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RESEARCH.







SOFTWARE BASED SOLUTIONS.

                At the moment there are few software based facial animation systems which are radically different from a key-frame approach.  They either use existing motion-capture hardware, or are just more intuitive user interfaces for key-framing.  I will be looking at the benefits of three systems in particular.  I have focused my attention at key-frame based systems rather than procedural.  Reasons being in that to include procedural based systems would be beyond the scope of this report.
 

  1.                     FAMOUS tm - Facial Animation Solution. ( Based on motion-capture data.)
  2.                     REALISTIC FACIAL ANIMATION - (A system being developed by  Ph .D students at Washington, using morphing techniques.)
  3.                     KEYFRAME APPROACH - (A look at facial animation techniques available in Alias Wavefront's MAYA 1.0)
                    For more information about each of these products directly, head for the links page.