Stop staring : facial modeling and animation done right / Jason Osipa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osipa, Jason.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer animation.

Computer graphics.

Facial expression in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (434 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Other Title:

Facial modeling and animation done right

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, IN : Sybex, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The de facto official source on facial animation-now updated! If you want to do character facial modeling and animation at the high levels achieved in today's films and games, Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right, Third Edition, is for you. While thoroughly covering the basics such as squash and stretch, lip syncs, and much more, this new edition has been thoroughly updated to capture the very newest professional design techniques, as well as changes in software, including using Python to automate tasks.Shows you how to create facial animation for movi

Contents:

Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right, Third Edition; Acknowledgments; About the Author; About the Author; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Getting to Know the Face; Chapter 1: Learning the Basics of Lip Sync; The Essentials of Lip Sync; Analyzing the Right Things; Speech Cycles; Starting with What's Most Important: Visemes; Why Phonemes Aren't Best for CGI; Visemes Aren't Tied to Individual Sounds; Representative Shapes; Relative Shapes; The Simplest Lip Sync; Creating a Sync Tool 1: Shapes; Creating a Sync Tool 2: Setup; Using the Sync Tool

Chapter 2: What the Eyes and Brows Tell UsThe Two Major Brow Movements; Brows Up and Down; Brows Squeeze; The Brow Squeeze Is Every Expression; The Upper Lids' Effect on Expression; The Upper Lids Show Alertness; The Upper Lids Usually Stay Relative to the Pupil and Iris; The Lower Lids' Effect on Expression; The Value of a Good Squint; Squint Is Not Emotion Specific; Eyelines: Perception vs. Reality; Headline vs. Eyelines; Implied Eyelines; Distraction Is the Enemy of Performance; Chapter 3: Facial Landmarking; Introduction to Landmarking; Landmarking by Example

Fixing a Shape by Fixing Its SurroundingsThe Landmarking Process; Landmarks Are Obvious When They're Alone; Landmarking Mouth Creases; Landmarking to Plan a Point Layout; Where Is the Crease Most Intense?; Even the Big Boys Sometimes Get It Wrong; Creasing Applied to Each Shape; Landmarking Brow Creases; Brows Up/Raise; The Shape of Brow Creases; Brows Down/Squeeze; Landmarking the Tilt of the Head; Every Expression Has a Tilt; The Significance of Tilts; Part II: Animating and Modeling the Mouth; Chapter 4: Visemes and Lip Sync Technique; Sync: Wide/Narrow Grows Up; Visemes vs. Sounds

Breaking Sounds DownThe Best Order of Sync Operations; Learn-While-Doing Sync: "Hey, buddy, I don't like your face"; Finessing Sync; Sync Subtleties; Sync Example 1: "What am I sayin' in here?"; Identifying Visemes; Identifying Open/Closed; Finessing; Sync Example 2: "Was it boys?"; Identifying Visemes; Identifying Open/Closed; Finessing; Chapter 5: Constructing a Mouth and Nose; The Best Edge Flow; Modeling in Circles; Modeling for Movement; The Big Picture; Building the Lips; Edge Loop Consistency into the Mouth; Cross-Sections; Building the Surrounding Mouth Area; Photorealism

Cartoony SnoutBuilding the Nose; A Moment of Hands-On; Connecting the Nose and Mouth; Continuing Toward the Jaw and Cheek; Building Teeth; A Real-Life Lesson in Gums; Creating Teeth; Building the Tongue; Shaping a Basic Tongue; A More Refined Tongue; The Mouth Wall; Chapter 6: Mouth Keys; Order of Operations; Preparing to Build a Key Set; Key Set Construction; Default Shapes, Additive Shapes, and Tapering; Additive Shapes Explained; Tapering: Subtraction of Shapes; The Default Shape Is Bored. Period.; Deciding What to Include; What to Build?; Binding Sufficiently for Building

Building the Shapes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612817465

9780470939611

0470939613

9781282817463

1282817469

9780470939598

0470939591

OCLC:

676698339