Animating Faces with a 2D Texture in Blender

[@theburntcrumpet8371]

When you scroll the UV like that, her face looks like a fruit machine. I like the idea of using this somehow to express that a character is unsure what to feel

[@lacruzo]

That’s a fun idea yeah xD

[@caden.does.musicc]

My wishes have been answered! YEAHHHH!

[@podgehodge5150]

Ikr! This is exactly what I was looking for after the last video

[@music_shev_]

Another god tier easy to follow tutorial with simple yet in-depth explanations? Sign me up, I'm all here for it

[@Xfrimz]

I started last month making my model using your low poly tutorial, went through texturing, rigging and about to finish some weight painting and now this banger drops so I can bring my model to completion with a face 😭

[@vildrox019]

I love the idea of the face rolling to the current expression.

[@CrashsuneAcademy]

Your tutorials are just fantastic!! Amazingly clear explanations while still going very in-depth!

[@strigzzz]

Loved the last tutorial, excited to try this out, thank you for making these

[@Kn.77]

Absolutely incredible tutorial! It's a great continuation from the last one! Thank you so much for making these :D

[@HazySkies]

I knew of the mix nodes for multiple textures, but your clear explanation and demonstration of the math nodes has helped me with understand the optimisation of the process. Animating using a single value instead of juggling countless others helps tremendously! This newly acquired technique may serve as a key motivator and still framing method for my future 2D animations. Thanks a bunch! ^-^

[@sequoia5934]

omggg i was WAITING FOR TGIS

[@ashiq00056]

Thanks Man , I have been waiting for this method tutorial for long time!! you explained it so nicely.

[@TOAKSuriFox]

Wooo, amazing! just what I've been looking for

[@buraym_dev]

nice one, always love your videos ! keep up the good work

[@kyoobot6827]

This incredibly detailed, well explained, and smart I loved this so much Thank you for your hard work

[@sashahenriksen]

im rather new to low poly modeling, only been at it for a few weeks and videos like this are so helpful. also even before you said it my mind went to "oh like animal crossing" because it seemed familiar. Really informative! Subscribed!

[@RohemN]

I'm so glad I found this, I'm dipping my toes with 3D modeling by learning how to make low poly stuff and this is so helpful!

[@mellohd]

This is so perfect, helped me out a LOT because previously i just didn't give any of my models an expression because i didn't know how lol. Now my new model finally can express emotion. Your tutorial was really helpful and easy thank you so much!!

[@lestrucsdeflo]

Perfect as always 👌

[@mathaeis]

This is fantastic! I can't wait to give this a try. I have a small project in mind that might be able to make use of it!

[@alexblue2653]

I love this tutorial, it made everything so much easier to understand !

[@hohoaho6890]

THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR FOR MONTHS NOW THANK YOU

[@joshuabidwell2614]

Such a cute technique and character, thank you

[@yon4166]

its literaly what i was looking for, THANKS YOU ILY

[@sillygoose8037]

reallly coool stuff man, thanks for the video, appreciate it.

[@sebastiane3994]

Love your work! thank you so much!

[@jayplaays3194]

Thank you so much for this!! This is so cool!!

[@jacobprentice2649]

I was just thinking about this, thanks!

[@cakeghoul]

I just watched this and your previous video, I've got a project I want to start of a low-poly fashion game inspired by ds and 3ds games, I've never touched blender in my life and even though I was only half listening, everything made sense to me, I cant wait to get started on the project! Subbed!

[@EmmaW-ik9go]

THANKKK YOOOUUUUUUU ive been wanting to learn how to do this and this is amazing timing!!!

[@sharkyboss3d]

I’ve been looking on and off for something like this, and it pops up in my recommended? YEAAAAAAAA

[@3DandIA]

lacruzo I love your tutorials, very good.

[@nesferatu]

Great breakdown! I had previously purchased your low poly girl model to recreate it from scratch and subsequently texture it in Substance Painter (a workflow I'm trying to learn). I've been looking for a good tutorial that covers animating 2D faces and look what pops up in my feed. Thank you so much!

[@MrDigitalWorks]

Absolutely awesome tutorial! You can also use an Image Sequence + Offset for the different faces. Keep it up!

[@comet3429]

I’m saving this to use for later , thanks for the explaination

[@skylarrick6509]

I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE TUTORIAL

[@cc95g85]

Awesome! Thanks

[@GuatekeFrankie]

Been following all your videos, they're awesome! It could ve very helpful for beginners to know how to render this kind of scenes! you know, just to showcase the character in a proper way. Keep it up ;)

[@boxerBeto]

I’ll definitely be trying this when I attempt 3D games in Godot. Thanks for sharing!

[@sovietique]

OMG I NEEDED THIS TYSMSMSMSM I WAS EAITING FOR U

[@thegooberator]

I did something almost exactly like this. I just UV unwraped the model my self and pack everything but the face in the bottom half of the texture, then a make a mask for the face. And I made the shader in unity like the video so I had mouth visemes for vrchat, while still meeting excellent quality on the quest.

[@R0cketed]

AWWW!! MY FAV GAME DEVV COMMENTED!!

[@MyGenerativeEra]

this is gem video

[@user-by2gt7ft3p]

고마워요 감사합니다 당신의 모델링은 정말 매력적이에요

[@marshmallowboi]

Loved this! really helpful! really inspired me to create my characters in blender! :)

[@kartopod]

Awesome!

[@Corazondelluna]

YESSSS thank you!❤

[@sahebsidhu5544]

You should start a discord! Would also love to see videos of how you began learning blender, what resources you used, etc.

[@Haruhi4me]

I no nothing about blender or 3d models or animating but this video made me feel smart

[@hey_bebop]

Great content, thank you very much!! ❤

[@blueroman460]

Thank you so much for the video!

[@AchHadda]

Thank you for this one i asked for this tutorial thank you

[@avauok8941]

Thank you so much!

[@thatrat1851]

THANK YOUUUU

[@bilskirnir_]

I was really wondering about a way to do this. Great video.

[@disgustedguy]

nice one. very informative and easy to understand as well as easy to replicate. awesome. thx, dude.

[@ratfishx2739]

omg thank you so much

[@MRkamokun]

Amazing content , i hope to see a video about rigging next time

[@ssg-eggunner]

It's crazy how in few shots it looks more like a vector drawing than a 3d model

[@4epbrk_6rk_6rk]

How timely I started trying to create a character in Blender) I just wanted to have something like this, thanks for the tutorial!)

[@Drigsof]

I realized a dream, thank you

[@2kyrie]

Loves both tutorials really, easy to learn. It would be awesome a tutorial on rigging on the future if you can please

[@vaniltonjr5530]

bravíssimo!

[@thebeardedmen]

if you're not scared of expressions, you can have a bone in your rig with a custom property (like an integer) that starts from 0 (cap the minimum), then use this as a driver into a single combine xyz node, then modify the driver to be this expression: value*-0.25. If you want to account for the right side of your textures, you can simply have a boolean toggle, then in the xyz's X value, set it as a driver but make the expression value*(whatever your lateral offset is). To do this without a secondary toggle is a bit more complicated but doable for sure. Just a bit long winded imo.

[@lacruzo]

sounds like a clever way of doing it! wouldn't need as many nodes as well

[@britneewashington4106]

This art style reminds me of MySims. So cute!

[@marcowallao]

it's so helpfull. thank you for share!

[@gim-ori]

thanks!

[@corepunch]

Yep was doing that in a game I released in 2015

[@fishsticxz]

very clear and good explanation! i've been meaning to look into this, but the other videos i've seen have looked too long so i hadn't gotten to it... i usually just model facial features to have my characters emote, but this is a good technique to have under your belt too. now the only thing i wonder about is how lowpoly vtubers have 2d texture faces connected to their program of choice, since the unity pack used for creating vtuber and vrchat models expects shape keys, not armature changes for the expressions...

[@sky333suraj]

Keep doing 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Pelorthecat]

Yeah, this is the one, this is the tutorial I'm looking for :D Thank you so much for video. Gunna make a bunch of animal crossing characters after this! :Đ

[@myself_apparently]

i love you my good sir

[@RyansWorldINC]

YESSSSSSSSSS

[@ZiosNeon]

great video!! do more pleasee

[@isaacsalvador4188]

rigging next please 🙏

[@xMpR13]

subscribed🎉

[@itsjessie2004]

I CAN NOT TELL YOU!!! HOW LONG!!!!!!! ive been trying to figure this out, ON MY OWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@nichasatummyache2510]

I've been rigging transparent face shapes with shape keys that move in front of the face when the key is turned on. This is such a better system that i'm going to impliment lmao

[@NEOL1NK]

Back when I used Maya, if I were to do something like this, I'd use something called "Set Driven Key" to assign the different UV values to a custom, keyable attribute assigned to some kind of object on the rig (usually a curve controller), that you could access from the Attributes sidebar, which is essentially Maya's equivalent to Blender's Item tab or Object Properties menu. I do like how visually intuitive it seems to animate this stuff with a bone you move around, although I could also see it getting messy (especially if you wanna have more control over more stuff). I'm wondering if the "Custom Properties" section in Object Properties functions like Maya's custom attributes. Like, maybe you could make a custom property that allows you to move those bones to the different values from Object Properties? That way you'd have the option to do both. I think the custom properties even show up on the Item tab for quick access once you make them.

[@jeromyperez5532]

I was wondering the same thing. I've been learning Blender coming off of Maya and while some things are easier a lot of things are just messier unless you write your own python scripts.

[@adamjohnson8574]

this is the style i want to make a cartoon in lmao so thank you for making a more intuitive less drawn out and fed tutorial on this, question though, say wanted the eyes and the mouth on seperate animations, id just do the same method twice due to the split yeah? new to blender and trying to figure out the easiest paths of animation lol

[@diadepedra9004]

Obrigado pela aula, UwU

[@felipe_villart]

do you teach a course?

[@happyc6770]

thank you so so much omg ive been waiting 3 years for a tutorial like this. May I ask how we could export this into unity?

[@happyc6770]

may i ask how would you fo about rigging and animating?like crying with tears, if possible? May i also ask how to move the character to unity or unreal?

[@lawrence9713]

Still didn't decide how I make the faces of my character for my game. I guess I'll go with this method shown here. But since it has a character creator and skin color can look different for each character, I'll make some extra polygons over the head/face and make eyes and mouth on a transparent background

[@tboxfinn]

Do you know how can I get this faces work on unity?

[@Luluskuy]

Search how to change texture offset via script.

[@happyc6770]

@iacruzo may i ask how would i go about say I have the textures set but it goes through the other faces I don't want it to go to, like from regular expression to blinking,but before blink is a shocked expression texture I don't want to see?

[@junpeiiori4720]

Thank you so much. I don't know if you accept suggestions but it would be really helpful if you can show us your animation workflow.

[@PickoBot]

Hi love your video really helpfull, but do you know if you have a three columns instead of just one on this video?

[@edgarulises9442]

wow, incredible tutorial, do you know one that its compatible whit exportation?

[@geckoram6286]

8:15 I can't find mix nodes on blender 2.8, I eventually got it working feeding snap nodes to minimum nodes, then applying that to a xyz

[@One4Smoji8]

If I put blendshapes on the controller bone, do you think this would work if I moved it over to Unity to use for VRChat or VSeeFace?

[@noahturiaf4030]

Your models are so good! Will you be making a tutorial on UV wrapping any time soon?

[@andremoreau8390]

His previous video has some pretty good directions on that.

[@REI.K47]

This is exactly what ive been looking for. Could you go over how you rigged the character?

[@ryanze26]

bro, thanks! subscribed! make more low poly tutorials please..

[@animationlife1241]

In the Adobe Animate program, there is the Symbol and Nested Symbol feature, which speeds up work very much, and I did not find anything similar to it in other programs. Is there a similar feature or ability in Grease pencil ?

[@Explore205]

Pls make video on environment making using toon shader

[@spiky6628]

tutorial on low poly curly or wavy hair pls?

[@CM_edits6023]

Are we able to download the model

[@DearBearDrinkingBeer]

I have blender version 3.2, I do not have such a node as converter -> Mix. There is Mix RGB, but there is no vector. What should I do?

[@lacruzo]

the Mix RGB node should still work the same way. Just need to imagine the two slots as A and B here.

[@Rexcnaut]

How did you get that window to pop up when renaming the bone? at 9:17 EDIT: nvm it's with F2 on windows

[@itsbinxbro]

I wonder how this sort of technique could translate into a game engine like Unity or Godot. Do those engines have the capability to modify uv texture coords, or would you have to find another technique?