Transferring the Rig and Animations from a Character to Different Face Models

dc.contributor.authorOrvalho, Veronica Costaen_US
dc.contributor.authorZacur, Ernestoen_US
dc.contributor.authorSusin, Antonioen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-21T13:21:49Z
dc.date.available2015-02-21T13:21:49Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractWe introduce a facial deformation system that allows artists to define and customize a facial rig and later apply the same rig to different face models. The method uses a set of landmarks that define specific facial features and deforms the rig anthropometrically. We find the correspondence of the main attributes of a source rig, transfer them to different three-demensional (3D) face models and automatically generate a sophisticated facial rig. The method is general and can be used with any type of rig configuration. We show how the landmarks, combined with other deformation methods, can adapt different influence objects (NURBS surfaces, polygon surfaces, lattice) and skeletons from a source rig to individual face models, allowing high quality geometric or physically-based animations. We describe how it is possible to deform the source facial rig, apply the same deformation parameters to different face models and obtain unique expressions. We enable reusing of existing animation scripts and show how shapes nicely mix one with the other in different face models. We describe how our method can easily be integrated in an animation pipeline. We end with the results of tests done with major film and game companies to show the strength of our proposal.en_US
dc.description.number8en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume27en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01187.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages1997-2012en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01187.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltden_US
dc.titleTransferring the Rig and Animations from a Character to Different Face Modelsen_US
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