(FTI), which spun off from Image Metrics in 2012, is dedicated to meeting the needs of professional animators in the video game, film, television, and commercial industries. Sherman Oaks, California-based Faceware Technologies Inc. For general product information, please visit the Faceware Live page. Several unannounced projects that utilize the plugin will debut later this year.įor pricing and sales information, contact or visit Faceware at SIGGRAPH 2015 (booth #753). “Developers will be delighted to see how easily they can access the data from the Faceware plugin through the native Blueprint interface.” “The ability to combine the power of the real-time performance capture pipeline of Faceware Live, and the power and flexibility of Unreal Engine 4, gives developers an incredibly powerful tool,” said Norman Wang, the director of development at Opaque Multimedia. The plugin was co-developed by Australia’s Opaque Multimedia (the company behind the Kinect 4 Unreal plugin, the UE4 integration with the Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor) and is ideal for quickly generating facial animation for animatics in the pre-viz process, or for creating facial animation for live interactive events, shows and concerts. The facial movements display in real time via the Unreal Persona animation system. That captured movement data is then streamed instantly into the Unreal Engine to drive a character’s facial animation in real time. The new Faceware Live plugin works like this: Unreal Engine users capture an actor’s facial movements using any video source, such as an onboard computer video or webcam, the Faceware Pro HD Headcam System, or any other video capture device. Integrating our real-time technology with their premier game engine was just a natural fit.”

“Faceware Technologies has a long history of creating some of the most iconic and realistic faces in games and films,” said Peter Busch, vice president of business development at Faceware Technologies, “while Epic’s Unreal Engine is known for helping create some of the best-selling games ever.

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