The goal is to make it speak. Right now the mouth
movement is quite rigid... there's one parameter to
control the jaw rotation, and that's it. I'm planing
to add a sphincter muscle to control the lips, and a
new parameter for lower lip protrusion.

Thanks a lot for the good feedback!
Luciano.-


--- Bob Arning <arning at charm.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:12:56 -0800 Ned Konz
> <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> >> For those wondering, Avatar is a parmeterized 3D
> model of a face.
> >> You can tweak sliders to change it's expression,
> or select from
> >> a menu of predefined expressions such as
> "surprise" and "anger".
> >>
> >> No animation that I saw, but it would clearly be
> easy to in-between
> >> to morph from one expression to another.
> >
> >It would be entertaining to hook it up to the
> Speaker stuff so that the face 
> >would move while the voice was speaking.
> 
> It seems Luciano is already on the trail. He added
> this to the html page sometime after publishing the
> project:
> 
> "The idea here is to animate expressive 3D faces
> synchronized with either a
> speech synthesizer (such as KlattVoice) or with John
> Maloney's phoneme recognizer."
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 


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