MARS: A tool-based modeling, animation, and parallel rendering system

Modeling and Rendering for Realistic Facial Animation

Rendering realistic faces and facial expressions requires good models for the reflectance of skin and the motion of the face. We describe a system for modeling, animating, and rendering a face using measured data for geometry, motion, and reflectance, which realistically reproduces the appearance of a particular person’s face and facial expressions. Because we build a complete model that includ...

Animation / Rendering System Script Control System

pOSRT-A Parallel OffScreen Rendering Tool

When creating very high resolution OpenGL rendered graphics of relatively complex models e.g. for presentation purposes or poster printing one faces the limitations of current OpenGL implementations. pOSRT is an offscreen rendering tool to create images of arbitrary size by means of MESA’s offscreen rendering capabilities and a stripe based multithreaded SMP-rendering approach to speed up the

Modeling , Animation , and Rendering of Gases , Fluids , and Textures

This chapter describes modeling and animating procedural textures, gases, and liquids. The main thrust of the chapter is on procedurally modeling and animating volume density functions for creating realistic images and animations of gases and fluids. A volume density function is a three-dimensional function (vfd(x; y; z)) that defines the density of a continuous three-dimensional space. By usin...

MEDUSA — A Facial Modeling and Animation System

We present a system for photo-realistic facial modeling and animation, which includes several tools that facilitate necessary tasks such as mesh processing, texture registration, and assembling of facial components. The resulting head model reflects the anatomical structure of the human head including skull, skin, and muscles. Semi-automatic generation of high-quality models from scan data for ...