LogInHigh-quality 3D faces could be easier to make with more data.
3D Scan Store, a digital library of 3D-scanned character assets, shared a glimpse of a could-be character generator made with Wrap3, a topology transfer tool that helps create digital characters based on 3D scans.
Wrap makes it possible to take an existing basemesh and non-rigidly fit it to every scan. It provides a set of scan processing tools like decimation, mesh filtering, texture projection and many more. Thanks to node-graph architecture once you’ve processed a scan, you can apply the same recipe to an unlimited number of other scans.
Wrap lets you convert 3D scans of facial expressions into a consistent topology and is suitable for converting full-body scans into a common topology for further rigging, animation, and cloth simulation.
Image credit: 3D Scan Store
Image credit: 3D Scan Store
The demo shows how easy it would be to make high-quality faces if the generator was completed. Unfortunately, it needs much more data than 3D Scan Store has to create diverse heads.
"It would need to be around 500 X the size minimum for a properly trained AI also with a huge range of diversity. It’s much easier just to do it with a morphable controllable system like this. But still needs a huge amount of data to do it properly," said the creator.
As the artist known as cloverme mentioned, this would look great in Reallusion's Character Creator or Unity.
While we're waiting for popular DCC software to adopt the generator, you can get fantastic head models and MetaHumans from 3D Scan Store.
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