We have some great news to announce. The Evolver technology purchased by Autodesk has been re-released as Project Pinocchio. This is great news for FaceFX developers. Project Pinocchio has high quality characters ready to animate, and the price is right: absolutely free.

We've created a Text to Animation Demo to demonstrate how FaceFX technology can be used to generate animations dynamically for a text-to-speech enabled web application. Just load the demo and type into the text boxes on the left and hit enter. The text you typed will be spoken back to you by the appropriate character. You can create an entire conversation and create a link to it to share with friends.
You can't use FaceFX Studio Professional to generate animations on a server, but we are looking into creating a new server-based product.

An update is available to FaceFX 2013. Anyone using FaceFX should be notified of the new version the next time they start the application. New customers can download the no-save evaluation, which has been updated.

A list of the issues that were resolved can be found here.

We have some great news for you: FaceFX 2013 is released, and we've reduced the price to $899 per seat!

We need your help!

We are putting the final touches on FaceFX 2013, but before we release, we need feedback on the new FBX workflow.

Just create an FBX file with your bones and morph targets keyed on the correct frames (specify the target names and frame numbers in a batch export text file like the one in the Samples/Src directory), then drag it onto FaceFX Studio 2013.

Need help with rigging, character setup, or FaceFX animation work? NarraSoft has a large staff of professional animators that can help!

Come check out what's new with FaceFX in San Francisco next week at the Game Developers Conference!

(Update! FaceFX is now $899 all the time, so the 50% discount off of the $1995 price mentioned below is old news!)

Not ready for the holidays? Well this should get you in the mood! In honor of Christmas, Festivus, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Years Eve (alphabetically ordered), for the entire month of December, OC3 Entertainment is offering 50% off FaceFX Studio Professional purchases to all Unity Pro users.

Just send us your Unity Pro license invoice number to info (at) oc3ent.com and put "December Unity Sale" in the subject line and we'll send you instructions on how to proceed.

An update to FaceFX 2012 has been released. FaceFX 2012 plugin users can install the latest Tools and Evaluation installer to get access to the new plugins. FaceFX Studio Professional users will be notified of the free update from inside of FaceFX Studio Professional 2012 application.

New Features

• Plugins can now save and open XML files
• The full path to the audio file is accessible from the plugin script function: fxgetaudiopath

Bugfixes

It's been a big year for facial animation. L.A. Noire brought character realism to the forefront of the industry and raised the bar for video games as a storytelling medium. But Team Bondi's new approach offered no silver bullet for most character animators. The game is built around a new technology that while impressive, is not flexible, scalable, or affordable enough to impact the industry as a whole. Facial animation is regrettably as stubborn of a problem as it ever was.