LAS VEGAS – Face2Face Animation (www.f2fanimation.com) today announced that it has developed a facial animation plug-in for Apple QuickTime V.6.
Based on the Face2Face player, a real-time streaming MPEG-4 authoring technology, the plug-in enables QuickTime 6 developers and users to create and distribute high-quality, 30 frames per second facial characters with realistic lip-sync. The plug-in is available for download today at the Web site.
Face2Face animation will also extend its QuickTime plug-in support to its partnership with Kaydara, which markets the Kaydara FBX ™ file interchange format, one of the most popular digital content interchange formats. Through FBX, which has been integrated with QuickTime, the player will enable animators to create high-quality, low-cost facial animations directly from digital video output or semi-automatically generate a face model from a single image of a face, along with perfect lip-sync.
Using the face2face MPEG-4 authoring tools, face models can be animated semi-automatically from regular digital video capture, and created from a single still image of a face.
