So I'm working on a facial rig, and I don't think I've ever made on before, and I've been playing with it all morning, but I just reall have no concept of what I'm doing, so I'm wondering if there's a facial rig kicking around like there is the 2008 rig or something, or can someone post a pic of a proper facial rig and it's CP assignments and hierarchy or some resource that may benefit me. Thanks

This may be of help to you
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=36557

aw man, now i'm jealous

it is of some help, though it would be nice to see the bones, or have the rig

Umm can't find it but heres Davids wich works fine with the 208 rig I think you can allso use the one for the light rig .scroll down a bit
http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...7815&st=330

thanks, that looks like it'll help a lot

Hey Darkwing, it might be a smarter move if you explored some of the things that make CA so ez in A:M.
Alot of this stuff has been forgotten about with the advanced rigs that have beem made available to people, which are great for advanced animation...
but I think after reading your posts maybe you would benefit from just having minimal bones in the head/face.
for example, just have a head bone, bones for the eyes, 2pupil 2 eyeballs (4total) and a jaw bone.
then assign the control points appropriately and use poses to hold your control point and distortion box created standard lip shapes.
I used the basic tools for a couple jobs and it was a fairly ez process.
You can see a compressed sample of CA I did using just the above set up.
http://www.3dartz.com/vids/cbv/LPS33Web.mov

Mike Fitz
www.3dartz.com

so basically use a combo of bones and muscle mode to create my poses? that could work and would be significantly easier on me

yup. The bones in the face/eyes serve as the holding containers for the control points that you want to adjust during
lip shape creation or other area specific posing.