Tutorial: Rigging and Texture Blending Digital Humans with FACS

Adam Spring showcased his workflow using FACS, Facial Action Coding System that helps create a believable facial look for digital humans. The system is based on photogrammetry techniques and blend shape deformers. By using several deformed facial expressions, you can get a facial rig that will work for the further animation process. In the tutorial, Adam provides a more detailed explanation of the approach and demonstrates each step:

• Creating the Neutral Expression
• Facial Blend Shapes
• Creating Wrinkle Maps
• Facial Rigging in Maya
• Color Map Blending

The shown workflow will work with scan data and hand-sculpted characters.

Visit Adam’s website for work-in-progress materials and insights.