Do you know Emily? You must have checked out her realistic motion
capture performance by Image Metrics! You can now download her facial rig and some other
awesome rigs from Faceware Facial Rig Library completely free. Go check it out 🙂
P.S. This is a great resource. Special thanks to Faceware Team for sharing it out!
Free Facial Rigging Webinar with Josh Burton by Faceware Technologies, Inc. Go ahead an register to learn rigging tips and tricks first-hand from the guy who rigged “Morpheus” 😉
Check out the demo video below by Faceware!
Recently Image Metrics hosted a facial sculpting and anatomy webinar with ZBrush Workshops founder, Ryan Kingslien. Ryan is one of the industry’s most sought after artists and it was a pleasure to hear his take on how to tackle learning facial anatomy. The video is hosted/presented by Ryan Kingslien and Jay Grenier. Check out the video below.
For those who missed IM’s amazing webinar video presentation or just want to recap the session, can visit Image Metrics vimeo page to get a sneak peek on all videos. You can also check out there state of the art facial rigging videos and other cool stuffs which includes tips and tricks as well.
Click Here for the video links 🙂
Ok here comes the 2nd part of the facial rigging webinar session conducted by Image Metrics. Joining Jay for part 2 of the facial rigging webinar will be Vladimir Mastilovic, Image Metrics’ lead rigger and one of the most experienced facial riggers in the industry. Vlad and Jay will be discussing the different types of facial rigs IM has used over the years, both from a technical stand point as well as the methodologies behind their creation.They ‘ll also be taking an inside look at the facial rigs used in Crytek’s Crysis 2, built by Image Metrics.
Looking forward to joining the webinar on 26th April @ 2:45 AM Nepal Time 😉
Here are the links on more info if you wish to join this wonderful webinars …
Click here for IM Forum
Click here for Registration
Image-Metrics, worlds leading solution for facial animation in games, movies and commercial is conducting wonderful webinar session running from 4th of April. Jay, a very good friend of mine and rigger (technical artist) working at Image-Metrics is conducting this webinar.
I got an opportunity to grab a sit for this one of a kind webinar session fully dedicated towards facial rigging and facial animation using Image-Metrics proprietary software “Faceware”. Faceware is an Über cool, state of the art technology for facial animation, and I think it is one of the best out there. Anyways, the webinar session is really informative and attendees can raise there hands for any questions, tips and suggestions. I am really looking forward for the next session which will deal with actual facial performance capture 🙂
Oh yes, for the link to the webinar session … Click Here!
Also, peoples at Image-Metrics are very willing to share and see people benefiting from the rising CG community. Therefore, anyone interested can get there hands on their state of the art facial rigs and builds, which includes a collection of hybrid rigs for games and films!
So, what are you waiting for, get yourself a free rig from this link … Click Here!
Finally, I want to thank the peoples and fellow friends at Image-Metrics for this one of kind meeting round up session. I hope that more peoples and studios out there learn from this and organize similar session for people like us and the community. I wish Image-Metrics and staffs working there a very warm best wishes and a big THANK YOU 🙂
Links:
Jay Greiner
Jonas Avrin
Image-Metrics