Facial motion capture test

Im not dead, im just busy learning new things. Thanks for your feedback on how to improve this.

I Recorded me acting with a bunch of silly looking markers on my face and stuck the tracked motion on heavy, here are the results. i didn't do any tweaking to the animation as this was just to test.
Ignore the fact there's a face on his tongue, i forgot to change the placeholder texture haha.

I've been learning how to do this and other things for my next project, I'm moving on from source film maker and going to render directly from max.

Used 3 PS3Eye cameras, PFTrack, Facerobot, Max

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• TF2
• Team
• Fortress
• two
• face
• facial
• motion
• capture
• mocap
• pftrack
• animation

[titananimations]

Is this an in game feature of TF2? (I don't own or play it) I just see Demo man animations everywhere. Wonder how one would get a hold of a rig?

[xcloudx01]

@titananimations rigs come with the source sdk

[Lukc87]

YaY Boondocks

[CrisRowlands]

This looks rediculously similar to the facial motions used on The Incredibles :P

Thats not a bad thing, it just makes me think of it.

[THEBEEDOOBOP]

Wait, wha-

[TheSabbath98]

Pulp Fiction :D

[DocWolph]

SLJ enunciates very strongly and this did not look it. The whole sequence it was not convincing and just looked strange.

Morphing Phonemes for every basic vocal sound and timing them to the voice track is usually the best way w/ cartoon characters.

You may need a much more detailed Facial rig and/or Mocap data. You might want to look into Kinect software, some animator software designers are working on. Some work really well.

I'm sure you've come along since this one...

[Henbot]

cool but sometimes it seems out of sync, you might want to tweak the audio

[gmoderki]

It's good but in most cases the mouth doesn't close all the way :c

[Cartoonothing]

Hard to believe he eats Sandviches with that mouth.