How to make a 2d face rig in Blender | Part 1

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[@fivefingerfullprice3403]

_Don't you hate it when you can't find a 2D face rig in Blender_ LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED FROM THERE.

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

hehe

[@natto6606]

Just what I was going through until I found this tutorial :D

[@void1149]

this channel is really underrated

[@MasterOshawott]

I remember YEARS ago, when I was working on a LEGO model in Blender, I searched frantically trying to figure out how to best animate a 2D face. Spoilers, I really didn't find much. XP (There was stuff about animating textures though it wasn't super convenient for workflow.) Now I'm planing on making a new LEGO rig in Blender again and I stumble upon this tutorial. The timing couldn't be better and it's exactly what I will need! You are a blessing.

[@citrinesanimations]

MasterOshawott you’re welcome! Same thing happened to me. I as well was searching forever to find something. After awhile I found someone who figured out a method similar to what I show you what to do in this tutorial. Basically I remade it, and figured out better ways of doing things. Then I figured I would make a tutorial on how to make it so that I can help others. I’m glad that I could help, and I wish you good luck on your project!

[@MasterOshawott]

Citrine's Animations Of course! :D I did attempt using a method like this about a year ago, though I couldn't figure out what modifier to have the face "warp to the LEGO head" if you follow. So again, super greatful you created this! Been meaning to get back into Blender, though I'm mostly wanting to use it for Rotoscoping 2D animations I draw in TV Paint. So I probably won't have to worry too much about animating faces, however it's still useful to know in case I ever do want to do something along those lines. :) Now, I just need to stop getting distracted with Minecraft and make that Blender Donut that I've been meaning to do for the last month....

[@KRUGSTON]

You're an actual legend dude - will be using this in a future video for sure! Thanks for taking the time out of your day to make this

[@citrinesanimations]

Omg! I love your channel! Thanks so much, and you're welcome!

[@powerofthec5908]

Ah yes, my sleep paralysis demon airoah.

[@thefirebeanie5481]

what the heck how did i find him HERE if you're reading this Krugston i want you to know I'm gonna keep watching this even though i was gonna look for a different tutorial

[@NicoleHam]

I really cant believe theres little to no tutorials on this, I thought this would be a no brainer. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE!!

[@lucasbdantas]

Such a simple and effective idea, very cool.

[@GoldenWarNinjaStudio]

Great Job! Now when people bug me about it, I will just point them to your video!

[@citrinesanimations]

Awesome!

[@wilhelm992]

Great stuff, keep making amazing tuts!

[@citrinesanimations]

Thanks

[@vizdotlife]

Even 4 years later this tutorial is fantastic! Thanks a bunch.

[@jenovaizquierdo]

Dude really awesome tutorial 👏👍 you made me subscribe, looking forward to see more awesome tutorials from you.

[@creativeyt3982]

This was the tutorial I was searching for ages thanks for it

[@TafaraJunior]

Perfect i liked and subscribed

[@UKSteveM100]

Really great tutorial, many thanks 👍

[@pikachufan3588]

Well alright then. Thats so useful and concise. Thank you!

[@mingi_juk3196]

Good tutorial!! Thx for your video :) This is WHAT I Looking for.

[@hamzadildar7169]

you are the one who should have a million subscribers, dont worry i will share your content to every person related to 3D. :)

[@citrinesanimations]

Thanks!

[@JSVSmedia]

Pretty cool trick!

[@Snooperking]

awesome, i'll definitely reference this in the future! Thanks

[@citrinesanimations]

sounds good! The second part is coming out later today

[@Tarbh_Aziir]

Citrine's Animations, this is great. Absolutely love this video, great pace, great information, extremely helpful. Thanks for this so much!!! Sláinte

[@pradityapascalisprawito3153]

Wow! Your tutorial was so useful! Thx so much man!!!

[@citrinesanimations]

np

[@nhggr]

Thank you s o m u c h dude! This is so useful and looks amazing!

[@datapower2317]

Great video! subscribed, liked and already turned on notification of your channel!

[@citrinesanimations]

猪猪妹与大饼猪 thank you so much!

[@GenSen]

So under rated!!!

[@shiimadraw3155]

I don't plane on rigging a mouth but your tutorial might help a lot with the problem I'm having with my project. Thanks :D

[@Markal3184]

Very well explained, Good Job.

[@citrinesanimations]

Thanks!

[@aquamaster7646]

Totally awesome dude keep it up

[@citrinesanimations]

Thanks!!

[@aquamaster7646]

@@citrinesanimations I even subscribed dude!

[@citrinesanimations]

@@aquamaster7646 ay!! I appreciate it

[@alan112223]

That is exactly what I was looking for

[@citrinesanimations]

Good

[@ptelephant]

Not really what I was looking for, but interesting.

[@avg2561]

Nice tutorial 👌

[@citrinesanimations]

Thanks!

[@SugarLightStudios]

you can also use snap tool to snap to vertices,But anywas thanks for this amazing tutorial loving it,I am hoping for a eye rig next time

[@trueblue4276]

I wish I could like more than once

[@thisIsfluffy]

Having a small issue. When I went to the vertex groups, only the first row of bones I did were in it. Did I happen to do something wrong, or is there a way to add the other bones in?

[@thecasualfriday8770]

I was wondering, if I didn't care too much about a large variety of expression, would this also work with just shape keys instead of all those bones?

[@JeffNotes]

Oh yess I found one! Yayy!

[@user-eh4rk7xp2x]

love your voice

[@knerf999]

You can also snap to vertex if you have a lot of bones with the snapping tool.

[@citrinesanimations]

smart

[@thefirebeanie5481]

*ah yes assigning to vertices* *blender would be less painful to know earlier* *aka 3 years ago* in all seriousness thanks

[@MashuClips]

I had no idea you could just press - to make it go to the negative side. I've had to cancel and undo so many operations because of that.

[@vukmijatovic]

You can also use greace pencil whit shrinkwarp modifier but this is ylso efective

[@flowerstarstudio1992]

Nice, thanks for that; but if I may? get a puff filter and set a compressor in your audio editing software. Keep it up.

[@citrinesanimations]

Haha thanks. for that tutorial I didnt realize I wasnt using my actual mic and I was using some other one connected to my computer! Sorry about that!

[@flowerstarstudio1992]

Citrine's Animations I have similar problems so I do get it; it does get quite annoying...😒😅👍🏽

[@octosalias5785]

Thank you!

[@citrinesanimations]

Zachary Foster your welcome!

[@citrinesanimations]

@@spider5045 Your welcome

[@chunio]

muchas gracias

[@halfbakedmedia]

I just made a rectangle and used three loop cuts instead of one to keep it even.

[@petercase7360]

Hey I know this video is older but why won't my armetures link to my plane? When I click on one they don't all select i have to click on ea one and it dosnt transfer over to the plane woth the bones

[@AlberTesla1024]

Thanks for telling this unique technique, But there is another faster way for 2D face rigging which makes use of warp modifier.

[@citrinesanimations]

Isn’t as effective

[@kirbking8074]

We were here.

[@Assortment54321]

Hey, kiddo. Great tutorial! But, to save you some time, it might be better to use shape keys instead of adding an armature to a plane.

[@citrinesanimations]

Hey! Ya this is an old video so I see why you called me kiddo haha. But yeah, that would work well, but for full length animated films / episodes this would work better and be more efficient

[@Assortment54321]

@@citrinesanimations Ah sorry about that. Didn't realize how old the video was. :P wasn't trying to be mean or demeaning. Anyway, I havent tried this method, but I'll take your word for it. :) Perhaps I'll give it a shot.

[@omeletotheegg]

Waiting for Part 2

[@citrinesanimations]

Omeleto almost done editing it! Stay tuned

[@EduardoHernandez-ks5pn]

Oh yess im lucky i found this

[@GoldenEyed112]

can you make a 2.93 version for this?? pls i cant get anymore blender versions, my laptop would explode :(

[@citrinesanimations]

It works for any version of blender.

[@DansAnimations1]

The beginning of mecaface

[@saber4n317]

how do u shrink it

[@LawMasterTimmy]

Would this pretty much be the same for the eyes and eyebrows?

[@citrinesanimations]

Yep!

[@alexandertoth7492]

It doesent do what you did on min 7:54 .It only selekts one bone why doese it do that can somone help me please

[@AleXander-cp7wd]

Hi, this face rig will be the same as the one used in the Villager Animation?

[@citrinesanimations]

Ale Xander yep it will be!

[@AleXander-cp7wd]

@@citrinesanimations Thanks, I can't wait to use it

[@MariaDasdores-mt7wt]

Quero vê foto da familia

[@Bronnel721]

Where did my comment about Ads.financetrack(2).dll go?

[@MephilestehDarkness]

Could I possibly apply this to an entirely 2d rig?

[@citrinesanimations]

Mac-Daddy of coarse! Just don’t do the shrink wrap and data transfer stuff and you should be good to go!

[@citrinesanimations]

Best4rtNiteClips I didn’t learn this from anywhere... I’m the first person to do this. Good luck finding a better tutorial

[@GoldenWarNinjaStudio]

Well... maybe the second, maybe I should make a tutorial! Jk, but for real your tutorial is really good. I might need you to help me on something with the mouth rig.

[@Stuwieee]

Oh *B O I*

[@citrinesanimations]

OHHH BOI

[@davidmm7188]

7:53 its selecting only one bone not all of them

[@khrazza]

i'm confused. when i click shift D, it creates a new armature, but in your video, you only have one armature in your collection

[@citrinesanimations]

dont forget to go into edit mode!

[@khrazza]

@@citrinesanimations You're amazing! Thanks for the quick reply!

[@citrinesanimations]

@@khrazza no problem

[@Tarbh_Aziir]

@@citrinesanimations YOU ARE AMAZING! I had the same issue, but I figured you already solved this elsewhere!!! Sláinte Mhath! Many Thanks!!!

[@chutas]

soo,is this what you use in your videos?

[@citrinesanimations]

nope. I use mecaface which I made!

[@citrinesanimations]

you can get it on the mecabricks store

[@juiceman7649]

You sound young, 13 ish ? really impressive stuff for your age bright future ahead of you.

[@citrinesanimations]

Mark Elliot thanks!

[@thefirebeanie5481]

my stupid attention span had me thinking if it didn't go immediately into what i was looking for this was a bad tutorial thank you so much

[@at4396]

love your voice miss

[@citrinesanimations]

A T I’m not a miss lol

[@at4396]

@@citrinesanimations hahah sorry

[@MXFlamez]

Should this tutorial work with previous versions of blender

[@citrinesanimations]

Yep it does!

[@powerofthec5908]

Just upgrade bro.

[@interbrick7125]

Very good tutorial! The only thing bothering me is the poor voice-recording quality, but that's ok. 😊

[@JJJCCC3333]

3:09 AMOGUS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Iuvfortnite]

Why is the download link a spam website

[@citrinesanimations]

It’s not. You click the skip at the top right and then it brings you to the download. Those websites have ads so that they can stay up and so I can make a tiny amount from it.

[@Iuvfortnite]

@@citrinesanimations oh ok,THX,GREAT TUTORIAL BTW

[@kirbking8074]

I can finally make Lego my hero academia

[@MariaDasdores-mt7wt]

Quero ver foto da minha família

[@citrinesanimations]

Maria Das dores ? Sorry I talk English and french only

[@kenajhere]

3:03

[@sukiicake]

11:38 sus

[@megantn]

ඞ

[@CG_Maker]

Anyone familiar with shape keys? From what I can tell, this is all an inefficient way of producing shape keys. Shape keys are a lot less time consuming, more versital, and easier to set up.

[@citrinesanimations]

Hi! no dont use shape keys. they arnt going to work for peoples intentions with this rig. shashape keys just wont work aswell at all.

[@CG_Maker]

@@citrinesanimations Oh. I see.

[@Dethgears]

Ah yes, S is for scale, R is for Rotate, G is for... Transform

[@aarogyasampada5831]

Marathi madhe bolat Jay Bai tumchi bhasha nahi samjat aamhala.☺️🙏

[@powerofthec5908]

You don't have to explain everything like that we're not first time users.

[@citrinesanimations]

PowerOfTheC some people are!

[@powerofthec5908]

@@citrinesanimations Yeah but we all atleast have a basic understanding of how things work. You don't need to explain every single shortcut.

[@citrinesanimations]

PowerOfTheC well there are still many people who are having problems with something because I forgot to explain it more deeply for them

[@powerofthec5908]

@@citrinesanimations tell them to watch the donut tut for god's sakes. This kinda stuffs makes the tut drag on for way too long.

[@TheEnderRenderer]

PowerOfTheC rude