Facial Animation

• Off-line Authoring Tools - from audio and/or text

  • Face FX (OC3 Entertainment)
  • Lipsync SDK (Annosoft)
  • Magpie Pro. Standalone. Automatically uses FaceGen models. (Third Wish Software)
  • ProductionSync. SDK. (Automatic Sync Technologies)
  • Visage Technologies toolkit and plugins. Automatically uses FaceGen models.
  • Xface. Open-source tools for MPEG-4 and keyframe based talking heads. uses FaceGen

• Off-line Authoring Tools - from motion capture

  • Face Robot. Standalone. (Softimage)
  • Motionbuilder. Standalone. (Autodesk)

• Real-time audio-based SDKs

  • Face FX Live (OC3 Entertainment)
  • InstantSync. (Automatic Sync Technologies)
  • Microsoft SAPI
  • Realtime Lipsync SDK (Annosoft)
  • Visage Technologies SDK. Automatically uses FaceGen models.

• Real-time video-based SDKs

  • dynamixyz.
  • Visage Technologies. Automatically uses FaceGen models:

• Full service facial animation studios

  • CaptiveMotion
  • Cubic Motion
  • Image Metrics
  • visage technologies.

• Automatic detection of feature points for photofit

• Visage Technologies. FaceTrack. Compatible with FaceGen - request more details.