Take-Two Interactive Software acquires Dynamixyz
Dynamixyz's facial mocap tech now available exclusively to Take-Two's own studios like Rockstar Games.
Monday, July 5th, 2021
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Reallusion ships iClone 7.9
Real-time character animation tool gets AccuLips automated lip-sync system, new 'Expression Plus' set of scan-based facial blend shapes.
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Rokoko launches Smartgloves
Neat $995 inertial mocap gloves can be used to stream hand and finger tracking data live to apps like Maya, Blender, Unity and UE4.
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Epic Games releases free iOS app Live Link Face for UE4
Impressive free app streams facial animation from an iPhone to a 3D character in the game engine.
Thursday, July 9th, 2020
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Epic Games acquires facial mocap firm Cubic Motion
Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Rokoko launches Blender plugin for its mocap systems
New integration plugin lets users stream data to Blender from Rokoko's low-cost mocap suits.
Friday, February 7th, 2020
Rokoko launches facial capture add-on for its mocap systems
New iPhone X app lets you capture facial animation alongside full-body data and stream it to UE4, Unity or MotionBuilder.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
Cubic Motion ships Persona
Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Faceware slashes the prices of its facial mocap systems
Cost of perpetual licences of its Analyzer Studio software down 70%; rental now costs $199/year.
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Faceware ships Analyzer 3.8, Retargeter 5.8 and Shepherd
Neat AI-driven updates to firm's markerless facial capture software boost quality of automated solves.
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Epic Games acquires facial capture specialist 3Lateral
Buyout of Epic's tech partner from its amazing GDC demos to boost work on digital humans in UE4.
Thursday, January 24th, 2019