Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

Additional Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right Information

With detailed examples, high-quality professional images, and a touch of humor, this is the fully revised and updated second edition of Jason Osipa's best-selling book on facial animation. You'll learn the basics of design, modeling, rigging, and animation-while mastering exciting new techniques for stretch-and-squash deformation, advanced blend extraction, and the latest software tools. Walk through the author's detailed analysis of sample animations and discover how to add nuance and sophistication to your designs.

Full of insights drawn from years of professional experience, this book provides the focused and practical information you need to create believable facial animations. Learn visimes and lip sync techniques Construct a mouth and mouth keys Explore the process of facial landmarking Master the cartoon techniques of squash and stretch Harness the latest advanced blend extraction tools Create interfaces for your faces Understand skeletal setup, weighting, and rigging

Control faces with the book's powerful rig and learn how skin moves to make various shapes and expressions

Master powerful stretch-and-squash (and squoosh!) techniques

Featured on the CD
Fine-tune your facial animations with the techniques demonstrated on the companion CD. Content includes tutorial files, lip sync samples, models, textures, and more.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

What Customers Say About Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right:

I highly recommend this book. I previously was going about animation of lipsync in a way, that wasn't particularly wrong, but was much slower, and less efficent, and all and all produced poorer results. This book gives you a new way of working around lipsync. If you have been syncing for sometime and its the part of animation you have trouble with, or if it takes a large portion of your time this book is something you should consider.

I stongly recommend this book to beginners, intermediate or advanced users. Now my characters can express feelings. I didn't know such a detailed book exist. Jason covered in detail every part of the elements that make facial expressions.

I think if I had any complaint its that it feels like there should be MORE; its just a great start and wish there was at least one more follow up volume. I have to say that this was just a fantastic book and I was able to reference it quite a bit when working on a film and getting my first facial animation task.

The examples files and scripts are Maya based so these where not very usefull for me because I use 3ds Max and MotionBuilder. Good instructions for modeling. It would be helpfull if these files where also exported as FBX files. Stop staring is different from other books about facial animation and lip sync. Very usefull and gives good results.

In this book you can find techniques for facial animation, rigging basics and stretch and squash deformations, explain in a very detailed way.