what do i need to do to do a face motion capture on sfm and what stuff do i need to do a face motion capture

[Rouge]

hello everybody, here is Brandon Trantham again and i have 2 Questions: 1. how do i do a Face Motion Capture on SFM and 2. what kind of stuff do i need to do a Face Motion Capture on sfm, please give your answer, i would really appreciate it, thank you everybody :)

[episoder]

you can't do that. what you'd need is: a good webcam. a face with a specific set of markers. a face model rigged with bones with that same set of markers on it. a software that tracks the video feed and the markers and translates it into a file that you could possibly process with a script to generate the bone animation channels.

[Rouge]

Originally posted by episoder:

you can't do that. what you'd need is: a good webcam. a face with a specific set of markers. a face model rigged with bones with that same set of markers on it. a software that tracks the video feed and the markers and translates it into a file that you could possibly process with a script to generate the bone animation channels.

Ok, thank you for your help

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

Originally posted by episoder:

you can't do that. what you'd need is: a good webcam. a face with a specific set of markers. a face model rigged with bones with that same set of markers on it. a software that tracks the video feed and the markers and translates it into a file that you could possibly process with a script to generate the bone animation channels.

Or use a Kinect. As that has motion capture stuff built in and you can probably buy a second hand one cheap.

[episoder]

ugh huh? sure. it's nothing but a webcam with a lil more spectrums. but how you translate the kinect data into sfm format? you know a software that does it? does maya do it? i dunno.

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

Originally posted by episoder:

ugh huh? sure. it's nothing but a webcam wit ha lil more spectrums. but how you translate the kinect data into sfm format? you know a software that does it? does maya do it? i dunno.

There's one on Steam which gives you a free 30 day trial. Can't remember it's name. Something like Icapmotion studio or something.

EDIT - Found it.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/221220/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

Apparently though, it's outdated.

[episoder]

yeh. that ipi soft thing? it does body mocap. i dunno tho if the kinect sensoring is precise enough for face capture with depth map. the visual tracking with markers is probably easier but i dunno either if it does that. *shrugs*

[Paintbrush Poltergeist]

Originally posted by episoder:

yeh. that ipi soft thing? it does body mocap. i dunno tho if the kinect sensoring is precise enough for face capture with depth map. the visual tracking with markers is probably easier but i dunno either if it does that. *shrugs*

It does face cap too. I'd tested it. Granted, OP would need to watch a tutorial. It's VERY fiddly.

[Pte Jack]

https://youtu.be/mPWyyUftne4

https://youtu.be/a_AwDv9Al28

[episoder]

ohh. blender does motion tracking? haven't tried that yet. gotta get some stickers then. xD

with a good 'muscled' mesh you could do the motion from scratch too i presume. it's all 'aim constrained' on the bone endpoints. cheap idea tho. :)