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Summer 2026:

TERM DATES: Jul 5, 2026 - Sep 19, 2026
LEVEL: Advanced
COURSE PREREQUISITES:Intermediate Rigging

Advanced Rigging

$1620

In this course, students learn facial rigging. AnimSchool's Malcolm 2.0 is known around the world, with over 100,000 downloads in dozens of countries. Our students learn facial rigging techniques that will help them break up facial articulation into the most usable set of functions and shapes and provide a greater range of motion. Students take their deformation work to a higher level of refinement, and develop their grasp of complex rigging issues to make performing characters.

(pre-requisite: Intermediate Rigging)
- Week 1: Introduction, topology, facial rigging philosophies

- Week 2: Eyebrows and Interpolators

- Week 3:Eyes

- Week 4: Lips I

- Week 5: Lips II

- week 6: Lips III

- week 7: Shapes I

- week 8: Shapes II

- Week 9: Squash, estretch and extra feature per character

- Week 10: Posing the rig and expression sheet
Critique Time * Class Time Instructor Notes
Thursday 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Daniele Dolci

ABOUT INSTRUCTORS

Daniele Dolci

Italy Flag Italy

Daniele discovered his passion for computer graphics and especially the most technical disciplines while he was still in highschool. After the graduation he started to travel far and wide and decided to enroll at animschool combining the advantages of remote studying with his desire of exploring the world. Since he started his career he has contributed to some blockbuster movies such as Pirates of Carebbean, Wonderwoman and Alien Covenant. He has chased productions and projects throughout Australia, England and Belgium, with some short stains also in other places such as in South Korea. He become facial rigging lead for an European production for which he developed a new rigging framework and a dedicated pipeline and, meanwhile, he pursued a Bachelor in Computer Engineering with honors.
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