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What is Faceware iClone?

Reallusion’s partnership with Faceware enables iClone 7 to achieve real-time facial motion capture and recording. This will empower indies and studios of all levels, giving them access to facial motion capture tools that are fast, accurate and markerless—all from a PC webcam.

Key Features of Faceware iClone

Calibrate in One-Second

Use any PC Camera to create animation in iClone

Easily edit-and-polish your data after capture

Compatible with industry standard characters

Distinguishing Features of Realtime for iClone

Tracking Inspector

Instant, dynamic feedback. These meters let you view your animation data in real time. Observe the relationship between your facial performance and the real-time data stream and adjust the result.

Custom Capture Profiles

Define your own expression style with facial muscle sliders and save it as a Custom Capture Profile. Default 60-morph capture profiles are optimized for StaticCam and HeadCam tracking models. You can further take advantage of the Search function to quickly access sliders!

Feature-Based Filters

Globally or separately control the signal input strength for brows, eyelids, eyeballs, mouth, jaw, cheek, and head rotation. Easily capture stylized characters with proper strength settings for toning down or exaggerating features. Save settings for characters.

Face Key Timeline

Edit face capture performances in post with the iClone facial timeline. Access the motion clip track to edit & offset with face keys. Expression Intensity control through slider bars.

Fast, Accurate, Markerless Facial Tracking

With Realtime for iClone and the iClone Motion LIVE Plug-in for Faceware, you can now create, record, and edit facial animation in iClone 7 extremely easily. Capture your facial expressions using a web cam, GoPro, Mark IV Headcam, or any standard PC camera. Alternatively, you can use an image sequence for finer control over the performance.

Easily Adjust Camera Settings For Optimal Performance

Realtime for iClone gives you access to any camera connected to your PC. Once a camera is selected, you can easily adjust settings such as video resolution and FPS to get the optimal performance from both your camera and the software. We recommend capturing your face at a minimum of 30 FPS (frames per second) though 60 FPS is ideal! You’ll get higher fidelity lip sync animation at a higher FPS. We also recommend keeping the resolution at or below 720p for optimal use. Many people will find that the 640×480 resolution is more than enough.

Fast and Simple Calibration

Calibrating the technology to your face is an important part of how Realtime for iClone works. Calibration establishes a baseline by ‘teaching’ the technology what your face looks like in a neutral pose. Unlike other tracking software, calibration in Realtime for iClone is fast and simple, allowing you to train the technology in a single button press and adjust on-the-fly for optimal results. In the video tutorials created by Reallusion, you can see how Calibrating in slightly different poses might give you enhanced results in iClone.

Compatible with Industry Standard 3D Characters

iClone 7 Characters made by Character Creator has updated with 60 face morphs, fully optimized for Faceware tracking data. For Daz Genesis, characters generation 1, 2, 3, and 8, auto-conversion tools and 60 face morph DUF profiles are provided.

Distinguishing Features of iClone

Mocap System Lync

Shepherd’s Mocap System Lync puts your body mocap system in control of Shepherd’s face capture system. Lync unifies your Vicon, Xsens or Optitrack System with your Faceware Headcams enabling unprecedented control of your mocap shoot. This is the mocap feature you didn’t know you were waiting for.

Smart Functionality

By combining the various functions associated with facial motion capture and centralizing them into a single application, Shepherd integrates the data and options you need most in one program.

Custom Channel Identifier

Exclusive for the Ki Pro Ultra Plus, Shepherd now offers Custom Channel Identifiers for all your multi-channel recording needs. Meant for teams who utilize Ki Pro Ultra Plus multi-channel settings, Channel Identifiers allows you to append your own unique attribute schema to any series of takes for easier identification and customization.

Tablet Integration

Shepherd runs on Windows 10 devices, including tablets. Now you have the flexibility to control your face capture shoot literally in the palm of your hands. Untether yourself from your workstation and take charge on your own terms.