Facial Animation

The main parts of the program are a camera class, a model class, and the main controller code. The model was made using FaceGen. I altered the model file in order to create vertex groups for animation. The model class has a boolean map for each part of the face that is animated. The eyes are each made of three spheres, one for each color, and rotate along the X and Y axis. The eye brows are animated using a bezier curve for each brow. The lips are another pair of bezier curves, one for the upper lip and one for the lower one. The jaw is a hinge joint. Some jaw movements can affect the bezier curves of the lips. While I didn't have time to add any speech animations, there are a few lip and jaw animations that appear to be speech motions.

User Guide

• To run, the model files need to be in the same folder as the executable.
• The eye brows are controlled by right clicking and dragging vertically while holding the necessary keys.
• i/o chooses an inner or outer raise/lower
• k/l chooses the left or right brow
• unless your computer supports key rollover of three or more, you have to move the brows separately
• The eyes are controlled by left clicking and dragging while holding 'e'
• The mouth can be moved with a couple of different methods.
• left clicking and dragging vertically while holding 'm' will open the mouth and the jaw
• doing the same while holding 'n' will only move the jaw
• u/j will open the mouth without moving the jaw
• -/= will make the mouth smile/sadface
• q/w will make the mouth make a frown
• r will reset the model