TLOU2 Face Rig

oglu

This is beyond everything. 

https://twitter.com/wasim_cg/status/1279288006734561281?s=20

pasha_sevez

2019 blenshapes!

Spec :
mesh res – 20K
Target Count – 2019 shapes
Joint Count – 350
with this new rig I was trying to preserve legacy workflow (channel box attributes) at the same time introducing face controls(both have pros/cons). its achieved with proxy attributes/alias attributes. 2/

— Wasim Khan (@wasim_cg) July 4, 2020

oglu

More rigging fun.

https://twitter.com/wasim_cg/status/1280764268703408134?s=20

Alex_J

wow. I dont really understand what he is saying in the tweet about how the rig is learning where muscles are or something? Is it some sort of logic that is reading where repeated deformation is or something?

throttlekitty

Sounds like the next iteration of this tool that uses machine learning to figure out skin deformations based on blendshapes, real real real cool stuff. https://vimeo.com/238190856

Hans Godard posted this two years ago and while it looks great, the joint placements weren't so much. Seeing much smarter placement in their current system so they can use it for more than canned animations. I would buy this plugin in an instant.

thomasp

Ah yes, that name rings a bell. Didn't he try to release some tool to convert blendshapes into bone animation sometime after UC4 but was shut down by his employer? I was assuming that the cloth animation they have in the game was done with that kind of method.

oglu

More good stuff. 

Justo

I'm loving this new AI-or-whatever-computed lip sync tech. I first heard of it being used with FFVIIR. It's quite jarring with today's amazing visuals when a person's mouth moves clearly being synced to another language (Ghost of Tsushima y u no japanese lip sync  ). This sort of thing is a big necessity.

The idea of having pre-set emotions and being able to flip them on/off for any dialogue is genius!

Offtopic here but, I'd love to be told how and why I'm wrong: the way the arm's bending here seems a little off imo..