Automatic markerless facial
performance capture software for Windows |
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Whether you're
creating games, or producing animation for TV or
film, Maskarad lets you
easily create expressive, realistic facial
animations from video. In fact, Maskarad
automatically
converts the details and nuances of an actor’s
video to animation data ready to be used in
your favorite 3D package to easily animate your
own character rig.
Maskarad uses
state-of-the-art technology to
automatically locate and track head motion as
well as facial expressions and precise lips
movements.
No messy or cumbersome face marker setups, no
expensive dedicated hardware and no
need to outsource any part of your pipeline. Just a simple video file featuring an actor
performance is all you need to create lifelike
facial animations.
Maskarad not only analyzes video files,
it also processes
the audio track and precisely detects the phonemes
timing of the actor speech. Maskarad
takes lips animation to
the next level by using an intelligent phonetic engine to break down audio tracks
cleanly. It automatically detects phonemes and has an impressive language
support that can handle almost any language including English, Spanish, French,
Japanese, Italian and German.
Maskarad is a
standalone Windows application that can easily
be integrated in any production pipeline. Select
a video and Maskarad will quickly output
motion capture files ready to be imported in your
favorite 3D applications including 3ds max,
Cinema4D, Lightwave, Maya, Softimage and MotionBuilder.
Maskarad animation data works on just
about any character rig, from blend morph
shapes to bone-based rigs as well as complex
custom rigs, your character will have never felt
so life-like that quickly.
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I've tested and used a lot of 3rd party software in my
years of production on
some of the best games of all-time like Bungie's Halo 3,
Ubisoft's Spinter Cell and Prince of Persia to name a
few. My hat goes off to the team over at Di-O-Matic for
nailing it with Maskarad!
It's insanely simple, it output results in a fraction of
the time it used to take me to produce facial
animations.
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Jonathan Abenhaim
Senior freelance character animator |
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Maskarad provides a remarkable solution
for doing facial motion capture. It is
remarkably fast and easy to use. It
lets animators use their own video
cameras or existing video files from any
source to create motion capture files
that make use of markerless tracking as
well as phoneme analysis. |
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Lee Dickholtz
Meta Motion
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With Maskarad, you get everything
you need to perform markerless facial performance capture, this
includes:
- Track every and anyone,
from all ethnicities, all ages and fully
supports facial accessories like facial hair,
glasses and percings.
- Accurate head positioning, able to
track fast head movements and head rotations.
- Accurate markerless facial features detection,
fully automated without any complicated marker setup.
- Interpolated shapes data,
automatically output animation curves to easily
control facial poses using morph targets or
blend shapes.
- Phonetic
detection support most languages, including
English, French, Spanish, Japanese and many others.
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Input wide range of video formats, including
Quicktime, AVI, and MPG formats.
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Output numerous motion capture file formats, including
FBX, C3D, BVH and HTR
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Rig independent set-up, full support
for any type of facial rigging including bones,
blend shapes, morph targets, and complex custom
rigs.
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Float Licensing,
so you can easily share licenses across your network.
Maskarad outputs motion files ready to be
imported in your
favorite 3D applications including 3ds max,
Cinema4D, Lightwave, Maya,
MotionBuilder and Softimage.
The process of mapping the motion data
files to your own character rig is called 'motion retargeting'. Most 3D
applications offer many options for retargeting motion. From simple retargeting
options to advanced weight-able constraints setups, you should be able to find
numerous motion retargeting options to suit your specific production needs in
most 3D applications. Once the data is imported, you can use the tools offered
in your 3D software to connect your character rig to the performance capture
animation data produced by Maskarad.