The MakeHuman team is adding support of for FaceShift facial expression capture.
Manuel Bastioni writes:
We are porting SLSI's FaceShift script for Blender to the next version of MakeHuman facial rig.
It was originally written by Sign Language Synthesis and Interaction group at DFKI/MMCI (Saarbrücken, Germany) to work with MakeHuman Alpha 7 and now Jonas Hauquier is modifying it in order to work with the new MakeHuman rigging (still under development).What you see is a prototype of a script that will be part of the official MHtools Blender scripts.
It illustrates that it is very easy to make the new MakeHuman face rig compatible with FaceShift, and that it will be not very complex to integrate the MH mesh with faceShift in tools like Maya.
It also shows the power of the new face rig in MH, and how portable it is across entirely different human models.
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Wow. That's amazing
Will the facial expression capture only work with MakeHuman models?
As far as I understand, the facial capture is done by a commercial tool. The script takes the data broadcast by that software and animates the MakeHuman model accordingly.
Cool. So it should work with any model then. I wonder if the accuracy of the facial capture would be increased by having markers on the face...
Ah, never mind, just had a look at the Faceshift website. Cool
I'm very impressed, so smooth. This is an is an amazing way of literally breathing life into characters.
I saw this a few days ago and was super excited. The price tag is a bit beyond my means (currently) but the technology is fantastic.
holy F'n sh$^ , cant wait to try this out , tried Make Human out for the first time in a couple of years about a month ago and it worked great , FIRST TIME THROUGH , wohooooo. always had a hard time with it. hopefully they keep making good progress .
Awesome. I always found facial animation to be a pain. I tried it once on a test model but never went back. (that creepy smile will always be stuck in my head). great to know we can now get facial capture in blender (even if its through a third party tool)
SICK SICK SICK !!! Yeah Baby yeah. I love it!!