See How Expressive Deadlock's Mina's Face Can Be With This Blender Rig

Amber RutherfordSenior Editor15 September 2026

Enjoy some fantastic character acting in zombielord999's animations.

3D Animator known as zombielord999 has been showcasing their impressive character animation and rigging skills lately, with Mina Ha from Valve's upcoming multiplayer game Deadlock taking the spotlight in their recent work. According to them, the character model was sourced from Open3DLab, and the rig is based on Project Storm, a high-quality, fully animation-ready stylized character rig released by Blender Studio last year.

There's also a possibility that zombielord999 could make their version of the rig publicly available in the future:

Another animation puts Mina's fluid hair movement on full display:

She's absolutely adorable, though realistically, she probably won't be acting this way around Pocket. The rig was created by zombielord999, with the animation fully hand-keyed using reference.

zombielord999 really seems to have a soft spot for Mina:

Keep scrolling for more neat animations from zombielord999:

For even more impressive facial rigging, check out JuanCarlos CR's mind-blowingly impressive work:

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Ehsan Bayat has just released a set of 16 sliders for Blender from Animo, which was originally developed for Maya:

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