Master FACS Rigging for Facial Motion Capture
Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
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KeenTools releases FaceTracker for Blender
Much-anticipated facial mocap plugin for Blender gets its official release. Now supports animation retargeting to Rigify rigs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Tools to watch in Fall 2024: Reblium Studio
Check out Reblika's promising all-in-one standalone app for creating ultra-detailed 3D characters for games and animation.
Friday, August 30th, 2024
KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2024.1 for Blender
Popular plugin for creating 3D head models from source photos of an actor gets streamlined new one-click texturing workflow.
Thursday, March 21st, 2024
Maxon releases Moves by Maxon 2023
See what's new in the free iPhone and iPad app for 3D scanning and facial and full-body motion capture.
Sunday, September 11th, 2022
Ziva Dynamics launches Ziva Face Trainer
Cloud-based AI facial rigging service generates 'real-time faces' for use in Maya, Unity and UE4.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Download 32 free mocap moves and 4 rigged characters
Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.
Monday, January 24th, 2022
Download the free Moves by Maxon iOS mocap app
Update: free app can now create 3D scans of objects in Cinema 4D, as well as capturing mocap data.
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
KeenTools ships FaceBuilder 2021.4 for Nuke and Blender
Check out the new features in the popular plugin for generating 3D heads from source photographs.
Saturday, December 11th, 2021
Savage Interactive releases Procreate 5.2
iPad sketching app now lets users import and paint directly onto 3D models in OBJ or USDZ format.
Monday, November 1st, 2021
Epic Games releases free iOS app Live Link VCAM for UE4
New virtual cinematography app lets you control a 3D camera inside Unreal Engine using your iPad.
Thursday, September 9th, 2021
Eye candy: Epic Games' new 'Slay' Unreal Engine demo
Watch the action-packed CG short, then download its fully rigged and animated lead character for free.
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
Glassbox Technologies ships DragonFly 2.5
See what's new in the virtual camera system for Maya, Unity and UE4 and in its iOS companion app.
Friday, April 30th, 2021