About this Event
Understanding the FACS!
Appealing to anyone working in animation, games design and development, immersive, virtual production or visual effects this 90-minute event to include an illustrated talk and Q&A is brought to you by the Ulster Screen Academy, in partnership and funded by Northern Ireland Screen.
Please join us on Wednesday the 7th of June at 7Pm at our new Ulster University Campus in York Street, Belfast for this special one-off occasion to meet world renowned expert Dr Erika Rosenberg in person in Belfast. Dr Rosenberg will burst open incredible techniques for creating moving faces in the digital domain with emotion. Her work on FAC systems has appeared in some of the most successful digital entertainments projects in the world, across games and the visual effects industry. Dr Rosenberg will offer a brief history, overview, and demonstration of the Facial Action Coding System on the night.
*Please note this event is free thanks to support from Northern Ireland Screen.
Dr. Rosenberg will share her experience on how FACS research is used to convey feeling in animated faces and offer a FACS-based critique of current “state-of-the-art” tools for the creation of digital human faces.
This incredible in-person 90-minute session will include a 1-hour presentation and demonstration, with ample time for discussion and questions followed by a chance to network.
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This master class is part of a new series of Virtual Production and Real-time training masterclasses and courses coming this summer in support of the screen industries in Northern Ireland. Delivered through a partnership with Northern Ireland Screen and The Ulster Screen Academy.
Bio for Erika Rosenberg, PhD
Dr Rosenberg is an affective scientist and world-renowned expert on facial expression measurement using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). The principle FACS protégé of its creator Paul Ekman, Dr. Rosenberg began working with FACS in his laboratory at University of California, San Francisco, in 1988. Dr. Rosenberg has been studying facial expression, training others in FACS, and consulting on applications of FACS for over 30 years. Her clients span many disciplines worldwide, including in academia, medicine, business, law enforcement, entertainment, and the digital arts.
As Chief Scientific Officer at Humain Studios, Dr. Rosenberg posed for and verified the entire set of FACS AU and AU combinations in scans for their rig. She continues to oversee FACS related elements of the virtual human faces for characters they develop.
As a FACS educator, Dr. Rosenberg developed the FACS Workshop in 2004 and launched its online version in 2021. She has trained hundreds of people around the world to FACS code. Currently, Dr. Rosenberg is revising and extensively updating the FACS Manual, the definitive instructional and user’s manual of FACS. Her edited volume with Paul Ekman, What the Face Reveals, is now in its 3rd edition with Oxford University Press. Dr. Rosenberg’s peer-reviewed, published research using FACS varies from basic psychological research on emotional process, social psychological research on facial expression recognition, study of the effects of meditation on emotional behaviour, and health psychological studies on heart disease.
June 7th, 7pm York Street Belfast.
An Ulster Screen Academy event in partnership with and funded by Northern Ireland Screen.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ulster University, York Street, Belfast, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00