Animation resources

Here is a list of important and interesting resources.

Free Rigs,Scripts, models


http://animationbuffet.blogspot.com/

http://www.creativecrash.com/

http://www.turbosquid.com/

http://3dmodel.domawe.com

Suni Facial Rig

Facial Rig Pipeline:

Blend Shapes:

I create basic blend shapes first before I skin the facial joints. Zbrush is the fastest and a more efficient way for creating blenshapes. Anatomically and speed wise. So export base shape to Zbrush ---> Create blend shape ---> import to Maya.
example:

Simple Squishy Eye:

Step 1: Create 2 joints at at center of the eye.
step2:  connect according to the diagram in the hiarchy below.
Step3: Aim constraint the controller to the group node.
Step 4: Skin the area around the eye with a low intensity of around (0.05 and 0.01)