Synthetic Actors

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. How to Make a Film with Synthetic Actors

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 1-8

3. Three-Dimensional Construction of Synthetic Actors

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 9-24

4. Human Prototyping

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 25-29

5. Body Animation of Synthetic Actors

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 31-43

6. Hand Animation, Object Grasping, and Foot Animation

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 45-54

7. Facial Animation of Synthetic Actors

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 55-69

8. Color, Reflectance, Transparency, and Texture

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 71-77

9. Cameras, Lights, and Shadows

   • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

   Pages 79-85

10. Choreography

    • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

    Pages 87-97

11. Appendix: The HUMAN FACTORY Software

    • Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Daniel Thalmann

    Pages 99-122

12. Back Matter

    Pages 123-129

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This book presents the making of computer-generated films using three-dimensional synthetic actors. It is based mainly on the production of the film Rendez-vous a Montreal, an animated film that uses advanced computer techniques to achieve such effects as reincarnating film stars Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. The main purpose of Rendez-vous a Montreal is to show that true synthetic actors can be created. This fllm represents a technological breakthrough which opens up new vistas in motion pictures, television, and advertising. With this technique, it will now be possible to produce short fllms or motion pictures featuring any celebrity in any situation. The book explains in detail how such a film can be produced using numerous drawings and color pictures. In particular, the following topics are presented: - Preparation of object construction: documentation search, and plaster models preparation - Object construction: digitizing and modeling - Body animation - Hand animation and object grasping - Facial animation: expressions, phonemes and emotions - Choreography: decors, actors, cameras, and lights - Realism: colors, lights, shading, shadows, and textures - Image recording: special effects Finally, an extensive appendix describes in detail the HUMAN FACTORY system.

• 3D
• Bildaufzeichnung
• Computer-Animation
• Filmsynthese
• Körperbewegung
• Modellieren
• Textur
• animation
• computer animation
• modeling
• shading
• user interface

• MIRALab, CUI, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

  Nadia Magnenat Thalmann

• Computer Graphics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Daniel Thalmann

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