Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right

Stop Staring in Color

This selection of images—some of characters built and discussed in this book and some from other sources—demonstrates the incredible influence color and lighting can have in really "popping" an expression. It's the same with human or animal, photostyle or toon—animated characters can look perfectly believable if you build the right shapes, create the right textures and move them in a way appropriate to their own style.

Basic Head

These images show the range of the basic head model developed throughout the book in a way that would ...