@rjj1234
I think I may have conflated Faceshift and Faceware. Both similar I plead.
https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/24/apple-faceshift/
[Detailed report on apple's acquisition and its backstory as a start-up in Zurich.]
I'll look some more to see if apple have a web page about it.
My apologies to all.
Damnit I was thinking of Faceshift as the company that RL was dealing with rather than Faceware. Thanks Rampa.
So the price schedule above is correct as is from the Faceware site where they are asking visitors if they are coming from Faceshift

I replies to your earlier post a bit too soon. I'll check this out. Many thanks!

Thanks for that reminder about iClone's promise of Facial mocap!!! :-)

Yikes. I must have seen an ios app related to Faceshift.  No that would not be relatively inexpensive regardless of one's "relatives."  Does looks like great software but I'll be searching for alternatives. Still I'd love to check it out more carefully. Does anyone have a link for Faceshift Studios?  Thanks!

You could well be right since FaceShift - now owned by Apple and seemingly changing its name to FACEWARE - has a peculiar item in its product pricing where it cites a zero cost for non-professionals.

Supposedly (and rumors are all we have right now) the Facial Mocap part (add-on?) in iClone 7.1 is from FaceShift.  Equally supposedly, it's NOT supposed to cost an arm and a leg (I guess FS can license its technology as long as you can't export it from iClone and use elsewhere).  So we should be getting the same great facial tracking, but not at 1.5k a year (which is more than I could have afforded even when I was employed in the industry).

I assume that price is for professionals doing work for hire and yes, in that case, it's pretty reasonable.  Not for hobbyists, though (the vast majority of iClone users).

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@rjj1234

Faceshift - Each seat of the software costs $1,500/year.13 Mar 2015

Relatively inexpensive? You got rich relatives ;-)

Hi, hate to disregard your request to not get you "started on mocap" but how about FaceShift for iClone?
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the necessary details but I get the impression that one could purchase a relatively inexpensive camera like the Intel RealSense or even a Kinect and get high quality facial data.   Could that data be integrated with previously captured full body motion in some other software package which functions like Motionbuilder but is less expensive?

Thanks!

Robert

@urban lamb

No probs, struggle on...

lol your  always good for a chuckle thanks hehe.   :/

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