Image Metrics PortableYou provides developers with a collection of advanced avatar services, making it incredibly simple to add personalized avatars to any application on any web-enabled platform.
Key features of the PortableYou platform include:
PortableYou allows end-users to create fully rigged 3D avatars from photographs that can automatically be outputted in the rig format and topology of the intended environment. End-users can also create one avatar and then use it across any PortableYou-enabled application.
Let your users further personalize and customize their characters with various accessories, including hair, glasses, hats and other items with the PortableYou Accessories services. Accessories are designed to be lightweight yet expressive and are suitable for environments with tight resource constraints.
Let your users star in their favorite movie clip or still image. This distinctive service renders avatars into pre-created 2D content, manages render jobs, performs format conversion, and accesses previously created content. Content can be output in many supported formats and resolutions to suit the varying needs of the end application.
Give your users the freedom to access their avatars from any platform. PortableYou web services are accessible from desktop, mobile and server platforms, so a wide range of applications can benefit from its personalized avatar creation capability.
Not all users have high-end processing hardware at their disposal. Computationally expensive processes – like avatar creation and content rendering – are therefore offloaded to backend servers, ultimately enabling mobile and other resource-constrained applications to take full advantage of the technology even without specialized graphics hardware.
The same platform freedom afforded to users is available to developers with thin client libraries available in most modern development languages including PhP, Python, Java, and C++. Developers can also access the platform through standard web services calls to the Web API.
