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facial tracking

Check out the changes to tracking plugins FaceTracker and GeoTracker, including new wireframe rendering and start frame selection options.

Friday, February 14th, 2025

Much-anticipated facial mocap plugin for Blender gets its official release. Now supports animation retargeting to Rigify rigs.

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

Check out Reblika's promising all-in-one standalone app for creating ultra-detailed 3D characters for games and animation.

Friday, August 30th, 2024

Intuitive add-on can generate an animated 3D reconstruction of an actor's head from video footage, for animation. VFX or motion graphics.

Thursday, August 22nd, 2024

Big update to the browser-based AI mocap system makes it possible to capture up to eight characters from a single video.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

Check out the new features in the popular plugin for generating 3D heads from source photographs.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

Real-time character animation tool gets AccuLips automated lip-sync system, new 'Expression Plus' set of scan-based facial blend shapes.

Thursday, March 25th, 2021

Neat $995 inertial mocap gloves can be used to stream hand and finger tracking data live to apps like Maya, Blender, Unity and UE4.

Thursday, September 17th, 2020

Neat add-on for creating 3D head models from images now works with photos from multiple cameras.

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020

Impressive free app streams facial animation from an iPhone to a 3D character in the game engine.

Thursday, July 9th, 2020

Real-time 2D animation app wins Technology & Engineering award for innovations affecting television.

Thursday, January 16th, 2020

Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2019

Real-time markerless facial mocap system gets new tools for fine-tuning animations, built-in preview characters.

Friday, May 26th, 2017