I wish I had an example for Danny, but I can’t find one unfortunately. Free rigged Blender 3D models for download, files in blend with royalty-free license and extended usage rights. This is like my secret weapon haha, I do this multiple times whenever I’m working on a project… it’s so much easier to think about good face shapes in the 2D plane vs 3D imo. On the modeling side, I super recommend exporting a screen grab or a render from blender and take it into photoshop or gimp or whatever and painting over it, either with liquidify or just straight drawing. Rigging is the process of creating an invisible 'skeleton' for a model, which will be used to control the model for animation. Just seeing how they function helps you understand how the face works and how the rig should move. I also would super recommend looking up what other people have done for face rigs, both stuff you can get for blender (the Jane rig is super good, just got it recently and I’m currently trying to understand it) and also watching what pros do for rigs in maya, just on youtube or something. Prepare the face for rigging? So on the rigging side, the new rigify face rig really helps a lot, since it’s so easy to build the rig and see if it works, adjust the metarig, and then rebuild it.

Free rigged blender models