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| Softimage Unveils Face Robot Software Avid Technology, Inc. has announced that its Softimage subsidiary has unveiled Face Robot - the industry's first software application dedicated to the creation of believable facial animation for high-end film, post and games productions. In just six easy steps, artists can generate emotive expressions that replicate natural, organic movement of skin and soft tissue. The software works with all major 3D applications and easily integrates into any studio pipeline. Currently, the most common methods for animating human faces are complex, labor-intensive and time-consuming, typically requiring artists to create a series of shapes for each facial expression. With Face Robot software, artists save valuable production time by directly manipulating various anatomical features such as the mouth, eyebrows and jaw. With the ability to exercise precise control, Face Robot offers the freedom to sculpt the nuances of an expression at any point during the animation process. With the software's unique soft-tissue "solver", Face Robot simulates how facial tissue slides and deforms during the formation of expressions and includes a corrective sculpting system for detailed art direction. With built-in support for importing and exporting of Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya file formats, Face Robot software can be easily incorporated into existing pipelines, offering further interoperability. Key Features include: -- Integrated facial soft tissue solver -- Direct manipulation of face controls -- Visual animation interface -- Iterative performance refinement tools -- Animation retargeting -- SDK and multiple scripting languages -- Point caching with all major 3D applications -- .C3D Motion file import -- Import and export Maya .mb &.fbx, 3ds Max .max, Point Oven .psc, and .lwo2 -- Reference HD footage of actors performing facial expression and phonemes. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |