MocapX

This looks really promising! Currently out for folks with iPhone only, the app is available for purchase from iOS store. A free trial version would have been better for testing purpose. Check it out here.

Project Ryan by Agora Image

Project Ryan by Agora Image. I would like to congratulation one of my talented student Mohamed Dorgam and his team at Agora Image, Egypt for this achievement! CGI breakdown and making here.

Next-Gen Digital Human Performance by Andy Serkis

It's what they are calling volumetric capture, reconstruction and compression technology... in-other words a fancy term for state of the art facial 3D scan and motion capture integration algorithm. Digital humans have now crossed the uncanny valley and future looks promising with all the new hardware and tool-set. Lot of the credit goes to developers and artist behind the scene! Learn more here.

Vicon Siren first look at GDC 2018.

Dynamixyz Facial Motion Capture Training Workshop

Dynamixyz Facial Motion Capture from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.



Check out our latest facial motion capture performance animation using Dynamixyz toolset. Dynamixyz’s Performer Solution is an award-winning video-based markerless facial capture and analysis solution for films and games. Now you can learn to create High-End Facial Animations on your Own with Dynamixyz software at Puppeteer Lounge. Check out our mini workshops for more detail!

Kudos to Dynamixyz team! :)

iPhone X Realtime 3D Character Animation by Jimmy Gunawan

DEMO / Using iPhone X to stream real time facial animation data into Blender from Jimmy Gunawan on Vimeo.

Good experimentation by Puppeteer Lounge alumnus Jimmy Gunawan with real-time facial motion capture using iPhoneX. We are looking forward to collaborate with him on creation a training workshop to go over these setup! :)

The Art of VR - Sotheby’s Exhibit by MacInnes Scott

Real-time facial motion capture and rendering technology interpolating visitor's facial expression to animate photo-real digital avatars of President Obama and Trump.

Facial Motion Capture Setup Demo by Veronica Morera

Facial Motion Capture Setup Demo by student Veronica Morera from Puppeteer Lounge on Vimeo.

Facial motion capture setup demo by student Veronica Morera. Beautifully done! Watch Facial MoCap on a realistic rig at 1 min mark on video below.

Homemade Face MoCap Veronica Morera

Homemade Face MoCap Veronica Morera from Vero Morera on Vimeo.

Check out the facial motion capture experiment done by Puppeteer Lounge student Vero Morera. Well done :)

FaceRig Unveiling Video - English

This looks very promising. Check it out and share it around!

Facial Puppetry

Brilliant facial tracking techniques. The project aims at developing methods that enable natural communication over a distance without revealing one’s identity!

Realtime Facial Animation With On-the-fly Correctives

Realtime, on the fly, markerless facial motion capture animation demonstration feature on SIGGRAPH 2013 Paper Video. This is brilliant!

lips motion capture

Nice motion capture for lip.

Making of - Gollum - The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey by Weta Digital

Check out the making of Gollum. Very impressive!
See the deformation on the character. There must be tons of corrective shapes driving the realistic expression of the character.

Ismail FIDAN - Face Rig & Facial Motion Capture

Facial mo-cap setup done by Ismail Fidan using bone based facial rig.

Facial Rig Mocap RD ~ Softimage

Facial motion capture done by re-targeting motion performance data into a facerobot rig.

IMITATOR ~ MocapLab

"Only mocap processing, no post-animation and a good performer". Really good performance video by MocapLab!

Feel free to check out there other videos as well.

Markerless Facial Motion Capture

Check out this video of Markerless Facial Motion Capture by Motek Entertainment. The technology seen here is similar to what I have seen from Image Metrics re-targeting demos. Pretty cool stuff though.

Facial Animation Test by Janimation

Facial mocap animation and rig test done by Janimation!

Facial Motion Capture R&D

Hi there everyone! It's been a little while since I blogged something about myself ;)

Here is a little R&D video of facial MoCap animation. I really wanted to do a MoCap animation for a long time, specially from the moment I watched "The Rise of the Planet of the Apes" movie in the theatre (was an awesome movie). The MoCap animation demonstrated in this video is optics based. I used my mobile phones video camera to record the facial expression footage. Facial markers or stickers used for tracking process were glued to my "skinny" face :D



Anyways ... a little bit of research work that I did during my weekend! Hope you guys like it :)

P.S. The idea, tips and techniques applied in this video is a part of my online rigging workshop for Motion Capture Facial Setup!

More Info : http://puppeteerlounge.com/

Really interesting read blogged by Jonas : http://www.jonasavrin.com/2011/08/16/indie-facial-performance-capture-rd/