Fanky: A Tool for Animating Faces of 3D Agents

  • Authors:
  • Aldo Paradiso;Fabio Zambetta;Fabio Abbattista

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IVA '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We propose the Fanky system, a facial animation tool applied to faces of 3D agents. The tool is based on an object-oriented architecture, where the face is subdivided into a set of regions called Standard Anatomical Components, each provided with its own deformation and animation parameters. The deformation algorithm of Fanky is mainly founded on a FFD based technique for the facial deformation of the character. We adopt the MPEG-4' Facial Animation Parameters as a description format for facial expressions and animations.