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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2009
Michael Koperwas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Frederic P. Pighin, Sausalito, CA (US);
Cary Phillips, Moss Beach, CA (US);
Steve Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eduardo Hueso, Plantation, FL (US);
Michael Koperwas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Frederic P. Pighin, Sausalito, CA (US);
Cary Phillips, Moss Beach, CA (US);
Steve Sullivan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eduardo Hueso, Plantation, FL (US);
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a computer system capable of representing one or more animated characters. The computer system includes a blendshape manager that combines multiple blendshapes to produce the animated character. The computer system also includes an expression manager to respectively adjust one or more control parameters associated with each of the plurality of blendshapes for adjusting an expression of the animated character. The computer system also includes a corrective element manager that applies one or more corrective elements to the combined blendshapes based upon at least one of the control parameters. The one or more applied corrective elements are adjustable based upon one or more of the control parameters absent the introduction of one or more additional control parameters.