Virtual characters are a key element in human-computer interaction, as these enhance the communication process via facial expressions, gestures and body postures. The process of creating facial animations is a time-consuming and laborious task. In this paper we present our recent advances in our web-based tools to animate faces. Our tools try improve the control of the facial expression through simple interfaces. We demonstrate that real-time facial retargeting on the web is possible and we present a facial rig based on natural neighbor interpolation between predefined facial expressions.

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