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By Data Juggler - 2 Years Ago Holding My Breath Until 550 Subscribers. I am at 549 now. There isn't a built a way into animate skin textures, that I can find. If there is, please tell me. How I did this was I animated the scene just applying Puffy Cheeks and a few idle motions. Then I wrote a quick program to reduce the skin texture (not the lips and dark spots) and I reduced the green by 1 and the red by 2 for each of 32 segments. Each segment is 200 frames long. Then each time before I rendered a segment, I changed Skin_Head and then rendered 0-199 with the first picture, 200 - 399 with the second, etc.  It seems like a few of the frames towards the end get lighter not bluer, I may have accidently selected the wrong skin for a segment. The only thing I learned the hard way, again, was I had to go back and uncheck Physics from the hair, else it moves each time. By Rampa - 2 Years Ago You can also just animate the strength of a blue texture in the overlay channel. It will be much easier, I think. Any slider that is green can be animated. The texture strength is green, and so can be animated. By Data Juggler - 2 Years Ago OK, thanks. By Rampa - 2 Years Ago Doh! Sorry. gave you the harder method. Coffee has now been consumed. :) You can just key the diffuse of the material to any color you want. So set it to blue down the timeline. By 4u2ges - 2 Years Ago Doh! Sorry. gave you the harder method... Nah, that was correct one. Flat diffuse does it literally, which is not a good choice in most cases. Blend channel on the other hand is actually very much neglected.  But it's powerful when it comes to animating texture or randomizing to some degree a tiled Base Color (like for grass fields). Particularly when making masks in Multiply mode with sRGB selected. (white color in Blend channel leaves Base Color texture intact). Another method is to make animated base color texture (MP4). It can be made in most NLE from Base Color image using variable masks and effects. By Data Juggler - 2 Years Ago Wow, I didn't realize you could use a .mp4 for the skin texture. Luckily, I didn't have anything else to do yesterday, but it was the difference of rendering  once, verse rendering 32 times. I also didn't have change the texture 32 times. This why I don't mind speaking, even when I am wrong. That is how you learn. Thanks all.