Blushing animation

Question

Can anyone tell me how to animate the face of a character looking at the camera and gradually getting a blush. I am amazed that I cannot find any answers on this and I have tried all the stuff about animating materials with AnimAll etc

All I want to do is make my model go red in the face over 10 seconds. No movement, just a change of colour.

Answer 1

It depends how you want this to happen. If you want for example the cheek to blush, you could do it this way:

• Unwrap your face with Smart UV Project mode.

• Create a blank image in the UV Editor, it will be your mask. Create a material with this image uploaded in an Image Texture node.

• In the 3D View, switch to Texture Paint mode, choose a black brush and begin to paint the area where the face is supposed to blush.

• In the Node Editor, mix the skin color with the blush color, use the image you've created as a mask. Your character now has red cheek. To make the blush appear you need a second Mix Shader before the Material Output.

• Now when you move the last Mix Shader factor it makes the blush appear gradually.