Steve DiPaola : facial portfolio

facade system

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facade facial system

parameterized modeling/animation
used on several film, siggraph projects

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Facade - 3D parameterized facial system - Designed and implemented an interactive 3D facial modeling and animation system capable of animating realistic and stylized heads. The system (~ 15K lines of C, SGI OpenGL), which uses an integrated parameterized approach, has been used in several award winning research and commercial projects (See Awards). Features include: user specified deformation tools, spline-based parameterized key-framing, sophisticated track library facility, automatic lip syncing from an audio source (patented). Characters like these, created and animated using Facade have appeared in Siggraph, Film, TV, and Music Video projects. Facade was first described in the Siggraph 89 Facial Animation Course I participated in.