Book Description

This comletely updated edition of the classic AnimatingFacial Features & Expressions bring this resource up to date with today’stools and techniques. Written to teach 3D artists, designers, and animators howto add realism to their character’s expressions, this is a one-of-a-kindreference you’ll want to add to your collection. The book begins by teachingyou about the anatomy of the human head, facial features, and facial muscles.From there it teaches you how to recreate the human face and muscle structure in3D and then how to make it move in realistic, believable fashion. The book isfilled with detailed instruction for lyp synching and creating visualexpressions for speech and sound under a variety of conditions (sad, happy,stuttering, etc.). It provides visual reference charts of morph targets forweighted human expressions, typical human phonemes, cartoon expressions, facialexpressions, and just-for-fun cartoon expressions. In this edition there arealso two new chapters that teach you how to use 3ds Max and Maya for animatingfacial expressions. All of these techniques can also be applied to your ownaliens, animals, creatures, and other animated creations. If you want yourcharacters to have truly realistic facial expressions, you’ll learn everythingyou need to know in this indispensable resource.

Key Features

• Provides 3D designers and animators with a detailed reference for creating realistic facial expressions
• Includes completely updated coverage of the latest tools and techniques
• Includes two new chapters: Animating Facial Expressions with 3ds Max, and Animating Facial Expressions with Maya
• Provides new coverage of facial expressions animated with Bones, and Expressions using generic controls such as linked Xforms
• Includes a companion CD-ROM with support files for the tutorials, color versions of figures, 50 facial expression templates, and sample facial animations

Author Bio(s)

David Kalwick (Encinitas, CA) is a Discreet CertifiedInstructor. He has written several books on 3ds max, and has taught thousands of3D artists through corporate training seminars and personal instruction. Heteaches at the Art Institute of California, San Diego and the University ofCalifornia, San Diego Extension. In addition, he is the founder of AbsoluteZero, a presentation graphics company that specializes in forensic animation andinteractive trial presentations. His animations have supported numerous trialteams, and have been used in technical and medical applications throughout theworld.

Author: David Kalwick

ISBN: 1-58450-474-9
Pub Date: Available April, 2006
Format: Book