Taylor Pate
Art Creation
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Mapping a Non-Humanoid Head to a Human Face for Motion
Captured Facial Animation
My thesis project involved modeling the
I worked on this project over the course
Jackson: Sea of Monsters, a character
software for this project was a challenge,
head of the hippocampus from Percy
designed by Sebastian Meyer. I used
software from Dynamixyz, a company
from France, to map the model to my face
in order to move it.
My first directed focus study project was
creating a human facial rig, so I was really
excited to expand on that for my thesis.
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ART CREATION
of three mods. Learning a new suite of
as well as working with a studio that had
a seven-hour time zone difference from
me. I also learned a lot about constructing
models for animation and how to adapt
my workflow when things started to go a
bit off the rails.