blendshape
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A face rig allowing an animator to generate new facial expressions by combining or blending a set of predefined expressions (known as the targets).
Example Sentences
- "If you don't have the blendshapes your character needs then your character cannot act except with body language."
- "Similarly, avatar facial animation through vision-based methods has been explored following a similar approach in which facial features on the user's face are tracked via a Kinect [15] or single image acquisition methods [3, 4, 10] to generate animation via detailed face rigs or pre-defined blendshapes."
- "Second, and more widely used for real-time purposes, facial blendshapes (predefined morph targets) can be defined as morph properties of the avatar's face and deformed according to tracking software inputs [Orvalho et al., 2012]."