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Create a FACS-based facial rig suitable for VFX or animation work with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Maya tutorial.

Saturday, April 26th, 2025

Much-anticipated facial mocap plugin for Blender gets its official release. Now supports animation retargeting to Rigify rigs.

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

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

Intuitive add-on can generate an animated 3D reconstruction of an actor's head from video footage, for animation. VFX or motion graphics.

Thursday, August 22nd, 2024

Popular plugin for creating 3D head models from source photos of an actor gets streamlined new one-click texturing workflow.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

See how the studio created 3D facial replacements based on the Hong Kong action star's younger self for the 2023 comedy drama.

Wednesday, January 31st, 2024

Download detailed guides to 2D game development in Unity and MetaHuman Creator's facial solver.

Friday, May 6th, 2022

Check out the new features in the popular plugin for generating 3D heads from source photographs.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021

See what's new in RenderMan, Redshift, Enscape, R3DS Wrap and Render Manager 2 for 3ds Max.

Thursday, December 2nd, 2021

Master facial modelling for animation with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Sunday, April 25th, 2021

Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2020

Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015