No. While this course follows on from RIG, the information is designed so that both courses are self contained. More content is planned in this suite of rigging courses so there will be a buffet of valuable information to level up your skills when it time for you to do that.
Before you can bend shape keys to your will, it's a good idea to learn how the actually work, and all the buttons you need to press to keep everything ship shape.
Learn how to create corrective shapes and how to activate them automatically (or not). This will help you keep your models looking in any position.
You will create several shapes that work in concert with each other to be able to animate the mouth on this cute cube character.
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I finally can say I understand what shape keys can and can't do, and that clears up all the frustration I had trying to play with them before I took this course. The exercises built up the skill slowly and when it came to the final exercise it didn't feel hard at all. It all just made sense! Awesome.
Wayne has some magic way of breaking down complex topics in a super easy way to follow along, and this course was no different. I particularly love that we used a lot of drivers in very useful applications that can easily translate to my own projects, and that in the end I don't feel intimidated by the driver editor anymore. Bonus!
I think it helps if you are comfortable navigating bones, armatures, constraints, widgets and so on, so you can focus just on the Shape Keys and drivers. Previously taking the Fundamentals of Rigging definitely helped me there.
And Cubey is adorable. I might want to finish rigging his mouth and finally take the lip synching course that's been on my list for a while now.
This is a great course if you want to know more about shape keys. The explanations are easy to understand and the examples show you where the technique could be used. Also if you ever found drivers and the driver editor confusing, you won't by the end of the course. The feed back from Wayne on the exercises is helpful and encouraging.