“Modeling expressive 3D caricatures”
Abstract:
The concepts of abstraction, simplification and exaggeration, which are very common in traditional art and caricature, can directly be applied to the 3D modeling process. Therefore, the development of methods to teach these concepts is essential for 3D computer art and design education. In this work, we present an educational method to teach students these artistic concepts by modeling expressive 3D caricatures. This method has been successfully used in a geometric modeling course that combines artistic and scientific aspects of 3D modeling. Using the method, all the students, regardless of their artistic abilities, can create convincing 3D caricatures.
References:
E. Akleman. Making Caricatures with Morphing. Visual Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH’97, 134, Aug. 1997.
Acknowledgements:
We want to thank all the students who have taken the Computer Aided Sculpting courses taught in the last two years. Their hardwork motivated this paper. We specifically thank Jacob Brooks, Angelique Ford, Eric Andraos, Frank Chance, Radhika Thirunarayanan, Kevin Singleton, Michael Stanley and Ellen Trinh by letting us to use their work in our submission.
