WoW to Blender Series: Part 4 - Facial Rig and Mocap

Описание: WoW to Blender Series: Part 4 - Expressive Facial Rigging & Motion Capture

You've brought your World of Warcraft character into Blender, rigged the body, and made it game-ready for UE5—now it's time to give it a soul! In Part 4 of the WoW to Blender series, we tackle the most complex and rewarding part of character setup: Facial Rigging and Animation.

I'll guide you through a professional-grade facial setup that's perfect for cinematic quality and real-time performance, and then show you how to use your own expressions to drive the rig instantly with motion capture!

This is the key to creating next-level machinima and dynamic cutscenes!

What You'll Learn:

Building the Facial Rig: The crucial choice between bone-based and Shape Key (blendshape) rigging for WoW characters.

Creating Key Expressions: Sculpting essential Shape Keys for blinks, smiles, mouth movements, and phonemes (for lip-sync).

Driver Setup: Connecting your Shape Keys to an intuitive custom control panel using Drivers for easy animation and posing.

MoCap Integration: Setting up an accessible Facial Motion Capture solution (Live Link app) to capture your performance.

Retargeting Your Data: Transferring your live or recorded facial performance data directly onto your WoW character's rig for instant, lifelike dialogue.

Series Links:

WoW to Blender Series: Part 1 - Exporting & XNALara Rigging:    • WoW to Blender Series: Part 1 - Exporting ...  

WoW to Blender Series: Part 2 - Armor Rigging:    • WoW to Blender Series: Part 2 - Armor Rigging  

WoW to Blender Series: Part 3 - Auto-Rig Pro to UE5:


Featured Addons (Paid/Highly Recommended):

Faceit (For faster, automated facial rigging): https://superhivemarket.com/products/...

Auto-Rig Pro: https://superhivemarket.com/products/...

Voxel Heat Diffuse Skinning: https://superhivemarket.com/products/...

Software Used:

Blender 4.5
Facial Mocap App/Software (e.g., Live Link Face)
WoW Export Tools

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