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Character Facial Animation Course

6 modules

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26 lessons

Learn how to create interactive and expressive characters from scratch.

Your Instructor

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Rahul Mula

Instructor

Course Overview

This course guides you through building a complete head rig, teaching you how to combine constraints, state machines, data binding and joysticks to create characters that truly come alive.

What you'll get out of this course

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Build a dynamic head control with constraints and joysticks

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Dynamically switch facial features, hair and color with data binding

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Setup the state machine to dynamically animate the mouth based on audio input

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Build advanced controls to manipulate every facial feature like a puppet

Course content

1

Getting Started

2 items

2 lectures
2

Basic Head Rig

5 items

5 lectures
3

Customizing Assets

4 items

4 lectures
4

Lip Sync

6 items

6 lectures
5

3D Head Turn

5 items

5 lectures
6

Facial Expressions

4 items

4 lectures

Your Instructor

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Rahul Mula

Instructor

As an experienced Rive animator and instructor, I've created this course to help you master every aspect of Rive.

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