Eyelid Rig - Shape Keys | Blender Rigging For Animation

This is the first of four videos I'll be making where I'll investigate types of eyelid rigs.

0:00 - Introduction
0:42 - Add the shape key
1:00 - X-mirror
1:10 - Making the shape
2:40 - Cleaning up the shape
3:54 - Testing the shape
4:25 - Adding the rig
5:02 - Turning on x-mirror
5:36 - Duplicating the shape keys
6:30 - Adding Vertex Groups
7:00 - Assigning the groups
8:00 - Testing the groups
8:05 - Assign the group to the shapes
8:20 - Testing the shapes
8:30 - Adding the drivers
10:00 - Copy and paste the driver
10:44 - Testing out the rig
11:00 - Flipping the bone role
11:20 - Fixing the shapes and rotation mode
13:00 - Final thoughts

Let me know if you have any questions in the comment below!
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[CosmicComputer]

9:40 "just sort of eyeballing it here..." hehehe I see you boo. Honestly this is the best eye rig tutorial I've ever found, thanks!

[spicysalad]

this is exactly what I needed, I'm making a rig with nonhuman eyes and couldn't figure out how to rig it without sending my eyelid models off into space by accident, tysm for the clear tutorial
I might look at your other eyelid tutorials as well, they might be closer to what I need

[lucy-bfex]

THANK YOU. This has got to be one of the easiest tutorials for Blender I've seen EVER. And I've seen a lot of tutorials. Keep doing what you're doing, this was incredibly helpful.

[mayhem]

Thank you so much for explaining how things work and why you do things! I have learned so much from this single video than from a lot of other resources I've been studying. So many things make a lot more sense now!!

[MrWeda]

Thanks! I have not seen you useless lessons. All information is extremely interesting and important ...

Sincerely, Alexander.

[alxsilver]

Very nice explanation - short, to the point, and very useful

[MumuMusic]

like LM4277 below I'm stuck at step 8:30 : when I right-click the shape keys there's no 'add a driver' option (Blender 2.9)

[TioMegamanX]

14:05 You can select the vertices you are gonna move around and use CTRL+V and then smooth vertices to make the process a bit faster and then drag them around to fix the clipping.

[lumzalum]

This was the perfect for what I needed! Applied this technique to a 2D plain to make a Live2D blink effect.

[dampsz]

Man you are God of rigging in blender !! You doing great job keep going 💪💪💪

[thibright]

Really good thank you. I found most of blender's rigging tutorials on utube confusing, yours are really good

[amaranthseraphim]

If only humans blinked like this lol. I kept thinking "but my eyelids don't meet in the middle when I blink!"
Fantastic tutorial tho:)

[bastopia]

Just discovered this, awesome tutorial. Will try for sure, may be just what I need. Blender newbie by the way. Thanks :)

[blendflair]

Nice, looking forward to c the upcoming method's

[CircusPeanut]

LOVE this vid, I'm about to binge your channel... you really know what you're talking about. Thanks! +subbed.

[happysurfer]

Thanks. Wery useful and well explained, short and to the point. I was looking for something like this. Thanks again

[方エデン]

Thanks for the tutorial, it is good for beginners.

[Endarz]

very handy information. i'm in the midst of doing some modelling for VRChat and needed to know how to do something like this. again, very helpful

[DodaGarcia]

Could someone clarify what it means to put the bone in world space? I feel like I might be missing useful rigging information there.

[sriharivaila]

Nice work. And if you face problem of mesh not following the eye ball surface I think shrink wrap modifier can help.