KineFX 101: Rigging a Face from Scratch

In this Tutorial I build a facial rig from scratch with Houdini KineFX! Hip File and Template HDA available on my Patreon! Patreon: 00:00 Intro 01:50 Isolating the Face 03:00 Blendshapes Premise 5:11 Painting Deformation Masks 11:20 Creating Poses For Mouth Blendshapes 15:10 Mouth Joints for Rotation Deformation 26:10 Applying Painted Deformation Masks and Introducing Blurring 29:55 Merging Blendshapes and Mouth Joint Deformation together 30:39 Using Point Deform and Delta Mush to smooth Deformation 32:10 Eyebrows Building the Curve Solver 40:20 Mirroring The Eyebrow Curve Solver 41:40 Creating the Eyebrow Wire Deformer 45:47 Combining Eyebrow and Mouth Deformations with Differencing 49:48 Cheekbones 56:28 Combine Cheek Deformation with Rest Of Rig through Differencing 58:10 Eyelids, Ears, Nose, And Jaw Deformers 01:09:50 Combining the Deformers 01:12:58 Prepping the rig for HDA 01:15:50 Kine