it over to him I figured otheres might be able to benefit from my hard work :)   This is primarily for Maya users .


Here’s a 2 Part Series:

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Here’s a big 7 Parter that goes into some great advanced Detail:

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Quick Tut expaining some of the principles behind facial animation:

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Facial Animation Rig for Delgo: Not a  video tut but this covers some non-human faces which is rare

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/tutorials/character/c/facial-animation-rig-for-delgo

This page is not animation specific but HOLY CRAP the tutorials on this page are insane:

http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/06/45-incredible-maya-tutorials-around/