Facial Animation Preparation

Before I started to rig the facial expressions of my characters I decided to look on the internet for different pictures of complex facial emotions. I would use these as a guideline to form emotions and expressions for my characters.


I found these useful but as I was not animation a human or highly orgaic character I decided to look for some more 'cartoony' facial emotions that might be more useful to me.


These were more useful to me but as the facial features of my characters were limited I carried on searching for reference pictures that would be more useful still. I then chanced upon a set of very basic cartoon emotions which suited my needs perfectly. They were ideal because all the facial features were detached like those on my character models.


I used this set of facial emotions as a guide for rigging the faces of my characters.