blendshape

noun

Etymology

From blend + shape.

  1. inherited from *skapjaną
  2. inherited from *skappjan
  3. inherited from scieppan
  4. inherited from shapen
  5. derived from *(s)kep-
  6. inherited from *ga-
  7. inherited from *ga-
  8. inherited from ġesceap
  9. inherited from shap
  10. compounded as blendshape — “blend + shape

Definitions

  1. A face rig allowing an animator to generate new facial expressions by combining or…

    A face rig allowing an animator to generate new facial expressions by combining or blending a set of predefined expressions (known as the targets).

    • If you don't have the blendshapes your character needs then your character cannot act except with body language.
    • 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].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blendshape. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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