Full Service Film Solutions

Facial animation for feature films, visual effects and television

Whether you need photorealistic CG faces for the silver screen, or stylized characters for a commercial, our full-service film service supports your production pipeline and animation staff by re-creating facial performances with an autheticity and fidelity that help your studio achieve new heights in storytelling. Our technology exposes the nuances and subtleties that define an actor's performance and a character's personality. What's more, our unintrusive proces allows you to maintain creative control of the process from the moment the actor's performance is captured, to the moment it appears on-screen.

 

Our Benefits:

- Achieve levels of facial realism you never thought possible

- Remove the markers and equipment that often impede the creative process

- Expand your creative staff without sacrificing your budget

- Maintain creative control throughout the entire process

 

Our Service Levels:

"Elite" - Perfect for creating completely believable digital faces for your most important film scenes. More

"Premium" - For high-quality facial performances in CG movies and visual effects shots. More

"Pro" - Ideal for animated characters in trailers and ad spots. More

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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 most of the 3D applications, including 3ds max, Maya, XSI, Lightwave, Houdini 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.