Abstract
This paper covers methods used by Imageworks artist and technologists on The Polar Express (PEX) for the entire facial pipeline. It includes a wide range of information from the shoot through to the final facial animation seen on the screen.The main areas that will be covered:〈 Facial Performance Capture - Defines performance capture and gives technical details about the shooting of the movie.〈 Facial Tracking - Covers technical obstacles encountered with facial tracking and the solutions used to overcome these issues.〈 Facial Rigging - Outlines how the rigs were designed to accommodate the motion capture and animation.〈 Facial Integration - Covers the retargeting of the data to the character and other tools that were used to prepare the motion capture for the animation department.〈 Facial Animation - Covers the tools and techniques that the animation department used to enhance the data.
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