Hey, thanks, I appreciate it!

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Without seeing it, I'd take a guess that it could be a deformation order thing.

Next to the magnet icons in the status line (the snapping tools) are a couple of buttons labeled Inputs and...

By default, when you create any primitives in Maya (ie. spheres) they are given a default shader called Lambert1. It's a good rule of thumb to not edit Lambert1 as if you do, anything you make in the...

so, the goal for UVing is to lay out the UVs in a way that makes it easy to create a texture with as few seams as possible. What I typically do for unusually shaped models is start off with an...

I see. What I've typically done in the past with head blendshapes is use the character's clothes or some other obvious "divider" between the head and the body as a geometry seam. Like if the...

One thing that I'd personally recommend is, before UVing, do some geometry cleanup. You have what looks like a lot of extra edges that you more than likely don't need. With less superfluous geometry...

I think you'll need to do render passes, such as a specular pass that you can layer on top of your diffuse pass, etc.

There are lots of potential ways to do this. Without seeing what exactly you're going for, it's a little difficult to pinpoint exactly which would be the best way.

You could, for example, use a...

Just curious, is there a reason you don't want to combine the meshes together? If you combine the mesh and then merge the vertices at the seam (so that instead of having 2 stacked verts along the...