Blender Facial Animation Addon | Faceit

the process of creating a facial expression includes a tedious amount of time rigging and animating now thanks to the faces add-on what would normally take days will take minutes and in this video we are going to see how this is possible by diving deep into what the face it addon has to offer so without further ado let's get started logic pbr painter pro is a blender add-on that allows you to texture and paint directly in blender with a layer styled workflow which is very similar to what you have in substance painter and photoshop so face it is an all-in-one facial rigging motion capture and animation add-on it is an intuitive semi-automatic and non-destructive workflow guides you through the creation of facial shape keys that are perfectly adapted to your 3d models topology and morphology whether it's a photorealistic human anthropomorphic or cartoon model you maintain a full artistic control while saving a ton of time and energy some of the features that the add-on offers is smart easy and intuitive facial rigging process by giving you the ability to generate a rig and a bunch of procedural generated expression by placing the facet landmark on the face of your character now if we look at the auto-generated facial expression the add-on offers 52 arcade shape keys automatically generated the ability to load expression from arcade audio to face or just create your own presets and you can add unlimited custom expressions export share and reuse them on all your projects the add-on also gives you the ability to bake the expression or the deformation from the modifier stack pose and sculpting into the final shape keys and one of the great features that the add-on offers is arcade and audio to face motion capture you can quickly import captured arcade animation and mix arcade and audio to face motion by face region also the arcade control rig is compatible with all mocap utilities you can load animation directly onto the rig and use animation layers to tweak the animation the add-on has some powerful retargeting tools for example the target shapes panel can be used to specify which shape keys should be animated and the very versatile shape key retargeting engine is included too you can retarget any shape key animations between different models also the whole process of the faces trick facial expression creation is fully non-destructive you can return to any point in the rigging process even after animating you can also customize expression by tweaking any parts of the auto-generated expressions by pausing the control bones or non-destructively sculpt upon any of the registered meshes to fine tune the facet expression or you can change the range of motion for any expression in real time you can quickly mirror both the pose and the sculpt influence and also the weight generated based on the landmarks and waiting usually requires no further editing also if you want to know more about the add-on you can check out the extensive written documentation for more information on the individual steps now we can briefly go around the simple workflow of creating a facial rig with face it first you need to register the relevant geometry then you can set up the landmarks on the face of your character placement of the landmarks is a crucial step the accuracy of the landmark's placement will have a huge impact on the overall quality of the resulting expressions then you can generate a rig and the smart bend geometry and with that you get all the auto-generated expression that the add-on offers of course you can further customize your expressions manually if needed by the way the add-on supports facial hair and other geometries after this you can bake your expressions into shape keys then you can import your recorded motion and see how the face reacts or you can go live on the viewport by the end you can export it to a game engine and as we said earlier the add-on offers a non-destructive workflow so you can go back to any stage you want now tell me in the comments below what do you think about this add-on make sure to subscribe for more videos like this one thank you for watching and goodbye you

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Id: SW0J0bEa6x4

Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 18 2022