Behind the scenes of Digital Domain’s facial animation process.
Today on the befores & afters podcast, we’re chatting to Digital Domain CTO Hanno Basse about DD’s in-house facial capture tool, Masquerade3. It’s the latest incarnation of the tool, and now features markerless facial capture. This essentially means no need to place physical markers via make-up on the performers’ faces. With Hanno, we talk about the evolution of Masquerade, in particular where machine learning has come into play in making that tool possible.
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Check out the podcast below, and some showcase images of the Masquerade3 tech.
