Expressive Rigging for 3D Chat Character

I have a 3D character model — I need your help to make it animation-ready and expressive for a voice to voice chat app.

Here’s what I need from you:

1. Rigging & Facial Controls

Rig the character (body + face)

Add blend shapes for mouth phonemes (A, E, I, O, U, M) and basic emotions (neutral, happy, thinking, surprised, blink)

Keep it simple and light enough for real-time animation

2. Core Loop Animations

Idle loop (gentle breathing, head sway, subtle blinking – 5–10 sec)

Listening loop (slight head tilt or attentive pose – 3–5 sec)

Happy emotion loop (small smile or head bob – 2–3 sec)

3. Lip-Sync Test

Hook up the phonemes to a short speech sample and make sure the mouth movement looks natural

Just need a 10-second test video showing the lip-sync working

4. Lighting & Export

Use neutral lighting (daylight tone)

Export final files in GLB or FBX format with textures ready for real-time use

Deliverables:

Rigged model (GLB/FBX)

Idle, Listening, and Happy animations

Lip-sync demo video (10s)

Final exports with textures