Finally, it was here. The webcam and Faceware. I was about to crest the plateau into facial motion capture. And I was doing it without looking like something from a bad sci fi movie. No special suit, no special rig mounted to the head. Just good old redneck webcamming to see for myself what this thing called Faceware plug-in for iClone was capable of.
When you are an animator there are so many i's to dot and t's to cross that by the time you get around to animating the facial expressions... you are exhausted. And possibly burned out a bit. It makes you wonder why you ever thought it was a good idea to become an animator. So many things to do and so little time to do them just compounded the frustration.
Facial animation was like the step child of an iClone project. It got lip service and very little else. Once a robust facial system was established it got even more complex and at times... tedious. We needed a facial capture system... that works. There was a lot of big talk, some hype and the usual forum based hyperbole so I was a bit uneasy as I installed Faceware and the iClone plug-in.
I was pleasantly surprised to see how easy Faceware was to setup and activate. I installed a Logitech C922 Pro Streaming camera on my Windows 10 desktop and Faceware recognized it with no problems. Faceware operation is straightforward. It tells you if it connected to iClone and you must Calibrate which seems to be no big deal. Hold still a few seconds and your closed mouth expression/pose is matched up to the onscreen iClone avatar.
Upon first use I noticed was it being anything but smooth and a glance over at the capture window on Faceware showed a dismal frame rate of 14 to 15... if I was lucky. To be fair I was sitting in a rather dark studio with minimal lighting as I did not have my video lights on. I was also backlit... another no-no if you are looking for fps. I just plopped the C922 on top of monitor and pointed it at me, so when you consider how ill prepared I was, the software was coping quite well. That little feeling of despair lightened up a bit.
I grabbed one of video lights and of course 3 out of 4 batteries were dead but all I needed was one to see how much brighter lighting would increase the frame rate. I stuffed the one working battery into a 4 X 3 desktop LCD video light and unceremoniously stuck it in front of me but not behind the camera as it probably should be.
Glanced over and the framerate had doubled to the 30s!!! With just one light. Of course, that light was so bright shining right into my face that I couldn't see you-know-what, but it was enough to know that proper placement with a couple of lights... a direct light and a key light to fight the shadows from the former light would solve the problem. I was in a good place now. Framerate could be managed. Particularly when you consider I am using an $85 (US) streaming webcam for this test. I deliberately did not get one of the recommended cameras as I wanted to see how it worked on an average webcam.
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