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Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

Jason Osipa - Collection Serious skills

368 pages, parution le 15/05/2007 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

With detailed examples, high-quality professional images, and a touch of humor, this is the fully revised and updated second edition of Jason Osipa's best-selling book on facial animation. You'll learn the basics of design, modeling, rigging, and animation-while mastering exciting new techniques for stretch-and-squash deformation, advanced blend extraction, and the latest software tools. Walk through the author's detailed analysis of sample animations and discover how to add nuance and sophistication to your designs.

Full of insights drawn from years of professional experience, this book provides the focused and practical information you need to 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 skin moves 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 demonstrated on the companion CD. Content includes tutorial files, lip sync samples, models, textures, and more.

L'auteur - Jason Osipa

Jason Osipa is currently directing in San Francisco at LucasArts, where he also works with sister company ILM on new ways to converge the tools and techniques of games and film. He has been a working professional in 3D content for over 10 years, touching television, games, direct-to-video, and film in both Canada and the United States. Carrying titles from author to modeler to animator to technical director, Jason has seen and experienced the world of 3D content creation and instruction from all sides.

Sommaire

Getting to Know the Face
- Learning the Basics of Lip Sync
- What the Eyes and Brows Tell Us
- Facial Landmarking
Animating and Modeling the Mouth
- Visimes and Lip Sync Technique
- Constructing a Mouth
- Mouth Keys
Animating and Modeling the Eyes and Brows
- Building Emotion: The Basics of the Eyes
- Constructing Eyes and Brows
- Eye and Brow Keys
Bringing It Together
- Connecting the Features
- Skeletal Setup, Weighing, and Rigging
- Interfaces for Your Faces
- A Shot in Production

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Sybex
Auteur(s)	Jason Osipa
Collection	Serious skills
Parution	15/05/2007
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	368
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780471789208
ISBN13	978-0-471-78920-8