Enriching Facial Blendshape Rigs with Physical Simulation

dc.contributor.authorKozlov, Yearaen_US
dc.contributor.authorBradley, Dereken_US
dc.contributor.authorBächer, Moritzen_US
dc.contributor.authorThomaszewski, Bernharden_US
dc.contributor.authorBeeler, Thaboen_US
dc.contributor.authorGross, Markusen_US
dc.contributor.editorLoic Barthe and Bedrich Benesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-22T16:25:41Z
dc.date.available2017-04-22T16:25:41Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractOftentimes facial animation is created separately from overall body motion. Since convincing facial animation is challenging enough in itself, artists tend to create and edit the face motion in isolation. Or if the face animation is derived from motion capture, this is typically performed in a mo-cap booth while sitting relatively still. In either case, recombining the isolated face animation with body and head motion is non-trivial and often results in an uncanny result if the body dynamics are not properly reflected on the face (e.g. the bouncing of facial tissue when running). We tackle this problem by introducing a simple and intuitive system that allows to add physics to facial blendshape animation. Unlike previous methods that try to add physics to face rigs, our method preserves the original facial animation as closely as possible. To this end, we present a novel simulation framework that uses the original animation as per-frame rest-poses without adding spurious forces. As a result, in the absence of any external forces or rigid head motion, the facial performance will exactly match the artist-created blendshape animation. In addition we propose the concept of blendmaterials to give artists an intuitive means to account for changing material properties due to muscle activation. This system allows to automatically combine facial animation and head motion such that they are consistent, while preserving the original animation as closely as possible. The system is easy to use and readily integrates with existing animation pipelines.en_US
dc.description.number2
dc.description.sectionheadersRigging, Tearing, and Faces
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume36
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13108
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages075-084
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13108
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13108
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.5 [Computer Graphics]
dc.subjectComputational Geometry and Object Modeling
dc.subjectPhysically Based Modeling
dc.titleEnriching Facial Blendshape Rigs with Physical Simulationen_US
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