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Animate facial expressions. Animated facial expressions are a big part of character animation. It's common practice to use a blend shape deformer to create expressions from a large number of blend shape targets. The changes created in the targets can be mixed and matched by the deformer to create expressions and speech for a character.

Master It Create blend shape targets for the nancy character. Make an expression where the brows are up and another where the brows are down. Create a rig that animates each brow independently.

Create blend shape sequences. Blend shapes can be applied in a sequential order to animate a sequence of changes over time.

Master It Create a blend shape sequence of a mushroom growing.

Deform a 3D object. Lattices are free-form deformers that create a 3D cage around an object. The differences between the lattice and the lattice base are used to deform geometry.