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" Synthetic Actors : "
by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann.
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BL
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753442
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b573403
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by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann.
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Synthetic Actors : : in Computer-Generated 3D Films\ by Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann.
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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1990
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Computer science workbench.
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(x, 129 pages) : illustrations
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3642754538
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: 3642754554
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: 9783642754531
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: 9783642754555
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1. How to Make a Film with Synthetic Actors --; 1.1 Computer Animation and Synthetic Actors --; 1.2 The Film Rendez-vous à Montréal --; 2. Three-Dimensional Construction of Synthetic Actors --; 2.1 Planning and Preparation of Models for 3D Reconstruction --; 2.2 How to Enter the Shapes --; 2.3 Photographs --; 2.4 Object Composition --; 3. Human Prototyping --; 3.1 Local Transformations of Existing Synthetic Actors --; 3.2 Shape Interpolation Between Human Faces --; 4. Body Animation of Synthetic Actors --; 4.1 Principles of Body Animation --; 4.2 Skeleton Definition and Positioning --; 4.3 Skeleton Animation --; 5. Hand Animation, Object Grasping, and Foot Animation --; 5.1 Hand Skeleton and Surface --; 5.2 Hand Animation --; 5.3 Object Grasping and Manipulating --; 5.4 Foot Animation --; 6. Facial Animation of Synthetic Actors --; 6.1 A Three-Level Approach to Facial Animation --; 6.2 The Facial Parameters --; 6.3 The Expressions: Phonemes and Emotions --; 6.4 The Script Level --; 6.5 A Script Example from the Film Rendez-vous à Montréal --; 6.6 Interpolating Facial Parameters and Expressions Between Two Different Human Faces --; 7. Color, Reflectance, Transparency, and Texture --; 7.1 Colors --; 7.2 Reflectance --; 7.3 Transparency and Textures --; 8. Cameras, Lights, and Shadows --; 8.1 Cameras --; 8.2 Lights --; 8.3 Shadows --; 9. Choreography --; 9.1 Decors and Actors --; 9.2 Cameras and Lights --; 9.3 Camera and Light Paths --; Appendix: The HUMAN FACTORY Software --; A. 1 The Architecture of the HUMAN FACTORY System --; A.2 The DIGIT3D Program --; A.3 The SABRINA System --; A.4 The BODYJPARTS System --; A.5 The BODY_MOVTNG System --; A.6 The FACE_MOVING System --; A.7 The M3RANIM System --; A.8 The DISPLAY Program.
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Three-dimensional synthetic reincarnations of Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart were created by the authors of this book for their award-winning feature film "Rendez-vous à Montréal". The advanced computer animation techniques developed for the film are fully described in this book. They form a technological breakthrough that can be used to produce scenes featuring any celebrity in any situation. This opens new vistas in motion pictures, television and advertizing. The book explains in detail with numerous drawings and color pictures how such films are produced. The following topics are presented: - Preparation of object construction: documentation search, plaster models preparation - Object construction, digitizing, modeling - Body animation: walk - Hand animation and object grasping - Facial animation: expressions, phonemes and emotions - Choreography: decors, actors, cameras, lights - Realism: colors, lights, shading, shadows, textures - Image recording: special effects.
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Computer graphics.
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Computer science.
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TR897.5B963 1990
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Daniel Thalmann
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Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
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