If I remember correctly the only thing that AD added was the lipsync tool...then nothing else....really a shame, but at least it was included inside Softimage instead of paying 90k$ for this software.
And by the way, those tech demo are two in probably thousand were people actually put time and effort to develop it further, but as a solution out of the box its not so friendly...and over the years many alternatives start popping up, from Max, Maya and Soft itself right now there are choices, while since FR was one of the first to try to put it "easy" Again, such a shame, it'll be buried together with Softimage 2014-05-27 14:22 GMT+02:00 Mirko Jankovic <[email protected]>: > Absolutely true, but again keep in mind that ever since it was included in > SI it haven't bin touched. Not really :) > Ofc it is not first nor last piece of software that ended up as dead end. > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Nicolas Esposito <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Blur tech demo was quite impressive ( 2009 Dante's Inferno )...by it was >> customized as well....Jawanimation tech demo ( 2011 ) is pretty damn good, >> but then again customized using ICE...I saw lots and lots of people just >> build their own facial rig rather then using FR because of the jerky >> workflow >> >> >> 2014-05-27 14:14 GMT+02:00 Mirko Jankovic <[email protected]>: >> >> OP? >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Marco Peixoto <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I got be honest here.. I never saw anything "Jaw Droping" from FR... im >>>> not saying that amazing work wasnt done with it because it was, but nothing >>>> that would make it stand on its own, always found the Falcon examples to >>>> look more like a Rubber face than real tissue and muscles moving. >>>> >>>> The demo present by the OP is far more impressive than anything I had >>>> seen with FR. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Mirko Jankovic < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Face robot is as already mentioned couple years old. NEVER touched by >>>>> anyone later to improve, or even build something similar on top of it with >>>>> newtech and better integration. >>>>> But even that slow at the time it was good solution and gave amount of >>>>> detail that no one else had before. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Nicolas Esposito <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Email sent, waiting for an answer, I'll keep you guys updated >>>>>> >>>>>> Regarding Facerobot yes, its slow and there are some stupid issues >>>>>> which cause so many problems that lots of people just can't stand it >>>>>> anymore after a while...too bad that AD never improved the technology. >>>>>> >>>>>> Well, in Soft Gear is a pretty damn good alternative, too bad there's >>>>>> no lipsync option for that, which comes handy >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> 2014-05-27 13:19 GMT+02:00 pedro santos <[email protected]>: >>>>>> >>>>>> That said. We don't know the requirements of this one? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
