Digital Concepts Group launches Facepro
Written by Tombalina
Digital Concepts Group announced the launch of FacePro, a toolset developed to guide users through every step of cleaning and retargeting facial animation. FacePro is a cost-effective solution to help bring quality facial motion capture to the next generation of game, film, television and advertising media.
FacePro, the first commercial plugin for the VICON Blade software platform, combines both native and custom tools into a smart and intuitive pipeline that provides users with the ability to quickly and easily refine facial motion capture data.
The FacePro Feature Set includes:
- Rule-Based Stabilization: No part of the human face is truly stable. Skin moves with muscle, slides across bone and stretches and wrinkles. FacePro stabilization is based on user-defined rules that compensate for these factors to solve the underlying motion.
- Easy Retargeting: Whether working on individual or multiple characters, the retargeting setup is quick and simple for new users, while still allowing advanced users the freedom to tweak and control more complicated setups.
- Automated Gap Filling: FacePro uses learned facial motion and available data to calculate gaps based on the best choices, not guesses.
SkinFlex: The key to facial motion lies in how the skin rolls as it stretches and moves, but this is not inherently captured in traditional motion capture data. SkinFlex restores this by procedurally calculating the rotations of facial markers to bring another level of life to every lip curl and purse.- Smart Filtering: Smart Filter dynamically analyzes motion to create custom settings to perfectly filter every frame.
- Pipeline Management: Studios, clients and projects are rarely ever the same. FacePro is designed to work with data from both VICON and Motion Analysis systems, any marker-set and most character rigs. FacePro is easy to set up (new projects within just a few hours) while still meeting the diverse set of needs from all parties involved.
"FacePro is designed to create more flexibility in a variety of situations with varying levels of customization. Novice users and mo-cap veterans alike will now have the ability to derive more lifelike animated facial performances than ever before with this set of tools," added Steven Ilous, co-president, Digital Concepts Group
