Links for class 8 - Web based facial systems - Animating a blend shape face
Art 173a - The Illusion of Life: Facial Animation - Steve DiPaola

        Face animation is being used on the web in many different applications. From avatar email to webisodic facial entertainment to automatic newscasters -- making the web more social, as facial animation brings with it a new, easy to understand, social user interface.
        Most of these application use performance based animation techniques or animation derived from analyzing the voice with an automatic lipsync and expression system.
        Following are the links to sites that I discussed and demonstrated in my lecture.

Links:

facial entertainment and education sites:

Akinia.com (uses pulse plugin)
Virtual Dave (uses pulse plugin)
ira-info.com HR resource for pension planning (uses pulse plugin)
LIPSinc Presents Abraham Lincoln
Pulse
DotComix
 
avatar mail:
 
LifeFX- the face of the internet
famous3D
bioVirtual Realistic 3D People

facial news reader:

Ananova - www.ananova.com

 

 

bingo animation (as we discuss animating with blend shapes):

VFXPro Alias-Wavefront Plays Bingo