Easy Face Weight: fast, clean face weights for your facial rig

Painting weights for a full facial rig by hand takes hours. Easy Face Weight does the heavy lifting: mark your face regions with colored lines, click once, and every face bone gets its own clean weights. Then smooth the result live and turn your facial poses into shape keys.

What you get

• One-click face bones. Load Face Bones brings in a ready face armature and a Heat bones armature. Bones are found by name, so there is nothing to map by hand.
• Color-line regions. Mark loop edges in color to tell the add-on where each part of the face begins and ends (eyelids, brows, nose, lips, cheeks, ears and more). Mirror X marks both sides at once, so you only draw one.
• Clean weights that stay in their area. Each part stays inside its own loop. On the line itself the part and the head share the weight 50/50, and outside it the head takes 1.0. Nothing leaks into the neighbouring area.
• Smart jaw. The jaw is handled automatically, and you can optionally draw a Jaw Line to say exactly where the jaw area ends.
• Eyes, tongue and teeth. A separate button gives them heat weights. A tongue chain is blended between its bones.
• Live smoothing. Smooth All, Head Smooth and Line Smooth sliders update the weights in real time. Each part (eyebrows, nose, eyelashes, lips, cheeks, ears, chin, jaw) also has its own smoothing slider.
• Pose to Shape Key. Pose the face bones, click, and the pose becomes a shape key. Keys are named Easy Face Shape Key 1, 2, 3 and so on, and you can reset the pose afterwards.

How it works

1. Click Load Face Bones.
2. Mark the face regions with color lines (Mirror X on).
3. Click Face Weights.
4. Adjust the smoothing sliders.
5. Click Eye Tongue Teeth Weights for the eyes, tongue and teeth.
6. Pose the face and click Pose to Shape Key.

Requirements

• Blender 5.2 or newer