Realtime, on the fly, markerless facial motion capture animation demonstration feature on SIGGRAPH 2013 Paper Video. This is brilliant!
MoCap
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
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 π
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 π
Anyways … a little bit of research work that I did during my weekend! Hope you guys like it π
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 : https://puppeteerlounge.com/
Really interesting read blogged by Jonas : http://www.jonasavrin.com/2011/08/16/indie-facial-performance-capture-rd/