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Puppet Works Voice Works
Voice Works is an exciting new Maya™ plug-in designed to dramatically
speed up the process of creating facial animation within Maya. This
revolutionary software analyzes the phonemes within an audio file,
and lays down keys in an intuitive manner, allowing an animator
to quickly tweak the results.
Eyematic
FaceStation
A powerful software suite for easily creating professional
3D facial animation, FaceStation uses Eyematic's patented computer
vision technology to let anyone "drive" a 3D animated character
using their own facial expressions, a standard camcorder and PC.
With FaceStation, facial animation no longer requires expensive
motion capture hardware, cumbersome markers or weeks of manual labor.
Video in - facial animation out - it's that simple.
Reallusion.com
CrazyTalk
With CrazyTalk, within a matter of minutes you can make
funny, creative and highly personalized animated messages
from static 2D digital images. With this innovative,
powerful and easy-to-use software tool, you can turn
an image of your pet, baby, lover or any other image
into a talking 2D animated character. Your CrazyPal
can be used to poke fun at friends, to personalize a
web page or to create hilarious e-mail messages to pass
on to friends, family, customers or co-workers.
face2face
ALTEREgo
Using the face2face alterEGO, a robust facial analysis
software package, you can capture the facial expressions,
head and lip motions of your talent (even their unique
personality), while achieving near perfect automated
lip synch. All this, without buying special cameras,
markers, lipstick or headgear!
LambSoft
SMIRK
SMIRK, the elegant solution for putting great faces
on characters. SMIRK is a plug-in for Kinetix 3D Studio
MAX and has been thoroughly tested for years at Lamb
& Company, a high-end digital production studio. SMIRK
lets you key frame or work with motion capture data
to create faces with great expressions. SMIRK combines
simultaneous subexpressions; generates a composite head
for each frame of animation.
famous3D
Producer Pro
famous3D Animator is a standalone program running under
Windows NT 4.0 which works seamlessly with 3DStudio
Max2.x -3.x, Maya, SoftImage and Lightwave 5.6, enabling
you to use specialized animation tools with your existing
polygonal or Nurbs models. Animator may be launched
from within your favorite animation package, allowing
facial animation to be integrated into a larger scene
for final rendering.
famous3D
vTracker
Converts your camcorder into a facial motion capture
system! Using a set of supplied retro-reflective markers
applied to the performer's face, famous3D vTracker will
track the movement of these markers, either live or
from a saved .AVI file. This marker motion data can
then be used to animate the face of a character in famous3D
Animator. famous3D vTracker simultaneously records audio
and a video thumbnail of the performance to aid in lip-synching
and further keyframing, and can provide live tracking,
or save to file. famous3D vTracker is a standalone application
running under NT.
famous3D
Producer
famous3D Producer allows web developers and hobbyists
to create engaging and high quality facial animations
quickly and easily. Producer provides editing features
that allow you to select a head, animate the head using
text as an input, and publish it into a web page using
a simple wizard.
Eyematic
Interfaces FaceStation
A full featured, professional level system that lets animators
use facial sensing with their favorite animation program.
FaceStation unites markerless facial tracking with industry
standard animation tools like 3D Studio Max™ and soon Maya™.
FaceStation can also be used to enhance the facial tracking
capabilities of Eyematic Xpression.
Eyematic
Interfaces Xpression
A standalone rich-media authoring tool for creating talking head
content on the web. Xpression utilizes Eyematic's patented facial
tracking technology to allow users to create natural, bandwidth-efficient
character animation while incorporating video, still images and
audio in a proprietary file format engineered for the web.
Singular
Inversions FaceGen Modeller
Stand-alone parametric face modelling software for
Windows. With this technology, you can: Create highly realistic,
or cartoony faces at random from any race, gender and adult age
group.
PuppetSoft
textPuppet
textPuppet® is software used to produce automatic 3d character animation
for virtual personalities, in conjunction with Curious Labs Poser®
software. It is also a highly configurable, high quality, standalone
text-to-speech synthesizer, and is available in eight languages.
Using a speech synthesizer is much faster and easier than recording
live audio. You never have to worry about special equipment, getting
the right actor, or background noises, and you can make changes
in a minute because you only have to type in your text to generate
audio files and animation scripts! It currently works with Windows
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
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