“Creature modeling and facial animation on Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace” by Campbell and Phillips
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- Creature modeling and facial animation on Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
Session/Category Title: Star Wars Episode I Creature Development
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- Modeling / Geometry and Production & Animation
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For “Episode I,” the duties of the creature modelers at Industrial Light & Magic involved building the static models, either from scanned maquettes or by sculpting from scratch, building libraries of facial shapes and expressions for the talking creatures, and working with the envelopers responsible for the flexible skin models to sculpt corrective adjustments.
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