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
facial rigging
Allright Rig 2.0 ships via Unreal Marketplace
Versatile UE4 auto-rigging plugin creates a range of characters and creatures, with facial animation.
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
Polywink creates blendshapes and rigs for any head model
Digital doubles firm Eisko's new online service also readies 3D avatars for animation on iPhone X.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2018
Miquel Campos releases mGear 2.5 for Maya
Free Maya rigging framework gets new RBF Manager and updated Simple Rig auto-rigging system.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Eisko launches automated online facial rigging service
Rig on Demand system generates a complete bone and blendshape based rig for any humanoid head.
Thursday, October 20th, 2016
Blender Cloud releases BlenRig 5
Download the first offical release of the 'feature film quality' auto-rigging and skinning system for Blender.
Monday, January 18th, 2016
Joe Alter releases LipService 6.5 for Maya
Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
ScriptAttack releases BonyFace 3.0 Extended
Updated: new version of bone based facial rigging plugin for 3ds Max adds phoneme-creation tools.
Thursday, April 26th, 2012