Creating and Blending Synthetic Facial Expressions of Emotion
We introduce a physically-based facial animation system for natural-looking emotional expressions. Our system enables creation of simple facial expressions using Facial Action Coding System (FACS) and complex facial expressions by blending existing expressions. We propose a method for blending facial actions, based on a parameterization that combines elements of FACS and MPEG-4 standard. We explore the complex expression space by examining the blends of basic emotions produced with our model.