#facial expression capture

Apple’s iPhone X could make realistic game avatars a lot easier to make

“When the iPhone X first came out, everyone had fun using the device’s front-facing camera to make Animoji. But it turns out, the device’s facial capture abilities aren’t just good for making cartoon pigs sing,” Andrew Webster writes for The Verge. “They could also potentially be a powerful and inexpensive tool for game developers.”

“Finnish studio Next Games, which is currently…

“A tech demo video by VFX artist Elisha Hung shows how data from the iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera system could be used to animate 3D characters and objects in a CGI movie,” Benjamin Mayo reports for 9to5Mac.

“Apple gives developers access to the same face mesh that Animoji uses to animate pigs, rabbits and piles of poo,” Mayo reports. “The data streaming from the iOS API can be…