Regarding that script, of course you'd need to change the namespace to ex: malcolm_v200: I don't know about the batch script issue. Have you tried importing the reference before rendering? I am not sure of what you mean by importing the reference, but I did unload, reload and relinked the reference...

So, whenever I render from the viewport 2.0, everything is fine, but when I batch render, all his facial animation is gone. I've searched the forums but couldn't find anything besides reloading the reference, which I did a gazillion times from different files and didn't help. I also tried the follow...