Linx Facial Rig | Taylor Granados

Brake - Linx Facial Rig

I created blendshapes and UI for the Linx Rig on the short film Brake and helped assist the rigging team with various fix ups.

In total, I made 34 blendshapes for the face, with some corrective blendshapes placed inbetween main shapes. I modeled them all spereately from the model and the applied it to a neutral model.

I connected the blendshapes using a buffer group inxpired by the book Stop Staring by Jason Osipa. The book was a great inspiration for creating an approach to deciding what blendshapes are necessary or not. The buffer group is broken into three stages with each progressive stage having more control than the next. It's easy and intuitive to add onto, thus making it easy to use in general and controllable by the animators if they decide to.