LogInFaceware Technologies announced the release of Faceware Studio, a new platform designed for creating high-quality facial animation in realtime.
Faceware Studio is was built as a complete replacement for the former LIVE product promising a modern and intuitive approach to creating instant facial animation. The toolkit allows to track and animate anyone’s face in realtime by using machine learning and the latest neural network techniques. The data can then be streamed to Faceware-supported plugins in Unreal Engine, Unity, and MotionBuilder (Maya version in development), for live streaming or recording in-engine on an avatar.
“This is more than just a rebranding of our LIVE product – Faceware Studio is a complete re-engineering of our real-time platform,” said Peter Busch, vice president of business development at Faceware Technologies. “Based on what we’ve learned from the market over the past few years about how people create and work with realtime facial animation, we re-thought the entire product from the ground up to make it easier to use, more intuitive, and to produce higher quality animation. The initial response during the beta was extremely positive, and we’re excited to be releasing it for all of our users.”
New Features:
- Enhanced Facial Tracking Technology. Underlying tracking technology uses the latest machine learning techniques to improve the quality and robustness of tracking and animation.
- Realtime Jaw Positioning using Deep Learning. Improved jaw positioning tech is now available in Studio providing the ability to create fast and accurate lip-sync animation in realtime.
- Motion Effects & Animation Tuning. The toolkit allows users to visualize and adjust actor-specific profiles with Animation Tuning and build powerful logic into the realtime data stream using Motion Effects.
- Realtime Animation Viewport and Media Timeline. You can see you facial animation from any angle with Studio’s fully-featured 3D animation viewport and use the Timeline and media controls.
- Dockable, Customizable Interface. Studio provides a modern and customizable user interface with docking panels and saveable workspaces for a completely personalized setup.
- Improved CPU/GPU Performance. Studio is said to be greatly optimized to create better and faster results while using less resources than its predecessor.
You can learn more about the new toolkit here.