So, what is the benefit of using these new plugins compared to normal facial animation? Well, previously, any facial animation required a traditional blend of lip-sync, puppeteering, and face key editing. Characters and animation made in iClone are already exportable as FBX files to game engines or 3d applications like Unreal Engine, Unity, Maya, and 3ds Max. Reallusion revised iClone’s 3d character faces to 60 morph shapes – there had previously been 30 – to make the characters ‘Faceware-ready.’ The resulting animation can be motion edited and intensity adjusted through slider bars. This capture can then drive an animated character or avatar, in real-time if necessary. It then tracks and captures key facial features as you perform voice tracks and head actions. Users sit through a short calibration process designed to teach Faceware what your face looks like in a neutral pose. Finally, while you can smooth the data in realtime from the start, you can also cleanup existing recorded clips using proven smoothing methods which can be applied at the push of a button.Faceware’s partnership with Reallusion involves plugins for iClone that enable markerless capture using a single PC camera or Faceware’s proprietary head cameras.
The biggest issue with all live mocap is that it's noisy, twitchy and difficult to work with, so smoothing the live data in realtime is a big necessity because if the mocap data isn't right, or the the model's expressions aren't what you want, and the current mocap recording isn't quite accurate then you need to have access to the backend tools to adjust all of this.
Starting from all new ARKit expressions, to easily adjusting raw mocap data as well as retargeting, to multipass facial recording and essential mocap cleanup - we're covering all the bases to provide you with the most powerful, flexible and user friendly facial mocap approach yet.
Designed by animators, for animators - Reallusion's latest facial mocap tools go further, addressing core issues in the facial mocap pipeline to produce better animation.
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