Abstract
We present a novel approach for generating 2D line drawing facial animations. Given a video sequence of facial animation, our method retargets the facial animation to non-photorealistic line drawing facial models automatically. This process provides a new alternative for creating facial animations in terms of line drawing graphics. The proposed retargeting procedure is composed of following components: (1) facial expression tracking and (2) facial animation rendering. Several experimental tests are given, they demonstrate that the proposed method has the following merits: (1) simple synthesis procedure; (2) high animation quality and low data size; (3) playable by popular web browsers; and (4) facial motion reusability.