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Hey guys I'm sure a lot of you are interested in character animation, however there isn't a lot of free facial models rigged for use. For those interested in facial animation, I'm posted a head of mine, rigged. It includes blendshapes. To be honest this is an old version of a head I completed a while back, This is kinda the raw file with the blendshapes pretty much done just in need of tweaking. I recently completed the file and was about to delete this version of it, but figured that I did put some work into it and maybe you guys could get some use out of it. I just did it to teach myself facial animation by using techniques from Jason Ospia's "Stop Staring", and though the final file differs greatly from this one, you can still probably crank out a semi decent lip sync with it, So you may use this as you need just not for commercial work.

Enjoy, really rip it apart. try making an interface for it, I have and am not posting that one haha, thats for personal use :) so enjoy and happy maya-ing

new file

included are:

Head model
eye model
eyelid weights for eye rotation
expression driven blendweights for teeth and neck fat
18 blendshapes for the teeth(tounge) and face

P.S: to open this file in maya 2009 or earlier go to file>open and click on the box next to it. click the check box that says "ignore version" so open fine:) Also, the eyes are currently constrained to empties. So by rotating the head the eyes stay straight on, Kinda a cool effect. delete if you want or just rotate the empty (though this file doesn't have the eyelid expressions I made)

Oh well run with it!