I recorded a comprehensive video course about Rigify and released the Basic chapters for free on.

I wish I had an example for Danny, but I can’t find one unfortunately. In this video, learn how Library Overrides and Pose Mode in Blender let you animate. These blocks can be used to rig almost any character with ease. This is like my secret weapon haha, I do this multiple times whenever I’m working on a project… it’s so much easier to think about good face shapes in the 2D plane vs 3D imo. On the modeling side, I super recommend exporting a screen grab or a render from blender and take it into photoshop or gimp or whatever and painting over it, either with liquidify or just straight drawing. Just seeing how they function helps you understand how the face works and how the rig should move. Rigify will automatically setup Inverse Kinematics (IK). I also would super recommend looking up what other people have done for face rigs, both stuff you can get for blender (the Jane rig is super good, just got it recently and I’m currently trying to understand it) and also watching what pros do for rigs in maya, just on youtube or something. For the rigging process, we will make use of a free add-on that comes with Blender called Rigify. Prepare the face for rigging? So on the rigging side, the new rigify face rig really helps a lot, since it’s so easy to build the rig and see if it works, adjust the metarig, and then rebuild it.

Blender free rig