Creating Face Rig for Facial Animations

You can freely create comprehensive facial control rigs for high-poly and lightweight characters which contains over 390 facial morphs for CC5 HD characters, and 140 for CC3+ characters, as well as more than 60 standard facial morphs for ActorCore 3D extras and crowd sim.

1. Create a character in Character Creator or iClone (in this case, Character Creator).
   
2. Export the character.
3. In Maya, import the character by Character Creator & iClone Auto Setup plugin.
   
4. Select either part of the character.
   
5. Click the Create Face Rig button in the Character Creator & iClone Auto Setup plugin.
   
6. System will instantly apply a Face Control Board next to the character.
   
   It is recommended that you create a new viewport to focus on the face control board. and focus to the character in other camera view.
   
7. Drag the sliders in the face board to create facial expression key. You are actually adjust the morph sliders in the Channel Box / Layer Editor panel.
   
   Also refer to the following video.
   
8. Render the scene to image or video.