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Animating Facial Shape Keys

Grade 1045 min

Learning Objective

I can use shape keys to create realistic and expressive facial animations.

Lesson Flow

Watch Video

5 min

Blender 4.2 | Shape Keys For Beginners - Powerful Tutorial

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Practice

14 min

7 questions • Short answer

Exit Ticket

5 min

“Describe the steps to create a "frown" shape key on the left side of a character's face, including how to select vertices and use proportional editing. Explain how to mirror a "sneer" shape key from the left side of a face to the right side, and why you might choose to manually adjust the mirrored shape key. ”

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