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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Red9 ProPack gets new tools created for Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Maya animation toolkit for VFX and games gets new tools developed for Red9's character rigging work on the latest Sonic movie.
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists
Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
How to create facial blendshapes using photogrammetry
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to process 3D scans of an actor for use in a FACS-based facial animation rig in Maya.
Sunday, September 22nd, 2024
Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0
Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
Unity discontinues the Ziva products
Unity ends sales of Maya tissue simulation plugin Ziva VFX, real-time toolset Ziva RT, and facial-rigging service Ziva Face Trainer.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Bring a statue to life with Character Creator and ZBrush
[Sponsored] Discover how to create facial animation for a real-world statue with ZBrush and Reallusion's intuitive character software.
Wednesday, December 20th, 2023
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
Get Unity and Epic Games' new free game art e-books
Download detailed guides to 2D game development in Unity and MetaHuman Creator's facial solver.
Friday, May 6th, 2022
Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics
Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Ziva Dynamics launches ZRT Face Trainer in beta
Sign up now to test this promising next-gen AI-trained automated facial rigging system for games.
Monday, November 22nd, 2021
How to create stylized facial rigs for production in Maya
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create professional rigs for cartoon-style characters.
Thursday, May 13th, 2021