“Automatic Blend Shape Creation for Facial Motion Capture” by McGowen and Geigel

  • ©Victoria McGowen and Joe Geigel

  • ©Victoria McGowen and Joe Geigel

  • ©Victoria McGowen and Joe Geigel

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Entry Number: 43

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    Automatic Blend Shape Creation for Facial Motion Capture

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    Blend shape animation is one of the most common methods for facial animation used by animators. Creation of effective blend shapes is an investment as they can take a very long time to create, but once finished, help with consistency in animation. As this is a prime animation method, its extensive process can be off-putting to newcomers. This project is focused on creating a system that will automate the blend shape creation process. The resulting blend shapes could be used in a blend shape based facial motion capture system (eg. [Weise et al. 2011]). The goal of this application is to produce a comparable result to that of blend shapes done by hand for student projects.

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