The technology captured an actor's performance on video, analyzed it, and mapped it onto a CG model. In 2008, Image Metrics offered a beta version of its facial animation technology to visual effects and film studios. Image Metrics, founded in 2000, is a provider of facial animation and motion capture technology within the video game and entertainment industries. Faceware won the XDS Gary Award in 2016 for its contributions to the Faceware-EA presentation at the 2016 XDS Summit. Faceware received Best of Show recognition at the Game Developers Conference 2011 in San Francisco as well as Computer Graphics World's Silver Edge Award at SIGGRAPH 20. It won the Develop Award again for Creative Contribution: Visuals in 2014. Through its application in the video game industry, Faceware won the Develop Award while it was still part of Image Metrics for Technical Innovation in 2008. įaceware software is used by film studios and video game developers including Rockstar Games, Bungie, Cloud Imperium Games, and 2K in games such as Grand Theft Auto V, Destiny, Star Citizen, and Halo: Reach. The software line includes Faceware Analyzer, Faceware Retargeter, and Faceware Live. įaceware produces software used to capture an actor's performance and transfer it onto an animated character, as well as the hardware needed to capture the performances.

The company was established under Image Metrics and became its own company at the beginning of 2012. American company Faceware Technologies Formerlyįacial Animation and Motion Capture (MoCap) Technologyįaceware Technologies is an American facial animation and motion capture development company.

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