I read back then that someone even tried using the lenses from a cheap set of drug store glasses to magnify the the Kinect lenses to do better closeups for face capture. From what I understood before, the Kinect does not have a shorter minimum distance like the Asus, so it is not well suited for face capture, more for wide angle full body views. They have the Asus Xtion Pro now for $170 where all other stores are asking over $200. I don’t have a sensor camera now, I only tried the Asus Xtion out and then returned it within 30 days to NewEgg. Same with the newer Faceshift version having improvements. I tried the trial version about two years ago or so with the Asus Xtion, not their newer model Xtion Pro which has some improvements as well as adding USB 3.

I like Faceshift out of everything out there for markerless mocap.

The freelance version is more expensive, but if it lands you paid jobs, it’ll be amortized very quickly. For toying around and experimenting, it’s very affordable and worth every penny. So provided you have a matching target rig, it allows for much more subtle acting.Īt last, with the aforementionned plugin, it’s now a blast to use in C4D while it used to be very convoluted due to C4D lack of good FBX support (no morphs were coming through, only bones).Īs for the price, I’m using the non-commercial version at the moment. Then it tracks all those FACS morphs in real time to recreate every single deformation of your face (eyes, eyelids, cheeks, jaw, nose, brows, lips…). A side effect of that is that you can get a decent virtual clone of yourself in a pinch. It may not be obvious on my example, but Faceshift does much more than head, lip and eyebrow tracking with the kinect sdk.įirst it scans your face and retargets it to a custom avatar with the 42 usual FACS morph targets. Brekel kinect and Faceshift are really in two different leagues.

Faceshift studio kinect