Book - Stop Staring
I’ve been meaning for a while to recommend books on RSArt - books that I own personally or have at work, books that I think are useful to games artists. Since I am predominantly a character artist, I suspect that most of the books I own and thus recommend will be character based too.
I’ll start by recommending Stop Staring by Jason Osipa. Stop Staring, whilst targeted towards Maya users, is an incredibly useful book for learning good facial topology no matter what package you use. It explains how expressions are constructed, and covers important aspects in facial animation such as what you should leave OUT of an animation, as well as what you need to actually animate.
This book however is not for total beginners (although I’m sure that you’d still learn something useful). However if you have some limited knowledge and want to improve your understanding of facial animation, then I can’t recommend it highly enough.
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