The practice of having one performer creating the body performance via mocap, another voice actor performing audio in a VO booth, and facial animation produced by hand (introducing a third interpretation) is not only detrimental to efficiency and quality, it is logistically burdensome to schedule, manage, and produce coherent results with any sort of ease or economy.
The simple answer: Full Performance Capture. Image Metrics' headcam technology can be combined with any motion capture acquisition method for body animation. Full fidelity facial data is captured, no matter what size volume, with no limit to how many actors can be captured in a single shot. Our head camera rig allows for the addition of microphones and markers/gyros for the head position camera, and syncs to house timecode to seamlessly integrate with your existing motion capture rig. The result produces impressive, natural, and realistic performances allowing multiple actors play off each other in their true environment to further enhance interaction.
One of the unique benefits of FACEWARE's video-based technology is that it is pixel-based, including capture of the most powerful conduit of animation—the eyes. Full Performance Capture in a multi-actor shoot will ensure character eyelines are in sync with what their bodies are doing. Accurate eyelines naturally portray enhanced realistic emotion and subtle nuance—"life."
Consult with our Full Performance Capture experts to fully implement this pipeline within your own project.
