Decent tutorial face and body rigging/setup

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velvetelvis70
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Decent tutorial face and body rigging/setup

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Hi - I know basic facial and body rigging in maya and I'd like to experiment in 2d. Does anyone know a good end-to-end tutorial that explains clearly the workflow for face and body rigging in AS through bones and switch layers.
I bought the 'official guide' book but it just outlines the principles rather than giving a step-by-step guide for a reasonably complex character.
Any help much appreciated.
ps My character is image rather than vector based.
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Post by dueyftw »

The rigging changes for you needs. Simple hair movement, a few bones. Complex, many. Same for face, body, etc. There is no set rig. but is more of a skill learned by trial and error. Not only bones can warp a raster image but can enlarge or shrink.

And sometimes if your working with raster, you will need to do some frame by frame, AS can't do everything.

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Post by slice11217 »

you can try this:

viewtopic.php?t=8301&highlight=head+turns

things have been updated quite a bit since this was first posted but the ideas themselves still work.
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Post by AmigaMan »

I recently did this one.....

http://blog.smithmicro.com/cgi-bin/bblo ... anime_stud

Edit: Just noticed you wanted image rather than vector based. This is for characters created with vectors in AS
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Post by neeters_guy »

Thank you! I was waiting for this. I'm looking forward to reading it! :D
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Post by Shanty Baba »

Thanks for the tutorial.
Class job.
Cheers,

Shanty
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Post by gleeful »

Great tutorial! It will be a frequent reference and resource for me for a long time to come.

Thanks!!
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Post by pez »

Thank you for the tutorial.

It helped me figure out how to improve the mouth animation, among other things.
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Post by AmigaMan »

Thanks for the kind comments all. It's quite scary putting out a tutorial and took me a lot longer than I imagined. I thought about doing a video tutorial first but decided I would have to get somebody to dub the narration as I wouldn't want to inflict my Brummie accent on anyone :D I tend to prefer .pdf tutorials myself as I can print them out and easily follow with them next to the computer or read them elsewhere so that seemed a better, if more work intensive, option.
Thanks again.
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