Quickly Rig Simple Character Faces (Blender 2.9 Tutorial)

[@FruitZeus]

Thanks for watching!! The third and final part to my Create A Simple Character series is coming today! Tune in here: kzbin.info/aero/PLDici1R0fM_CnQfWOy55pki7khrPlWyIC

[@okok-ub1fo]

oh my gosh tysm ive been looking for a short tutorial only focusing on this, this is perfect, it feels illegal to learn everything in this video within 13 minutes, but thanks again God bless you!

[@rohanimations]

Wow this is a fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much! I love how you stopped to explain why things work the way they do instead of just saying “do this!” like some tutorials do. : )

[@FruitZeus]

Thanks!! I certainly try. Knowing “why” will take you so much farther than knowing “how”

[@wallacelovecraft8942]

This tut actually works in unreal engine 4 when bringing animations from blender. I didn't want to figure out how to make a mouth go up and down with bones or something since I've only recently started using blender. This is a life saver. Thank you.

[@FruitZeus]

You’re welcome!

[@J.I.M.B.O.]

How did you export to unreal? when I do it, they don't work. I do it as FBX files. :) Everything works, just not the shape keys.

[@Arghya_10]

not only this tutorial showed us how to rig a face, it showed a lot on Shape keys , drivers which is a really good feature for a beginner , thanks

[@يوسفإسلام-م8ر]

one of the best videos ive seen on drivers and shape keys, i wish i found this video earlier. your tutorial is amazing and your really good at explaining things, keep going and your gonna become a really popular blender tutor.

[@socks2441]

ive always used shape keys, and they are a pita when you have a lot of them to animate. using bones instead is a great tip, and using drivers (that i didnt even know existed) is far easier than i expected. thanks for the great little tute.

[@razorblade413]

Honestly I still don't understand the shape keys use... for example I'm learning about armature and rigging, but if shape keys could move vertices to make moves... Why not just animate the character with shape keys only instead of using armature with bones and rigging methods?

[@ryancaldwell5377]

Got in before 1000 subs! I have no doubt you'll be hitting high numbers within the year if you keep posting. High quality tutorials, keep up the good work!

[@FruitZeus]

Thanks Ryan! Thanks for joining me on the journey! Excited to provide more content in the very near future.

[@FruitZeus]

Hey! You asked for it! I’m making a skin shader tutorial! Hopefully I get it uploaded today! (: I’m listening to what you want, your comment is heard! If there’s something you want to know or see just let me know! (:

[@wj2497]

THANK YOU, you've saved me from dropping $100 on a face rigging add-on. This is so straightforward!

[@Aluwilliam]

Thanks! This is a really good video, I had no clue how to rig faces, and this is a really nice method. I also didn't even know shape keys were a thing, so that's really useful.

[@jfilesgraphics]

I like the way you broke this down. This technique of rigging almost reminds me of smart bones in Moho.

[@belajarbersama381]

I like the texture...can you make skin texture tutorial like that?

[@FruitZeus]

Absolutely!

[@FruitZeus]

New Skin Shader video is available per request (:

[@belajarbersama381]

Wow..cool 🙏 thanks broo

[@alexmattyou]

@@FruitZeus oh, thankyou :D

[@JohnSatan]

That's literally principled BSDF with skin colour and some subsurface scattering

[@moviemyuk]

bro seriously this is exactly what i was looking for, i knew how to rig it all up and how to animate but it was a case of how to have it so its more streamlined and have the shapekeys thank you!

[@eunaumBMS]

man thank you a lot, i liked your way to teach it helped me a lot with shape keys i had never used in life, but i watched your video and now i can use it xD

[@FruitZeus]

Super glad it was helpful Tony!! Thanks for tuning in!

[@CrazyWeridoRH]

This was the tutorial I was looking for. You beautiful beautiful helpful man

[@james_hadley_]

Ive been watching a lot of Blender tutorials over the past few months and this was one of my favorites. Thank you for going into the math side of things for people like me who need a reminder.

[@ArtVandelayInc]

This is a perfect tutorial for me. Great job. 10/10

[@Smile-bx7wz]

finally... a good, simple tutorial on shape keys and bone rigging. Thank you FruitZeus.

[@janis-428]

Amazing tutorial ! There were quite a few tutorials i watched to find out how to animate my characters face without having to rig the entire face with bones and then move them all, but none were even partially as helpful and well explained as yours. Thank you!

[@rken100]

Bro thats was really cool breaking down the driver makes alittle more sense to me thaks subbed

[@FruitZeus]

Yeah for sure!! I’m glad to be of assistance!

[@letsgobirding9246]

this is so cool! now you can bake in face wrinkles for certain poses! so much nicer than the insane face rigs I've seen, I'm excited to try this out

[@FruitZeus]

Exactly!! The face pose can be exactly how you want it to be without the limitation of bones

[@letsgobirding9246]

@@FruitZeus and by combining a few simple actions for just the eyes, just the mouth, just the nose, because they're addative I assume you could create almost any expression with a dozen or so shape keys. sort of like claymation or miniatures face animation

[@FruitZeus]

@@letsgobirding9246 you got it 🤝💯

[@pedrovon9942]

This was very good and informative and not depressing at all, like many others "character move" - tutorials. Please, if You have time and enthusiasm it would be nice to get more tutorials from You. Thanks for this one, God Bless!

[@FruitZeus]

Thank you! I do plan to make more tutorials!

[@FruitZeus]

Appreciate this Pedro! My new tutorial is available for character creation!

[@Dralexanderwailan]

Great Tutorial to demonstrate this part of blender. Thank you for this!

[@arthoefmann]

this was so understandable and helpful thanks a lot!

[@INVICTUSSOLIS]

Thanks for these tutorials. Learned quite a lot from your posts

[@siagakoti]

Thanks for the math lesson 🤓 I really appreciate you sharing this! Trying to use the face rig to pose has been a nightmare -- so glad I kept researching to make this process easier!

[@TV-8-301]

Clever assigning a bone's position to control facial movements, like a digital marionette! Also your keyboard sounds are very satisfying

[@fortissimoX]

Wow, it's really impressive how you are able to create low poly character which still looks very expressive. Also, I like that your style is so similar to stop animation. I see that you are new, but I really believe that you can get quite a lot of views and subscribers if you are willing to explain the techniques and workflow you use. Great job, like and subscribe from me!

[@gilbert2185]

Thanks a lot for breaking down the math at the end. You really know your stuff!

[@stockerman7747]

Awesome tutorial.. answers a couple of extra questions I had too :) thank you. (You have great presence and pacing btw. Subbed for sure!)

[@KamSinghNow]

Awesome tutorial. Way easier then bones. Thank you.

[@dimitridehouck9506]

So cool. A fresh channel. Really good content man. Love it!!

[@FruitZeus]

Thanks!!

[@notyan7032]

Really good quality learning and explanation! Congrats!

[@tendividedbysix4835]

Really fantastic explanation :)

[@zaxskh2689]

Thank you very much You really helped me I was thinking a lot about how to rigging Anime eyes but didn't find any solution but when I saw your video now I can animate Anime eyes like a piece of cake

[@bovineox1111]

Super, just what I wanted for intro to blend shapes in blender.

[@jinxatron]

This was really helpful! I dont use drivers and shapekeys in my day to day as the systems i connect to doesnt support them, but heck if this didnt make me a lot more informed on how to use them properly :) Subbed.

[@icedriver2207]

Thanks for such a good and competent tutorial.

[@FruitZeus]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ezblends516]

THANK YOU i WAS LOOKING FOR A WAY TO DEFORM SHAPE KEYS INSIDE ARMATURE NICE :D

[@serhiikotliarov7159]

Thank you VERY MUCH, sir. It is easy to follow!

[@Aptass]

Good and to the point video. Keep up the good work

[@CasBox]

Your tutorials very good, and your explanation is great! Your videos are helping me a lot, thank you

[@FruitZeus]

Hey fine folks! Character Head Creation Tutorial coming today! 😎

[@hugob.desautels6790]

It's a really interesting technique! A plus that can be added to an already mounted armature. Very good video, I watched it several times. Thank you

[@FruitZeus]

Thanks so much! Uploading another right now!

[@Devn3dx]

i was so excited to get into this today until he whipped out the algebra and I realized I would have to put in real effort.

[@ZeroStas]

Instead or face rigging I learn more about drivers. Nice

[@daor9853]

love your vids an amazing guy I recommend it for anyone who wants to start 3d NFTs

[@UdjinUdjin]

Cool tutorial! Thanks man!!

[@Daily_Inspirations]

You are amazing, thanks for the tutorial ❤!

[@artistjim114]

Absolutely excellent! Thanks bro!

[@siemensohm]

very good tutorial. thank you

[@Anonymous-ue7dl]

god,how i hoped for something like this for my animation ❤❤❤

[@chadthefatkid]

Good job so far. You explain things well with no xtra bs. Much appreciated. I could us a tut for making keys (3D printing, joints)

[@JonaDVargas]

amazing tutorial!! very thorough

[@sabacherqezishvili7244]

pretty good and helpful vid, great skin texture would be happy to see tutorial of that too. i subscribed and waiting for more interesting things to come.Good luck 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@FruitZeus]

New Skin Shader video is available per request (:

[@sabacherqezishvili7244]

@@FruitZeus im watchin as im writing down this comment, thank u so much. ❤️❤️❤️

[@GoGo-ze1mq]

Great vid man!

[@juancarlosrodriguez458]

Amazing work. Thanks for this epic tutorial!

[@13headphones]

great explanation, keep the good job, and thanks for your time

[@FruitZeus]

Thanks so much!!

[@Mionwang]

Awesome tut! Tysm

[@ro0n655]

this was so helpful thank you!

[@ChrisTharpArt]

Good stuff man! I needed a refresher on keyshapes. Thanks much well done. Subbed.

[@BLTDFRNT]

Loved the video but you gotta do something about the keyboard noises man, keep it up 💪

[@FruitZeus]

Haha I hear you. I got it figured out by the more recent videos 🤝

[@TenYearsOldGamer]

Beautiful ❤ I love This Tutorial With this cute Baby face 😍👍and Thanks .

[@tomtrovert2339]

Thanks for the tutorial, so useful

[@diki-art]

thank you, it helped me alot.

[@TonyInTownNZ]

Brilliant. Innovative. I love what you have shown us. Thanks

[@safwa1840]

Please can you make a tutorial on how you made this face? Your method of explaining is very easy to follow and to the point 👍

[@FruitZeus]

Yes! I am going to create a character creation series!

[@safwa1840]

@@FruitZeus cool! :D

[@FruitZeus]

Tutorial is now available! Feel free to watch it up!

[@safwa1840]

@@FruitZeus awesome!

[@frame76films]

thanks for this vid. very nicely presented

[@Bat_pann]

thanks man, it helped me a lot.

[@arcticbarbarian]

Wow great tutorial! Im just curious if its possible to bake part of the armature to F curve?

[@jamesngando3485]

nice video, by the way if u don't know u can use Ctrl+p to switch on pose mode Édit : it's ctrl tab for quick switch

[@thesquirrelchase-exploreph5635]

Helpful. Thank you.

[@creator9071]

Thank you for the math class at the end

[@razeemotion1886]

Bro u just saved me 25 dollars, thanks alot

[@sammyjaohnson5631]

This is very helpful thank you!

[@FruitZeus]

You’re welcome!

[@averdantcryptid]

Absolute life-saver. Thank you

[@DanB]

great and we'll explained thanks a lot

[@perrito9634]

Excelent video 👍👍

[@tcheadriano]

Nice tut!!

[@ezraken9618]

Hey, that was a good tutorial, thanks. Subbed you.

[@user-em9su3dd9y]

Really cool, thanks for this.

[@zigfaust]

It's reasons like these why as a primarily Zbrush user I still fucks with Blender. Simple and clean.

[@elisabetta3746]

So helpful! Thank you :)

[@dalmaciorojocagadoc3557]

super informative, thank you for this

[@FruitZeus]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tricityterror]

Such simple topology... would like a video knowing how to do it with so few loops

[@FruitZeus]

Hey Christopher! I go over this in my newest video on character creation. Feel free to tune in. Just posted minutes ago 👀

[@tricityterror]

@@FruitZeus Excellent service ; ) Thanks!

[@alexmattyou]

This doll face is so cute and amazing. I like that skin material. Can you teach how to create the skin material like this, I'll subscribed you :D

[@marcgiguere651]

how did you make the model only display that simplified wireframe? I can see far fewer vertices than are implied by the curvature of the mesh, looks like it makes deformation a breeze! how do you do that?

[@FruitZeus]

Yes!! So basically if you just add the subdivision surface modifier, then you click the little square and the triangle to the right of the modifier it allows you to view the modifier in edit mode. This allows you to work in this soft round method. I love this for box modeling characters.

[@marcgiguere651]

@@FruitZeus NICE wow that's dope!! you rule

[@FruitZeus]

Hey Marc! I go over this in more detail on my newest tutorial! Feel free to check it out!!

[@tjunger36]

@@FruitZeus Thanks, thats the answer to my problem too! Awesome :)

[@Gobolinn]

2:15 How did you move the entire mesh selecting just the lower lip and chin without proportional editing turned on??? The faces between the lip and chin aren't selected yet its moving in unision with the selected faces

[@HasanRammal]

Amazing!

[@mariabr8954]

I try to change the second shape key in the sculpt mode but it gets reallyyy glitchy. is there a way to fix this? you're literally the only person who's made a video on this

[@dhrupadkapoor7285]

Amazing work 💜💜👍

[@FruitZeus]

Thank you!!

[@DolioFoilio]

Great stuff. Interested in how you created the model! You've got like few vertices but I'm guessing the sub-surf gives it that smooth geometry.

[@FruitZeus]

Yes it does, sorry I should’ve mentioned that! If you apply a subdivision surface to it, and check the Edit mode view box, it will make the viewport look like that.

[@DolioFoilio]

@@FruitZeus I would love to see more character animation/modelling tutorials or even speed-runs from you. I really dig the style of this character, in fact, I'd really like to model something like this. It kinda helped me open my eyes to the possibilities!

[@DolioFoilio]

@@FruitZeus I just checked out your Insta feed and I'm just BLOWN away! Please do some behind the scenes/breakdown's of your animations [characters], we need content like this! The world lacks Blender character animation tutorials, Haha. Totally inspired right now!

[@FruitZeus]

Thank you! I’ll be sure to make more character related content!

[@cobyashkenazi5359]

Amazing!!!!!!!!

[@dh4923]

at the 4:00 mark, what controls are being used to swivel the head? If i use G in pose mode, the whole head moves (vs swiveling based on the cursor)

[@mahabbat1960]

Wow) i've just saw your videos on your channel so stylish and funny, i want to know is they full of info to?) Good luck to you, i've subscribed right now) will see wat is next)

[@grandimations7309]

So the default face emote before rigging should just be them with an open mouth?

[@TheIwatt1]

Magic tut. Thank 🙇 you

[@KatouMiwa]

thanks for the tutorial :D

[@rhysbradley7294]

Thanks !!