Single Mesh Technology

Geometric Informatics' single mesh technology allows a single animating mesh of a real person's face to be created using data from our real-time 3d camera. The points on the mesh follow the exact movement of the skin.

The result is a highly realistic animation that is taken from real-time surface captured data. What you see is what you get. The data is not modelled or touched up in any way. It is produced automatically. This saves months of modeling and animation time.

The actor sits in front of our real-time 3d camera and acts out facial expressions (speech, smiling, anger).

No markers are needed on the actor's face, although applying a white powder improves the quality.

We can use any topology for the single mesh; the demos use one with roughly 2500 points.

We can eliminate all rigid head motion if required.

About one hour's manual work is needed per two minutes of footage. We currently do this manual work ourselves.

The data is processed overnight by our computers and is ready the next day.

Typical output is a sequence of .obj files, although we can deliver in a variety of formats.

Extras, such as normal maps and a single color texture, can be also supplied if required.

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