I wish I had an example for Danny, but I can’t find one unfortunately. Renderpeople are scanned 3D People models for application areas such as visualization, VFX, games. 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. Layered body parts and controls for easy animating (You can focus on root first and that could help you while animating). 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. Ultimate Bony v1.0.5 is ready to animate body mechanics exercises. Free Rigged Characters Chibi 3D Models for Download. 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. maya, blend, obj, fbx with low poly, animated, rigged, game, and VR options.

Free rigged character for maya