From the course: Maya: Facial Rigging

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Creating mouth and lip control splines

Creating mouth and lip control splines - Maya Tutorial

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Creating mouth and lip control splines

- [Narrator] With the jaw rigged, we can now move on to the mouth and lip controls. Now there's going to be quite a few controls. So let's go ahead and take a look at what we have. I've drawn in most of these. Now, most of these are just nerves circles. So we have upper lip controls for right, center and left as well as lower lip controls for the same. Now these will simply control those blend shapes we created that manipulate that small portion of the lips. Now we also have this control called Control Mouth Left and this will control things such as smile and frown as well as expanding the lips either left and right. So going from a wide grin to a pursed lip. So basically this will be able to move in two dimensions up and down and left and right. These will move just vertically. Now I've got these controls created and named. But we do need to put them into the hierarchy. So let's go into outliner. So these three…

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