Winner Announced: Win a Copy of “Stop Staring: Facial Modeling and Animation Done Right”!
“Lips, brows, frown lines–they’re all in motion in an expressive face. Stop Staring analyzes facial structures and movements and shows animators how to enliven the faces of their characters. The author, whose own head (in modeled form) graces the cover, is an experienced animator currently working on The Sims. ” (amazon.com).
“He writes with a dry wit and a confidence born from experience. The book is friendly but also loaded with content and precise in its directions. “I am by no means God’s gift to animation, but I do pretty well at making a talking head look like a living one, not just a set of gums flapping.” This is not a how-to manual, but a richly detailed guide to achieving the right movements for a given situation and emotion. The companion CD includes all the pieces readers will need in order to work along with the text: models (both realistic and stylized ’toon characters), lip-synching samples, finished Quicktime movies, and even a copy of Maya Personal LE. (More info and some movies can be found at jasonosipa.com.)”(amazon.com)
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Count me in! This book is a great reference for animators.
CG TUT’S very smart way to get comment’s..thanks in advance
While I may not be ready for facial modeling, its only a step or two away.
Hand is up here, trying to self teach myself facial animation is a SLOW process.. this book looks awesome
This Giveaway is amazing !
Good luck everyone. It will be a cool gift for x-mas :’)
im in!
I want it!
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ITSSS MIIIINNE!
hmmmmmmm i wonder why my comment was deleted i have the same rights on that book as anybody else or or well or not
I want that book!!!!
I want to model a face, this book is perfect, especially since I have always wanted to model a face but every time I try to my body freezes up or changes to something else happens.
I allways wanted to manipulate someones face
that’s wot i was looking for since ages !!
I would really love to get this book!
I want it!!
waooo!!! great men
Woohoo! Hope I get it!
I want one
…Looks like a great book 
PLEASE SEND IT MY WAY!
ryboyko@hotmail.com
hope I win!
Awesome Stuff. I would love a copy of it. Keep up the good work envato.
Awesone!
Want it!
good luck everyone!
Thanks!
This would be perfect for my 3d animation project.
MERCI ,pour la grande qualité des tutoriels de CG.Tuts+ et pour cette chance de gagner ce livre .
THANKS,for the great quality of CG.Tuts+ tutorials and for this chance winning this book.(aproximative translation…)
THIS WOULD BE AMAZING! Great contests so far!
go me!
Looks like a cool book. Hope i win this time
i just want to enliven my characters. i want them talk to me…..help me do that jasson
i was on a hunt …..and this was what i was searching for……
Gepetto got a magical log and made Pinocchio, the living puppet…….,
To give life to my animated puppets this is the only book i can think of……….
really graet book
It’s a really cool book , I hope win it ^^
finally i m going to get youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu book…………don’t try n hide..
I have been trying to win one of your animation books giveaway and always fail… so I’m trying this one again!
Here’s hoping to win at last!
Yeah…when the odds are between 100 and 300 to 1….it can be a little tough to win. The good news is that there’s one every week, so if you keep trying you’re sure to win eventually!
Looks interesting.
Looks pretty cool.
I’d be happy to win it!
This book looks very good !
Did somebody say I’m the winner !!!!
AHHH this would help with my studies soo much! please please please be me
Want it!
Mayby this time….;)
Great book!
Had one borrowed once – great tutorials, good examples, a must-have (wish I had one)!
Definitely awesome to get this one. Would be a nice Christmas present.
Hope I win!
Awesome
I want one copy please
Yeah nice stuff! hope to get one for under my tree
good luck @ all!
hi im from argentina… saludos desde aca!!! i want a book