Osipa - Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Osipa, Jason.

Stop staring : facial modeling and animation done right / Jason Osipa. 3rd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-470-60990-3 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-470-93959-8 (ebk.)

ISBN 978-0-470-93961-1 (ebk.)

ISBN 978-0-470-93960-4 (ebk.)

1. Computer Animation. 2. Computer graphics. 3. Facial expression in art. I. Title.

TR897.7.O85 2010

006.696dc22

2010032277

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Acknowledgments

First and foremost, thank you to everyone at Wiley, who did most if not all of the work on this book.

Third edition: Mariann Barsolo, acquisitions editor; Kathryn Duggan, development editor; Christine OConnor, Liz Britten, and Angela Smith, production editors; Paul Thuriot, technical editor; Judy Flynn, copyeditor; Jen Larsen, proofreader; Ted Laux, indexer.

Second edition: Willem Knibbe, acquisition editor; Jim Compton, development editor; Keith Reicher, technical editor; Rachel Gunn, production editor; Judy Flynn, copyeditor; Chris Gillespie, compositor; Jen Larsen, proofreader.

First edition: Pete Gaughan, development editor; Dan Brodnitz, associate publisher; Mariann Barsolo, acquisitions editor; Liz Burke, production editor; Keith Reicher, technical editor; Suzanne Goraj, copyeditor; Maureen Forys, compositor; Margaret Rowlands, cover coordinator; the CD team of Kevin Ly and Dan Mummert.

For helping with the book and bringing to it so much more than I could alone, I thank Juan Carlos Larrea and Jason Hopkins, animation; Chris Robinson, character design; Kathryn Luster, contact and casting; Chris Buckley, Craig Adams, Joel Goodsell, and Robin Parks for voice work; Jeremy Hall for Joels recording.

Professionally, for supporting me and putting up with me, I thank Phil Mitchell, Owen Hurley, Jennifer Twiner-McCarron, Michael Ferraro, Ian Pearson, Chris Welman, Gavin Blair, Stephen Schick, Tim Belsher, Derek Waters, Sonja Struben, Glenn Griffiths, Chuck Johnson, Casey Kwan, Herrick Chiu, Chris Roff, and James E. Taylor. Thanks to all the good people at Surreal Software and everyone at Maxis/EA; the Sims EP team, the Sims 2 team, the Sims next gen team. Thanks to Glenn, Brian W., Paul L, Kevin, Clint, Ryo, Toru, Hakan, Frank, and Rudy; to Jesse, Lisha, and of course, the lovely miss Tee; to fight club, my robots; to Andy, Sergey, Lucky, Yasushi, Daisuke, Paddy, and Brian Lee! To the best what-if team you could ever imagine: Paul, Brian, Jim, Matt A., Charles, Kelvin, Sean, Damon, Ian, Dale, Matthew, and Howard.

Mom, Dad, Veronica, Tom, Jorge, and all my great family in Winnipeg and Acapulco: I can never quite wait until the next time I get to see you; Im always thinking of you. Thanks to my California family: you guys have enriched my life more than I tell you; Nick, Ali, Rex, Nina and Nico, Nana, Papa, Brent, Trevor, Rick, Lori, Cathy, and Angela. Thanks to my wonderful friends Nate, Kayla, Jason, Penny, Aurora and Toby, Michelle, Brian, Kelly, Mark, Brooke, Bonnie, Mandy ( blame ), Paula, Saul, Courtney, Sarah, Pearce, Peyton, Pat, Eric, Tyler, Kavon, Laura, Tanya, John, Peter, Jacques, Karen, Dylan, Wayne, Shelly, Ella, Rob, Casey, Kaveh, Karly, Heather, Jess, Jacob, Adam, Mel, Katy, Jeannine, Rosanna, Jenny, Alison, Alan, Bill, Chris, Stephany, Jenny, Glenn, Galen, and anyone else I missed in our ever-expanding, and always awesome group.