Breathe life into your creations
With detailed examples, high-quality professional images, and atouch of humor, this is the fully revised and updated secondedition of Jason Osipa's best-selling book on facial animation.You'll learn the basics of design, modeling, rigging, andanimation-while mastering exciting new techniques forstretch-and-squash deformation, advanced blend extraction, and thelatest software tools. Walk through the author's detailed analysisof sample animations and discover how to add nuance andsophistication to your designs.
Full of insights drawn from years of professional experience,this book provides the focused and practical information you needto create believable facial animations.
* Learn visimes and lip sync techniques
* Construct a mouth and mouth keys
* Explore the process of facial landmarking
* Master the cartoon techniques of squash and stretch
* Harness the latest advanced blend extraction tools
* Create interfaces for your faces
* Understand skeletal setup, weighting, and rigging
Control faces with the book's powerful rig and learn how skinmoves to make various shapes and expressions
Master powerful stretch-and-squash (and squoosh!) techniques
Featured on the CD
Fine-tune your facial animations with the techniques demonstratedon the companion CD. Content includes tutorial files, lip syncsamples, models, textures, and more.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials arenot included as part of eBook file.
Jason Osipa
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