The changes between Faceware Studio and the old platform are most apparent during the tuning process, which enables users to modulate the animation data the software outputs.Īlthough Faceware Live enabled users to damp down or exaggerate individual facial movements, like mouth shapes or eyebrow raises, the interface for doing so was parameter-based and looked like a spreadsheet.
New Motion Effects provide advanced control over streamed animation Seen along the top of the screen in the image above, it divides the performance capture process into five stages: video input, facial tracking, performance tuning, motion effects, and streamed output. The most visible evidence of that new approach is Faceware Studio’s UI, which provides much more visual feedback on the capture process, and more advanced options for tuning output.Īs well as featuring its own integrated 3D viewport – in Faceware Live, the 3D preview was a floating window – the UI adds Pathfinder, a “unique workflow guide and status bar combo”. However, Faceware describes it as “a complete re-engineering” of the platform rather than just a rebrand, “ the real-time streaming workflow with a modern and intuitive approach”.Ī more intuitive, visual way to adjust facial performances The new platform does pretty much the same thing as its predecessor: process footage of a single actor’s face in real time, and stream the resulting data to a CG character in MotionBuilder, Unity or Unreal Engine. Solve an actor’s facial movements in real time and stream the data to MotionBuilder or game enginesįaceware Studio is the first major change to the firm’s real-time product line in three years: the last update to Faceware Live, Faceware Live 2.5, shipped in 2017.
Studio also rethinks the application’s UI, integrates the AI-based jaw solving system from sister application Faceware Retargeter, and improves performance, particularly on lower-end systems. Markerless motion-capture specialist Faceware Technologies has launched Faceware Studio, a next-gen replacement for its Faceware Live real-time facial mocap system for live broadcast, games and VFX work.ĭescribed as “a complete re-engineering” of the platform, Studio incorporates interesting new ‘Motion Effects’ for tuning the data it outputs to individual CG characters.
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