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Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right -- Second Edition

Author: Jason Osipa

Breathe life into your creations

With detailed examples, high-quality professional images, and a touch of humor, this is the fully revised and updated second edition of Jason Osipa's best-selling book on facial animation. You'll learn the basics of design, modeling, rigging, and animation-while mastering exciting new techniques for stretch-and-squash deformation, advanced blend extraction, and the latest software tools. Walk through the author's detailed analysis of sample animations and discover how to add nuance and sophistication to your designs.

Full of insights drawn from years of professional experience, this book provides the focused and practical information you need to create believable facial animations.

• Learn visimes and lip sync techniques

• Construct a mouth and mouth keys

• Explore the process of facial landmarking

• Master the cartoon techniques of squash and stretch

• Harness the latest advanced blend extraction tools

• Create interfaces for your faces

• Understand skeletal setup, weighting, and rigging

Control faces with the book's powerful rig and learn how skin moves to make various shapes and expressions

Master powerful stretch-and-squash (and squoosh!) techniques

Featured on the CD
Fine-tune your facial animations with the techniques demonstrated on the companion CD. Content includes tutorial files, lip sync samples, models, textures, and more.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Introduction
Pt. I	Getting to Know the Face	1
Ch. 1	Learning the Basics of Lip Sync	3
Ch. 2	What the Eyes and Brows Tell Us	21
Ch. 3	Facial Landmarking	31
Pt. II	Animating and Modeling the Mouth	45
Ch. 4	Visimes and Lip Sync Technique	47
Ch. 5	Constructing a Mouth	75
Ch. 6	Mouth Keys	107
Pt. III	Animating and Modeling the Eyes and Brows	139
Ch. 7	Building Emotion: The Basics of the Eyes	141
Ch. 8	Constructing Eyes and Brows	169
Ch. 9	Eye and Brow Keys	193
Pt. IV	Bringing It Together	221
Ch. 10	Connecting the Features	223
Ch. 11	Skeletal Setup, Weighing, and Rigging	237
Ch. 12	Interfaces for Your Faces	259
Ch. 13	A Shot in Production	291
	Index	325

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Professional BizTalk Server 2006

Author: Darren Jefford

Professional BizTalk® Server 2006

This book provides insight into how industry experts have successfully architected, developed, and maintained Microsoft BizTalk Server in mission-critical environments. Authored by highly-regarded consultants with a wealth of knowledge on designing, building, and operating enterprise applications using BizTalk, this comprehensive guide gives you the techniques and best practices you'll need to develop effective projects.

Darren Jefford is a Principal Consultant with the Microsoft UK Application Development Consulting (ADC) team who has extensive real-world experience with BizTalk Server and the broader Microsoft platform. Kevin B. Smith formerly worked as a Technical Lead Software Design Engineer for the BizTalk Server Product Team and helped ship three versions of BizTalk Server. Ewan Fairweather works as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, providing onsite support to enterprise customers, including maintaining and optimizing their BizTalk Server solutions.

Achitects, developers, testers, and administrators will achieve instant success when they apply the deep technical information covered in this book. They will better appreciate the internal workings of BizTalk Server and will understand detailed solutions for challenges often experienced with BizTalk-based systems.

What you will learn from this book

• How the BizTalk Engine works and how to develop effective pipeline components
• How to develop BizTalk orchestrations that achieve maximum performance
• Methods for using Business Activity Monitoring within your solution for enterprise-wide instrumentation
• How to utilize the rules engine within your solutions to produce quality and reliability
• Techniques for conducting performance and scalability tests to identify bottlenecks
• Ways to minimize the latency of your solution to meet challenging low latency requirements
• How system administrators can proactively manage and maintain mission-critical BizTalk solutions
• Features for BizTalk Server 2006 R2, such as the BAM Interceptor for Windows® Workflow

Who this book is for: Architects, developers, testers, and administrators involved in the development of a BizTalk Server 2004 or 2006 solution.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.