Course Summary

Advanced Facial Rigging is a course on creating complex facial rigs for realistic and expressive character animation published by Blender Studio Online Academy. Designed for 3D artists, character riggers, animators, and digital artists, this course explores advanced techniques for building flexible facial control systems that allow characters to create natural expressions and accurate performances. Learners will work with facial anatomy, deformation systems, composite shapes, controllers, joint-based rigs, facial expressions, lip-sync settings, and automation techniques while learning how to create efficient, animator-friendly rigs.Here’s a demo of the character Storm, rigged using the same techniques shared in this course. This is a video course that walks you through the step-by-step process of how to create a high-quality facial rig in Blender. We will use various techniques for facial reshaping as well as Blender’s native tools and free plugins to adapt to this specific workflow. The course includes over 40 videos and additional files, scripts, and plugins to give you everything you need to follow along. This course is not about rigging automation, as we will be building almost everything from scratch. To fully understand the workflow, we need to walk through each step and understand the fundamental concepts.