MetaHuman Animator, the next-gen version of Epic Games’ MetaHuman avatar tool, is here — and we gotta say, it looks pretty remarkable. Epic’s MetaHuman tool, which was first unveiled back in 2021, was ...

Holywater, an AI -first vertical video company, has acquired visual effects company Jeynix, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively. And from here on out, Holywater will be known as Holywater ...

Square Enix revealed that FFVII Remake and FFVII Rebirth Facial Director Akira Iwasawa will offer a new lecture on character facial animations focused on the latest title in the Final Fantasy VII ...

Epic Games had quite a few impressive upgrades to show for Unreal Engine 5, one of them being a revolutionary change to the work that goes into facial animation. MetaHuman has been a part of the ...

Facial animation and performance capture represent a rapidly evolving field at the intersection of computer graphics, machine learning, and human–computer interaction. This discipline focuses on ...

It was recently revealed that The Last of Us Part 2 facial animations are systemic, meaning that facial capture was not used to animate the gameplay sections. This specifically refers to ...

Epic Games has revealed at its State of Unreal keynote at GDC 2023 its new MetaHuman creator tool that will enable developers to animate their MetaHumans with just an iPhone. The announcement featured ...

Jessica is a freelance writer with an unrepentant love of all things sci-fi and fantasy, be it in book, film, or video game format. Not only was this present in the equipment, ships, and structures ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 11,348,299) for “online modeling for real-time facial animation.” It involves the company’s and Animoji and Memoji. Animojis allow a user to choose an avatar (e ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's Audio2Face technology uses generative AI to create realistic 3D facial animations from speech audio, capturing emotion and intonation for lifelike digital characters. Open-sourced with ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations ...