In this short tutorial, I would like to show a simple way of rigging a lower
part of the face
and adding reusable weights to control and separate lips bones.
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| 1.Bring your model to Messiah. |
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| 2.Go to setup mode and add bone deform effect |
 
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| 3. add bones |
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I have positioned some bones to roughly mimic skull structure |
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4.create-muscle bones for lips |
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Upper lips bones are parented to the head upper bone, and lower lips bones -
to "head lower" bone. I used "head lower" bone to move the whole jaw of the character. Corner lips bones are parented to upper structure too, so they dont follow the jaw when its opening. I animate them separately to compensate deformation or add smile and sadness emotions. |
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| 5. thats how it looks like without any weights assigned to the lips bones. Obviously the deformation doesnt work very well. |
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