While the face may not be tracking all that well (although, given my command of French -- high school from nearly a half century ago -- I can't really tell much) but what sells this is what I was afraid of -- your body capture is really good.

It's what I'm struggling with now.  I have much better face capture (I can get 60fps with no issues and it works perfectly in iClone) but because I don't have a suit I have to capture body separately, and I haven't found a good workflow for that.  I suppose a helmet cam *could* be synced up (by importing the sequence into FW using a virtual webcam) but I'd still need a sync point (the traditional way of a keyboard "clap" might work IF I could sync the audio up in iClone -- I'm not so sure about this).  I'm pretty sure I can't run my iPisoft mocap at the same time I run FW -- that would be stressing even the highest end machine.

Anyway, it looks good, and if you get better FW keying you'll be home free.  Best of luck to you.

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to be honest, i see jerky eyebrow movement and nothing beyond normal lipsync here
you could have just face keyed this and got the same result if not better,
this is no reflection on you or your work, but dropping cash on this doesn't seem to be a good idea right now,
perhaps when the curve editor is out and they force you to buy popvideo to use it.
and... a week later nothing even remotely impressive posted by anyone ........



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Yeah, I would have to do something along those lines.  I'll have to see what shakes out -- part of my problem is a lot of my talent will not be able to mocap, only do the facial video (which I'll then mocap).  So I will have a disconnect between face and body anyway.  I just need to see what works -- perhaps miming along with the facial audio (and you French are known for mimes, right? <g>.

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and you French are known for mimes, right?

No joke ! thrat's true!! That why Faceware can't handle my face!!!! Every person I meet (no joke) said that I'm talking and moving like "Louis de Funes"!!
And I want to use this fact for my story.... 

a) Thank you for sharing your results, including struggles and discoveries.

b) I love the picture of you in your mocap suit.  The new splash screen for iClone should remind everyone to close their curtains before doing any facial or full-body motion capture.  I am sure our neighbors already think we are strange, and if they see us creating our next dance or fight video, they might call the police or the insane asylum to come and pick us up.  We have a strange hobby, no?

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Thanks for being the one to 'finally' post an actual RL FaceWare capture - I'm actually surprised that we haven't seen dozens already as it's been available over a week!  I'd steer clear of the 'knock off' camera on Amazon... that sort of product only sells because it 'looks good' at a quarter of the price.  I imagine beyond the lighting, you're probably getting some serious 'jello effect' from your webcam - they are optimized for static capture, so rolling shutter is the least of their priorities.  As always, being at the 'bleeding edge' of technology means you're going to spend 'a little more' than you budgeted for ;-)  If I was making a face capture 'head rig' I'd opt for the GoPro Hero4 Session... it's smaller and lighter than a regular GoPro, costs $200cdn, and shoots HD at 60fps - so, more than enough for what you're intending... and you'll always get 60fps regardless if the lighting drops.

Oh, and power to you for posting a pic of yourself wearing lipstick!  ;-)  I can't tell you how many compromising videos I've made in pursuit of my art.

We have a strange hobby, no?

Oh, and power to you for posting a pic of yourself wearing lipstick!  ;-)

Hahaha! Thank you guys!! Yes my chidren said at home, it is dad who makes up makeup.....

Thank you IllusionLAB , yep I think I'll opte for a Gopro.

But if you note what I said at the beginning, this is exactly why I haven't (can't speak for anyone else).  Facial mocap on its own is, well, uncompelling.  It's only part of the story, and frankly you can see the demos that show just this.  What is needed is to combine it all, and for those of us without mocap suits it usually means a lot more effort.

I was JUST able to get the final piece of hardware for my own efforts, so tomorrow I'll be fooling around with the full range and should be able to start posting.  But, again, as I said, it's not just about talking heads (talking heads is the most boring kind of *anything* -- television news is all about talking heads).

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