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laura_seabrook) wrote2006-06-23 11:42 am
laura_seabrook) wrote2006-06-23 11:42 am
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Expression Facial Animation Project
I'm at NUSA, and was trying to find a link for Brian to Synfig, an "industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package", when I came across the Expression Facial Animation Project!
The image at left is from the home page of this. Looks sort of creepy (and also like it was Drawn by Richard Corben) but... ...gasp! The home page says that the purpose of the project is a " [r]eal time facial animation package based on muscle model of the face. Includes basic scripting language, full API, animation compositing, tools for creating and exporting muscles in 3D studio max."
Don't have 3D studio max but I do have a converter program. Apparently you can also use it to read text out (asuming you have one of those text to speech engines) though I'm not sure I'd want to watch a moving head like this on on my PC.
Whatever will they think of next?
The image at left is from the home page of this. Looks sort of creepy (and also like it was Drawn by Richard Corben) but... ...gasp! The home page says that the purpose of the project is a " [r]eal time facial animation package based on muscle model of the face. Includes basic scripting language, full API, animation compositing, tools for creating and exporting muscles in 3D studio max."Don't have 3D studio max but I do have a converter program. Apparently you can also use it to read text out (asuming you have one of those text to speech engines) though I'm not sure I'd want to watch a moving head like this on on my PC.
Whatever will they think of next?