Rigging and Drivers, Shape Key Face Expressions

Now that you’ve created your shape keys, how can you properly manage and animate with them? Adding drivers in Blender to your 3D model’s rig (armature) is a great way of speeding up the process of animation and of creating realistic face expressions, including lip syncing for speech.

If you still don’t have Blender, know that it’s open source and free to use software that you can utilize for 3D creation like modeling, animation, rendering, compositing (VFX), motion tracking, 2D animation (Grease Pencil), rigging and simulations, texturing. It’s time to get it on your machine – https://blender.org/download/