ZV RADIAL BLEND SHAPE 3.0

What is ZV Radial Blend Shape?

ZV Radial Blend Shape is a deformer node particularly useful for facial animation. ZV RBS makes eyelid and eyebrow deformations extremely easy to setup!

Features:

  • Blend
  • Twist
  • Blink
  • Controls
  • Follow
  • Cornea
Compatibility: Maya 2014-2025
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License: MIT

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Is ZV Radial Blend Shape saving you from hours of work? I hope it does! Keep in mind this plugin will be always free of charge.

You can contribute to the development of ZV Radial Blend Shape with as much or as little as you want.

Thank you so much!

Help

Walkthrough

Before starting check the readme file to make sure the deformer and the tool are installed properly.

In this walkthrough I will show you how to create a radial blend shape and how to use all its features.
The file you need for this walkthrough is “rbs_start_here.ma” included in the ZV Radial Blend Shape package. This scene includes a base mesh, brow and lid shapes, some controls and a locator. No connections, constraints or deformers are present. Just the assets.

Part 1 - Getting Started

Part 2 - Lid shapes

Part 3 - Cornea deformation

Part 4 - Side movement

Part 5 - Connecting controls

Part 6 - Brows

Part 7 - Wrapping up

Part 8 - Rig integration