Julper

Illustration and 3D by Julian Perez

Blender Blendshapes

I’ve been catching up with some Blendercookie tutorials that I had in my watchlist for quite some time now about rigging and animation, and one particular series caught my attention (check it).  The title says “Advance face rig”, and as rigging have always been one of my fears, I tought it would be too hard… but once you see the process is quite the opposite, creating the blendshapes and it’s controllers is actually pretty easy!!!

So, I took this model that I´ve been working on and decided to try it on him, there are just a few basic blenshapes for the mouth and the nose, but so far is coming out nicely.

I’ve done a few test renders just for the fun of it 😀 (the textures and displ maps still need to be added).

Note: the eyes, eyebrows, cheeks and forehead haven’t been touched yet, thats why he looks so funny 😛