Combination of Facial Expressions and Visual Effects for Designing Character's Emotional Expressions

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a simulation system for character emotion expression including visual effects. We extracted visual effects which are used for character's emotional expression from existing animation works and classify them into facial effects and screen effects. Our system generates typical example of emotional expression from combinations of facial parts, facial effects and screen effects. User experiments show that the user can design desired expression by referring to the simulation results.