Interactive editing of performance-based facial animation

Abstract

While performance-based facial animation efficiently produces realistic animation, it still needs additional editing after automatic solving and retargeting. We review why additional editing is required and present a set of interactive editing solutions for VFX studios. The presented solutions allow artists to enhance the result of the automatic solve-retarget with a few tweaks. The methods are integrated into our performance-based facial animation framework and have been actively used in high-quality movie production.