Character Rigging | Yori | Part XIII

I'd like to thank my friend and Character Artist, Miki Bishop, for letting me use this character for this series.

https://mikibishop.com/

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Lower Face Controls and Lip Ribbon

The lip ribbons are the same setup we did for the brows, except for one change:

These two extra joints are going to hold the skinning for the sides of the lower lip ribbon. Previously I had it so the original mouth corner joints were had the skinning for both upper and lower lip ribbon corners; as a result, even when I parented all my lower lip controls to the jaw, the corners got stuck at the top and it looked ugly.

Here's how the skinning looks now that each lip has a separate set of joints for skinning:

And here's the video for today!

Scripts Used - reminder again:

Here's another blog post where you can find the Maya Shelf for download.

-Fernanda