Stop Staring
Home > Computing and Information Technology > Graphical and digital media applications > Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right
Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



Out of Stock


Notify me when this book is in stock
X
About the Book

This book helps you to breathe life into your creations. 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 authors' 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. It enables you to: 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; and 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. The CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the eBook file.

Table of Contents:
Introduction.PART I GETTING TO KNOW THE FACE.Chapter 1 Learning the Basics of Lip Sync.The Essentials of Lip Sync.Speech Cycles.Starting with What's Most Important: Visimes.The Simplest Lip Sync.Chapter 2 What the Eyes and Brows Tell Us.The Two Major Brow Movements.The Upper Lids' Effect on Expression.The Lower Lids' Effect on Expression.Eyelines: Perception vs. Reality.Distraction Is the Enemy of Performance.Chapter 3 Facial Landmarking.Introduction to Landmarking.Landmarking Mouth Creases.Landmarking Brow Creases.Landmarking the Tilt of the Head.PART II ANIMATING AND MODELING THE MOUTH.Chapter 4 Visimes and Lip Sync Technique.Sync: Wide/Narrow Grows Up.The Best Order of Sync Operations.Sync Example 1: "What am I sayin' in here?"Sync Example 2: "Was it boys?"Chapter 5 Constructing a Mouth and Nose.The Best Edge Flow.The Big Picture.Building the Lips.Building the Surrounding Mouth Area.Building the Nose.Connecting the Nose and Mouth.Building Teeth.Building the Tongue.The Mouth Wall.Chapter 6 Mouth Keys.Order of Operations.Preparing to Build a Key Set.Default Shapes, Additive Shapes, and ss2-blend-taper.mel.Building the Shapes.PART III ANIMATING AND MODELING THE EYES AND BROWS.Chapter 7 Building Emotion:The Basics of the Eyes.Building an Upper Face for Practice.Using "Box Head".Rules of the Game.Example Animations.Continuing and Practicing.Chapter 8 Constructing Eyes and Brows.Building Eyeballs.Building the Eye Sockets.Building the Forehead.Detailing the Inside of the Lid.Chapter 9 Eye and Brow Keys.Brow Shapes and Texture Maps.Building Realistic Brow Shapes.Building Stylized Brow Shapes.Tying Up Loose Ends.PART IV BRINGING IT TOGETHER.Chapter 10 Connecting the Features.Building the Ear.Assembling the Head Pieces.Chapter 11 Skeletal Setup, Weighting, and Rigging.Weighting the Head.The SS2 Eye Rig.Zipper Lips.Chapter 12 Interfaces for Your Faces.Using Expressions to Animate.Interface Concepts.Prep Work for Your Own Setup.Sharing Control Schemes.The "Just Do This" Part.Chapter 13 Squash and Stretch and Squoosh.Local Rigs.Global Rigs.The "Real" Character Has No Rig!Not Using Wraps Changes a Few Things.Tutorial: Rigging Squoosh.Gotchas.Chapter 14 A Shot in Production.Scene 1: Bartender.Scene 2: Lack of Dialogue.Scene 3: Dunce Cap.Scene 4: Salty Old Sea Captain.Scene 5: Pink or Blue?That's All, Folks!Index.

About the Author :
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.


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471789208
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right
  • Width: 187 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471789208
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 771 gr


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right
John Wiley and Sons Ltd -
Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!