Faceware Studio
Realtime facial animation software
What is Faceware Studio?
Faceware Studio is a new platform for creating high-quality facial animations.
We've re-imagined our software and workflow to deliver an intuitive and productive experience. Studio uses real-time technology to track everyone's face and create facial animations on the fly.
Key Features of Faceware Studio
Track all faces
Studio tracks and animates all facial performance with one-click calibration. Our neural network technology easily recognizes your face from a live camera or pre-recorded media. Interactive events, virtual productions and large-scale content creation are all possible at Studio.
Advanced Tuning
Studio tracks and animates all facial performance with one-click calibration. Our neural network technology easily recognizes your face from a live camera or pre-recorded media. Interactive events, virtual productions and large-scale content creation are all possible at Studio.
motion effect
Motion Effects is a powerful system for building additional logic into real-time data streams. Effects are used to manipulate the data to do exactly what you want, giving you unparalleled direct control over the final animation.
Advanced Tuning
All character rigs are freely movable in Studio. Studio's standard set of controls can be mapped to custom avatars, making it easy to stream facial animation data to Faceware-enabled plugins from Unreal Engine, Unity, Motionbuilder and soon Maya.
Working with Faceware Studio
real-time setting
Use the real-time settings panel to select the camera, image sequence, or pre-recorded video you want to track. Then, use the controls on the panel to adjust various options such as frame rate, resolution, and rotation. Depending on your input, choose a fixed or professional headcam model. The Pathfinder feature tells you if your real-time settings are optimal.
animation adjustment
The Animation Adjustments panel contains a list of each shape and its values when tracking a face. An animated color bar provides instant feedback on each shape. Click and drag the slider to increase or decrease the impact of each shape. Enhance your data using included effects in the Motion Effects panel, or create custom effects on a control-by-control basis using Python.
Calibration and tracking
Once real-time setup is complete, the Tracking Viewport will begin displaying your media. To calibrate the tracking, the actor must be properly framed, focused, and in a neutral pose. If using pre-recorded media, use the media playback controls to find the ideal neutral pose. Then start tracking using the Neutral Pose Compensation button.
Stream to Engine
The Streaming panel provides numerous options to enable and customize your data streams. To stream animation data from Faceware Studio, configure the Faceware Support plugin in the engine, then click 'Stream to Client' to see the character's animation.
Create with Unreal Engine.
Unreal Engine is the world's most open and advanced real-time 3D authoring tool. It is constantly evolving to fulfill its original purpose of being a state-of-the-art game engine, giving creators across industries today the freedom and control to deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.
Faceware Studio is Live ClientConnect to the Unreal Engine via the plugin (developed by Glassbox). Unreal is an ideal choice for tasks such as virtual productions, pre-visualizations and projects that require high-quality character rendering, and provides an intuitive toolset for connecting Studio's animation data to characters.
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unity
Unity is the world's leading real-time 3D development platform, giving you the tools to create amazing games and publish them to the widest range of devices. With the Unity core platform
Entire creative teams can be more productive together.
Faceware Studio connects to Unity through a free plugin called Live Client for Unity that makes it easy to map and record animation data from Studio to characters in the engine.
Unity Asset StoreVisit cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Unity dragon free live clientDownload the plugin.
Autodesk MotionBuilder
3D Character Animation Software
Capture, edit and play complex character animations with MotionBuilder® 3D character animation software. Work in an interactive environment optimized for both animators and directors. Create realistic movements for your characters with one of the fastest animation tools in the industry.
Faceware Studio connects to MotionBuilder through a free plug-in called Live Client for MotionBuilder, available free of charge through the Faceware User Portal. MotionBuilder is a general and ideal choice for existing motion capture pipelines where you want to record facial animation data streamed from Studio.
Visit the Faceware User Portal to download the free live client for MotionBuilder.
Faceware Studio integrates with all the tools you know and love.
