So earlier today I was just scrolling through Twitter and saw this screenshot of Kim Kardashian’s avatar crying in Roblox. It looked absolutely ridiculous – like her face was melting or something. I couldn’t stop laughing. But then I wondered why it looks so weird and whether we can actually fix this nonsense. Grabbed some coffee and decided to figure this out myself.
First Step: Recreating The Problem
Hopped into Roblox Studio and found a basic Kim K avatar model floating around. Went straight into facial animation settings. When I pulled up the crying animation slider, bam! Instant disaster face. Her eyes went all squinty and diagonal, while her mouth looked like a stretched rubber band. It reminded me of those failed Snapchat filters.
Why It Breaks So Badly
Started dissecting the facial rig structure and realized two big issues:
- Roblox’s generic rig sucks for real faces – Their preset expressions work fine for cartoon characters but not for realistic human features
- Texture mapping nightmares – When you apply Kim’s actual face texture to a Roblox head mesh, it stretches all wrong during animations
My Messy Fixing Process
Decided to manually rebuild the facial animations frame by frame:
- Cranked up the magnification and worked on eye shapes first – made sure pupils stayed circular instead of becoming footballs
- Redrew the tear paths so they actually followed cheek contours instead of floating in mid-air
- Biggest headache was the mouth – had to create 12 (!) separate keyframes just to stop it from looking like a Halloween mask
Tested it five times and kept getting new glitches each attempt. One version made her left eyebrow disappear completely – no clue where it went.
What Actually Worked
After three hours of swearing at sliders, here’s what finally made it look human:
- Ditched default expressions – Roblox’s cry preset is beyond saving
- Manually contoured cheek lines so tears don’t levitate
- Layer animations in sequence instead of all at once
Uploaded the new version and – holy crap – it actually looked like a real person crying instead of a melting wax figure. Still not perfect but way less meme-worthy.
Whole thing made me realize celebrity avatars need custom rigs from the start. Generic Roblox animations will always turn realistic faces into comedy gold. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go unclench my hands after all that mouse-clicking.
