Face Mocap using ANY Camera

[@JamieDunbar]

Boo-yah! I've been following the facial mocap scene for the past two years and it's so exciting there's finally a truly free workflow from beginning to end. This is going to open the door for so many people 🥳

[@RG_77]

DUDE!!!! I love that strike through the word IPHONE.. Makes me so happy

[@LFA_GM]

This video should be part of YT recommendations for any artist or developer. Great work you're doing with animation and mocap. And a big thank you to all devs who made these two addons available for free.

[@CGDive]

Nice, glad you found it useful! ❤

[@LFA_GM]

@@CGDive Indeed. Would you show the proper way to bake and export the facial blend shape animation to FBX? I wanted to import the csv in Blender and send it to other DCCs. Thanks. Keep it up.

[@CGDive]

@@LFA_GM shape keys should export out though FBX without any special preparation!

[@LFA_GM]

Thanks@@CGDive . I'll give it a try.

[@earthlingarlene]

This is so excellent! I have been searching for months for a way to get mo-cap from pre-recorded video. The Audio2Face workflow was too complicated for me and I definitely prefer something integrated into blender. This was perfect!! I already have FaceIt and had the model pretty much set-up. I followed this tutorial tonight and within no time I had a result. I was surprised how well it captured the head tilts. In the video, the person was wearing glasses and had a lot of glare on the lenses, and surprisingly the software caught most of that movement. I have a lot of clean-up to do but this works great as a starting point. Thank you so much for making this tutorial!

[@matt_the.creator]

😭😭😭you have no idea how much I've needed this, especially when the reallusion guys have just dropp their ai facial mocap stuff

[@binyaminbass]

The reallusion thing looks much more advanced than this. But hey, it’s free!

[@user-gz1jh1ir7q]

Thanks for your video! I've been following the channel for a long time and this is one of my favorites. IMHO This is the best channel about creating animations. You do a great work!

[@CGDive]

Wow, thanks! Appreciate the nice words :)

[@roopatandel6590]

Thank you so much for this video ,You have solved my biggest problem as well as doubt or issue ,from past two years i was wondering about the facial expressions in animation. Thank you once again god bless you

[@carlosavelar5974]

I've been waiting for this video for a long time! You are the best!

[@CGDive]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@PixelForgeLab]

Hi there, first try I did it, was successful, then tried again, faceit and live link face and I got this error multiple times ! Python: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\faceit\mocap\mocap_base.py", line 842, in execute for x in futils.get_action_frame_range( File "C:\Users\myname\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\scripts\addons\faceit\core\faceit_utils.py", line 12, in get_action_frame_range frame_range = action.curve_frame_range AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'curve_frame_range'

[@IsabelleIze]

Same problem , can someone give me an advise on why this problem , ? after yes twice , it open and close it I don't know why

[@activemotionpictures]

13:41- OMG, "COMBINE" finally works in local SRT with offser! Gosh! It took forever to see it fixed. Thank you for another amazing video!

[@CGDive]

Yeah, not sure when it was fixed. It must have been a couple of versions back.

[@randomdudr]

This is perfect! I actually don't need the head rotations

[@patnor7354]

very useful

[@carlosavelar5974]

dude I love you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Your videos are perfect! You are incredible! Thanks!

[@CGDive]

haha, I am getting a lot more "I love yous" on this video than I am used to. Seems like it is addressing a real problem. Nice!

[@cowbless]

The dead eyes tho. But still pretty impressive, probably useful with a bit of tweaking.

[@manshah7]

big time thanks for this! just what i needed!

[@CGDive]

Nice!

[@qadirqureshi7805]

Hi, thank you. I am facing a problem. When I try FaceIT, it reacts in the opposite way when I turn my head. When I turn the head left/right in the video, the character's head turns up/down in Blender. So it reacts in the opposite way - in the video I shoot the head up/down - in Blender it turns left/right. I am using auto rig pro with faceit.

[@chiddin2895]

Did you figure out a solution by any chance? :')

[@qadirqureshi7805]

@@chiddin2895 still not

[@legendboyAni]

I love doing by hand 😊

[@leonpijudo6875]

LiveLinkFace wont work with CSV file. My character face stays idle

[@AirmanCS]

Is there a way to do live capturing on the app without an iphone tho? bc I have only seen video do cvs and then you import but live capture only has 4 apps and all of them are iphone exclusives

[@Sen3D]

Would be nice to know how well it tracks the eyes. Because the eyes are the biggest issue here. Not just the eyelids.

[@CGDive]

It's hard to quantify how well it does it. I think it tracks it as well as the other features. So not perfect but somewhat accurate.

[@alanblackzy3395]

thanks so much

[@llYuki0okami]

a dream come true

[@TaygunGencosmanoglu]

I love you so much man! What would we do without you? I'll try it next as soon as I finish my job. Thank you so much!

[@nimitverma3460]

Plz make same for unreal engine

[@thepokekid01]

This is so really good! Both as info and tech... but it's still seems like it could use some manual tweaking after because it didn't seem to capture all your acting as well as it could have

[@CGDive]

Yep, that's why I included the parts in tweaking the mocap 🙂

[@Qaanaaq0]

Yeah, its not great. Google mediapipe released a lightweight face and landmark recognition model. That is what I used in the app. They have better heavy models not accessible to the public. Some commercial products possibly train their own models or purchase usage of the better google models. But hey its free (the app creator here)

[@garimamandli9779]

Can same thing done in unreal with metahuman without iphone

[@CGDive]

Not sure.

[@shivangipriya4153]

Thank you so much >> you still the best and you save the world , I am looking now for hand capture with finger movement .. I could not find it.. I hope you can help us (all the world) in this matter after you solve the problem by a nice video ( the above).

[@yahbin77]

Master Class

[@CGDive]

Thanks!

[@zigyhouseofficial7751]

For my part, face landmark only worked once and since then, there is a bug when opening just with the promt command

[@CGDive]

report to the developer!

[@everything2god]

Hi! When I transfer a model with a faceit rig, the faceit addon stops seeing the rig. The ability to animate with LiveLinkFace is lost. How can I connect the addon to the ring if it has lost it.

[@SANTOUIMAGESERVICE]

Thank you very much !

[@TheOneAndOnlyThumper]

This is great! I think a great addition to the suite of tools would be a way to scale up the responsiveness of the captured rig points, i.e. selecting the brows, lips, jaw and setting a multiplier for scale for more intense/detailed performance capture. Is the capture framerate based on the set framerate within blender or does it capture at the camera framerate and interpolate frames? Either way, I'll definitely be grabbing the add-ons to play with! I'm working on a character in unreal engine and so far I've had to just keep the face static.

[@gemdzqzdqgemdzqzdq6791]

Nice🎉👍🏻

[@CGDive]

🎉

[@kelann92322]

Thank you.

[@JOEFRAUST]

Once you do the mocap in blender, can you bring that information into Unreal Engine 5?

[@CGDive]

It should be possible

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

so cool, is there something for UE5 and any phone? I just use Metahuman

[@CGDive]

not sure about that sorry. I am planning to focus on UE soon!

[@VisualistAyush07]

Thank you man Thank you so much thank you ×100×♾️🥹

[@CGDive]

No problem 👍

[@JordyShortRibs]

Omg finally!

[@sarjilarafat3698]

There's an error showing up while importing the CSV file. It says, ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'V'. I put a mov file on the load audio section and a csv file on the csv import section. Kept the frame similar to the mov file. Then it showed error when I clicked import csv.

[@CGDive]

I cannot help with app errors. Please get in touch with the tool developer.

[@haraldthi]

Thanks! I have looked at it, and do not see why it can't run on Linux or most other systems as it made in Python with numpy and Tk, but I'm not much of a programmer either and can't get the libraries to work together. Anyone here up for the task?

[@CGDive]

According to the developer, it can be built for Linux or Mac. It's just that they only provide a pre built version for Windows.

[@mentawaisurftrips]

hey guys just curious how does this quality compare to iphone mocaps? if i use a webcam or android phone (without depth sensor), is it still comparable quality to iphone mocaps? or slightly worse?

[@jmtm00]

Thank you❤

[@CGDive]

Welcome!

[@Japleen_Couture]

Hi, thanks for his vid I wanna askdoes this work with Linux?

[@CGDive]

The app that processes the video is built for windows. I think the code is available and it can be built for Linux by someone who knows how to do it.

[@bravonotutorials3291]

It didn't ask me to import a video file. It just launches my webcam and starts to track live footage. I don't know where to find the csv file when I stop the tracking.

[@CGDive]

I can't say for sure. Please ask the app developer!

[@bravonotutorials3291]

I realised I downloaded the wrong version. Thank you for your swift reply!

[@mosesNsibande-wg7hg]

Good day guys , am a new subscriber ..i howsoever downlaoded face landmark but it shows two options saying (mild filtering ....) and the second which says (aggressive filtering ) when i try to install it , and neither of this options seems to work out ....please assist .

[@CGDive]

Try asking the tool developer, that's your best bet.

[@Qaanaaq0]

Hi, you downloaded the live streaming version. Try the normal version.

[@PCMTTOPPER]

For knowledge it is ok But rhubarb is best for short videos

[@stevecypert]

I keep getting Github pages that don't match your description. Can you post the exact link? Thank you.

[@CGDive]

I can't say why. The links in the description box seem to be correct. The mocap extraction app github.com/Qaanaaq/Face_Landmark_Link/ The blender addon: nickfisher.gumroad.com/l/tvzndw?layout=profile

[@cybercat1991]

Hi, this is amazing but I am wondering if this also works without faceit? It's quit expensive for starters. I'm using daz3d models that comes with a face rig as well or I can manully ad a face rig with the metarig from blender. Will that also works?

[@CGDive]

It does works without faceit. Did you watch the video? :D I am not familiar with DAZ or its face rig so I can't help there, sorry.

[@cybercat1991]

thanks for your quick response! I'm sorry if i missed the answer within the tutorial. I did watched it and the full tutorial is applied on a faceit-rig but yes I skipped some parts so again sorry if the answer is in there@@CGDive

[@raulcengher7735]

You can make mocap with wrinkles animation ?

[@CGDive]

If you set up the wrinkles, sure!

[@raulcengher7735]

@@CGDive what I want to say is to suggest you to make a tutorial like what I mentioned up

[@sebastianosewolf2367]

and so not useable when its windows only

[@gauravgames]

It's work with unreal engine?

[@CGDive]

Shake keys work with unreal.

[@animbenard9747]

Thanks so much for the tutorial. I used the free addon. The csv file loads with the keyframes inserted but has no effect on the character. What could be the possible solution

[@CGDive]

I can't say for sure. Does the character has ARKit shape keys?

[@animbenard9747]

I used a character from character creater 3. Is their shape keys different from Arkit shape keys. How can I make the Arkit shape keys. Thanks bro

[@CGDive]

@@animbenard9747 I don't use CC so I can't say for sure, sorry. I believe CC character do have ARKit shapes or at least something similar so you have to make sure that you are bringing them into Blender. And also that the shape names are correct. Good luck!

[@animbenard9747]

@@CGDive Thank you so much bro.

[@animbenard9747]

Renaming the shapekeys to ARKit worked fine. Thanks boss. U did great

[@EbisBikechannel-rc7ri]

Facelandmarker is only for windows!?

[@CGDive]

I think so unless you build it for your OS.

[@mentawaisurftrips]

i'm having trouble running face landmarker on my Mac OS (running windows virtually)...how can I build it for my macOS? thanks in advance!@@CGDive

[@CGDive]

@@mentawaisurftrips I hope you are not expecting help from me personally because I have no idea, sorry.

[@Dude_Slick]

LiveLinkFace not working. Console flashes for a split second and disappears.

[@CGDive]

Contact the developer!

[@CGDive]

Also this tutorial is not about LiveLinkFace lol

[@Dude_Slick]

@@CGDive I was just being stupid. I figured it out.Thanks.

[@377omkar]

Reallilluison crying in corrner

[@Bhuttaanimation]

Dear Sir/mam, I am facing ' The specified file is not valid' error while importing Mocap. Please guide me as the addon without this features is worthless for me and i just purchased it after watching this video. Thanks

[@CGDive]

Hello. You didn't specify which addon you mean. But even if you did, these are not my add-ons. I am just make tutorials about them. Please contact the developer from whom you purchased the product that you are having trouble with. Thank you!

[@Bhuttaanimation]

I was talking about Faceit, But now my issue is resolved after switching to simple files of addon (previous version)@@CGDive

[@CGDive]

@@Bhuttaanimation great to hear!

[@Sakurazoku]

Still nothing exist to make the life easier for the blendshape ?

[@nickfisherau]

I really want to work on that, and I think I can solve it, but I would need someone to fund me to do it :\

[@crummymudd8625]

there's a video about using Nvidia Omnverse Audio2Face that will generate the ARKit blendshapes. But I'll say -- it's not easy. I got the blendshapes out to Blender, now trying LiveLinkFace -- 1st time, animations do not play

[@shahmaarbaba]

this method work with auto rig pro?

[@CGDive]

For Auto-Rig Pro face rig? No, it only works for a specific set of shapekeys, the so called "ARKit" shapes. Some info here kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYKWY36IjtZpiKM

[@shahmaarbaba]

@@CGDive any another way to make 52 arkit blendshape key easily in blender?

[@raymondwood5496]

"The specified file is not valid." why i get this error when import csv into faceit

[@CGDive]

I can't say. It could be too many things from literally using an invalid file, to blender versions, addon versions, using the wrong feature, etc. etc. Try again. If the problem persists, you can try to share a bug report with the related tool developers.

[@raymondwood5496]

@@CGDive thank you for the reply.. I emailed the faceit developer.. and together with the csv file.. for now I use hallway cubes osc stream function, just worry the load on my pc will be too greats since I use brekel body with 3 kinects for body motion capture and hallway cube for facial motion capture together.. by the way thank you so much for providing such detailed great quality tutorial

[@unknownproductions9879]

I have the same error. Latest version of faceit.

[@raymondwood5496]

@@unknownproductions9879 later I will try the older stable version, currently i am using the beta version, not sure is this the causes

[@Bhuttaanimation]

Dear i am also facing the same issue, please guide if you got the solution@@raymondwood5496

[@hotsauce7124]

Does this work for Rigify 3.22?

[@CGDive]

Not sure. Test it. :)

[@jaim2]

i'm pretty sure rigify doesn't have ARKit Shapes soo...

[@CGDive]

@@jaim2 Oh, it says Rigify. I assumed they meant Blender 3.2

[@jaim2]

@@CGDive yeah i know, but still, rigify (face rig) doesn't have ARKit Shape Keys. oh wait nvm, i realized that it is possible in a paid addon, Faceit.

[@maryadafilms6929]

exe file not in this

[@CGDive]

Not sure what that means. All links work!

[@nuriman432]

THIS IS FREE?

[@CGDive]

Yep 👍 (except for FaceIt)

[@haraldthi]

Apache license. 🙂

[@jonassandstedt]

Wasn't really impressed with the result unfortunately. 90% of your expression was lost in the conversion it looks like. Especially with the eyes.

[@CGDive]

If you expect to get Gollum out of the box without any tweaks, being disappointed is to be expected.

[@danielfirmino3486]

​. As pessoas querem excelentes resultados sem o devido esforço. É o mundo de hoje, triste de ver!