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Creating Anime Facial Expressions | Pose & Emotion Breakdown

Facial expressions in anime are often pushed, stylized, and emotionally clear — and that all starts with strong posing. In this video, I break down how I create anime-style facial expressions in Maya, focusing on exaggerated poses and clear emotional intent. Using an anime character, I walk through my thought process as an animator and explain why certain facial poses work better than others for communicating emotion. This video covers: How to approach facial posing for anime characters Pushing expressions while keeping them readable Using pose and shape to clearly sell emotion Translating anime-style exaggeration into Maya This breakdown is aimed at animators and artists who want to improve their facial posing and better understand how emotion is communicated in anime-style characters. If you found this helpful, let me know which expression or character you’d like to see explored next Timecode 0:00 - Intro 0:15 - Rig I will use 0:47 - Let's start 1:01 - Pose 1 1:58 - Apply squash and stretch with the posing 2:45 - Timelapse - Creating angry mouth shape 2:54 - Adding A Symmetry in the face 3:17 - Squashing 1 side of the face 4:23 - Cheek puffs 5:00 - Final tweaks for angry pose 5:34 - Creating Extreme Angry pose 5:52 - Timelapse - Focusing on sharp and strong shapes 6:08 - Moving the teeth around 6:23 - Timelapse - Sculpting mouth shape with tweakers 6:41 - Reviewing poses 7:05 - Half eyelid pose - Chilled 7:25 - Tipmelapse - Posing a carefree eye pose using tweakers 7:34 - Mirror Tool! 7:59 - Timelapse - Posing Eyebrows 8:04 - Reviewing Poses 8:13 - Posing a Happy expression 8:33 - Exploring ideas 8:57 - Opening up the face 9:01 - Timelapse - More white around the eyes + posing mouth 9:44 - Super Happy Expression 10:39 - Timelapse - continuing with the posing 10:52 - Final Thoughts 11:09 - Outro