[4eyes] Guest Speaker from Weta Digital this Wednesday

[Theodore Kim]

Hello everybody,

We have a guest speaker for the joint 4eyes/Mirage summer meeting this
Wednesday. Jaewoo Seo from Weta Digital will be coming to give a talk on
facial animation at 11 in HFH 1132.

Hope to see you there!
Ted

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Jaewoo Seo, Weta Digital
Wednesday, August 20, at 11 AM
HFH 1132

Title:
Developing Interactive Facial Rigs in a Production Environment

Abstract:
Maya offers excellent functional flexibility but often suffers from
sub-optimal performance scalability as a counterpart. This becomes
problematic in large productions, where tens of artists work together on a
single scene. One scene file can easily contain tens of thousands of nodes.
Here we share our experience of improving the performance of highly complex
facial rigs in Maya.

Bio:
Jaewoo Seo is a computer graphics researcher. His research interests
include motion capture and animation techniques of faces and bodies. He has
presented a number of research papers in international journals and
conferences such as Siggraph or Siggraph Asia. At Weta Digital, he has been
working on several R&D projects in facial animation and body motion capture
for last two years. Before coming to New Zealand, he was a researcher at
OLM Digital, Inc., one of the leading animation and visual effects
companies in Japan. He received his PhD (2012) and MS (2007) degrees in
Culture Technology from KAIST, Korea and Bachelor degrees in Digital Media
and Computer Science (both in 2005) from Ajou University, Korea.
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