Stop staring - Jason Osipa

Breathe life into your creations

With detailed examples, highquality professional images, and a touch of humor, this is the fully revised and updated second edition of Jason Osipas bestselling book on facial animation. Youll learn the basics of design, modeling, rigging, and animation while mastering exciting new techniques for stretchandsquash deformation, advanced blend extraction, and the latest software tools. Walk through the authors 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 books powerful rig and learn how skin moves to make various shapes and expressions

Master powerful stretchandsquash (and squoosh!) techniques

Featured on the CD

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