Data-driven Facial Animation Using Sketch Interface

Creating stylistic facial animation is one of the most important problems in character animation. Traditionally facial animation is created manually by animators or captured using motion capture systems. But this process is very difficult and labor-intensive. In this work, we present an intuitive, easy-to-use, sketch-based user interface system that facilitates the process of creating facial animation and key-frame interpolation method using facial capture data. The user of our system is allowed to create expressive speech facial animation easily and rapidly. : , , , Keyword : facial animation, sketch interface, data-driven animation, animation