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Face Robot - Recommended Reading

Here are some links to useful research material for doing facial animation.

• Phoneme Examples - Images of phoneme mouth positions (known as visemes in Face Robot) (http://www.garycmartin.com/phoneme_examples.html)
• ARTNATOMY - An application for learning facial expressions - fun! (http://www.artnatomia.net)

Face Robot users have also found the following books useful:

Table of contents

1 Facial Expressions, by Gary Faigin 2 Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference For Artists, by Mark Simon 3 Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right, by Jason Osipa 4 Unmasking the Face, by Ekman & Friesen 5 Drawing the Human Head, by Burne Hogarth

Facial Expressions, by Gary Faigin

• ISBN: 0823016285
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications (November 1, 1990)
• Hardcover

Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference For Artists, by Mark Simon

• ISBN: 0823016714
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications (June 20, 2005)
• Paperback: 256 pages

Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right, by Jason Osipa

Probably one of the best selling facial animation books. Covers basic facial modeling and animation techniques which are useful although the book's examples are based on shape animation.

• ISBN: 0782141293
• Publisher: Sybex (August 1, 2003)
• Paperback: 352 pages

Unmasking the Face, by Ekman & Friesen

Explores the basic human emotions, how they are reflected in the face, how different emotions are layered, how emotions can be modified or masked. Includes a useful library of partial and composite facial expressions.

• ISBN: 1883536367
• Publisher: Malor Books (September, 2003)
• Paperback: 212 pages

Drawing the Human Head, by Burne Hogarth

• ISBN: 0823013766
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications; Reprint edition (March 1, 1989)