Full Service Game Solutions

Facial animation for gameplay or cinematics

Our Benefits:

- Lift storytelling to new heights with characters who convey believable facial expressions!

- Maximize your budget with our artist driven technology-leveraged services!

- Maintain the creative control you want throughout the iterative character expression process.

- You can put our non-baked animation curves in your game or adjust post delivery as needed per your creative      direction (MAX, Maya, XSI, Lightwave, Houdini, etc)

- With our NEW service options experience the perfect balance of quality and quantity for your budget.

  

Our Service Levels:
"Premiere" - Offers ultimate creative freedom for facial animation in ad spots or game trailers. More

"Pro" -  Offers high-quality facial animation for main characters in game scenes and cutscenes. More

"Headstart" - For budget-conscious developers who need consistent quality for VFX, feature animation, in game, or realtime environments. More

Our Process:

Performance Capture

Analysis and Performance Transfer

Re-Integration

We require NO markers, NO makeup and NO special equipment.  All we need to capture the actor’s performance is a video camera. The facial performance can be captured in a sound studio at the same time as the voice-over performance. Directors can direct the actor’s performance in real-time, and capture the emotions and expressions that perfectly tell the story.

Applying our proprietary computer vision technology, we analyze the performance pixel-by-pixel, teaching the computer to "see" how an individual's face moves.The data that results is then transferred to the 3D model to drive the animation in standard 3D applications, such as 3ds max, Maya, XSI, Lightwave and more. Once the data is applied, we can tweak the animation based on your input.

We give the final animation to you as animation curves created in your animation package of choice. Because we created the animation in your tool of choice, the final animation integrates seamlessly back into your pipeline. The resulting CG facial performance exposes all of the subtle facial details and nuances that bring characters to life, such as eye and lip movements, as well as wrinkles.