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facial animation

Sizeable update to the AI-assisted animation app adds AutoPhysics based character interaction, and support for facial blendshapes.

Thursday, September 12th, 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

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Maya developer snaps up the startup behind the much-discussed AI-based online VFX platform. Read our FAQs on the buyout.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

Check out the changes ijn the 3D modeling and rendering software, including updates to retopology, OCIO color management and USD.

Thursday, March 28th, 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

New plugins make it easy to use NVIDIA's free AI-based facial animation system to create lip sync for iClone animations.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

iClone-to-Unreal Engine live link can now bake complete crowd animations to single sequences in Unreal Engine. Free for indie artists.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2024

[Sponsored] Discover how to create facial animation for a real-world statue with ZBrush and Reallusion's intuitive character software.

Wednesday, December 20th, 2023

Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and rendering software, including updates to Booleans, animation and USD for 3ds Max.

Wednesday, November 15th, 2023

New GPU-accelerated AI mocap add-on for iClone extracts facial motion data from video in real time. Works with consumer webcams.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

Check out the new features in the real-time puppet animation tool, including the option to edit replays.

Friday, August 11th, 2023

Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.

Monday, August 7th, 2023