Universal capture: image-based facial animation for "The Matrix Reloaded"

The VFX R&D stage for The Matrix Reloaded was kicked off in January 2000 with the challenge to create realistic human faces. We believed that traditional facial animation approaches like muscle deformers or blend shapes would simply never work, both ...

In creating the Pepsi "Dance Tron" commercial (accepted to the 2007 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival), Method Studios combined motion capture with motion control in a novel manner. Following a pre-shoot motion capture session with breakdancers, we ...

Creating a high quality blendshape rig usually involves a large amount of effort from skilled artists. Although current 3D reconstruction technologies are able to capture accurate facial geometry of the actor, it is still very difficult to build a ...