Breathe life into your creations
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.
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wat program its demo in?
maya or……….?
Maya, but the techniques are applicable to all programs. Its more about the thought process, with some technical aspects. Very useful information.
jup maya
Areeb, stop posting your site url everywhere, you have zero content
that is relevant.
sorry dear but iam doing this to promote the website
Does __ANYONE__ have the CD/DVD that is combined with this book and can upload it somewhere ?
There seems to be some interesting scripts and projects within it
I would like to have the cd too if anyone would like to give us a hand ;D
bye
CD Stop Staring- Facial Modelling and Animation done right- 2nd Edition.
http://rapidshare.com/files/416200846/SS2DCD.rar
cam, the .iso is encoded. would you please provide the password)
is it possible to upload the cd again because I’ve been searching the internet for days but nowhere to find
if you love it, buy it!
from the 3rd version:
http://www.sybex.com/WileyCDA/SybexTitle/Stop-Staring-Facial-Modeling-and-Animation-Done-Right-3rd-Edition.productCd-0470609907,navId-290573,pageCd-resources.html