FaceFX Studio Professional 2010 is part of the industry-leading facial animation toolset that has been used in over 150 AAA video game titles and is now being offered on a per-seat basis. This comprehensive solution helps in every stage of creating great facial animation.
Exporting
Using the FaceFX Plugins, you can export bone poses for your character from any of the supported animation packages. With the Ogre exporter, you can export your character's skeleton, mesh, materials, and morph targets from the same packages. Together, these let you view your character and control his rig from within FaceFX Studio.
Rig Setup
FaceFX Studio Professional helps animate practically any kind of facial rig. With native support for bone poses, morph targets, and material parameters, your bases are covered. Choose the one you're most comfortable with, or mix all three for incredible results. You're limited only by your imagination.
FaceFX Studio Professional does not specify which targets to create, either. The audio analysis can use any custom phoneme-to-target mapping. Just specify how the phonemes FaceFX recognizes map to the targets in your rig once for your character, and FaceFX will automatically generate great facial animations for your rig.
Automatic Lipsync
The heart of FaceFX Studio is the automatic audio analysis. The audio analysis recognizes what phonemes were spoken for a clip of audio, then automatically creates weighted-target curves to drive your rig.
The analysis can optionally use the text transcription of the audio for better accuracy, and the ability to use text tags to help add performance and emotion to the character. The text can be in one of seven languages.
Performance Animation
Whatever the quality of the automatic animation, there will be times when your character needs an animator's touch. FaceFX Studio provides powerful tools for the animator. With a curve editor and visual workspaces with sliders, you can tweak the animations to your heart's content while seeing the results on your character in real time.
Multi-track Editing
Build a library of the sub-animations you find yourself using frequently, then blend them into your working animation with the click of a button. Better yet, since FaceFX animations are rig-independent, share them among all your characters! Don't like the way the blink is looking? Fix the blink sub-animation, and all your animations update automatically.
Powerful Scripting
FaceFX is completely command driven. For every action you can perform with your keyboard and mouse, there's a corresponding command to automate that task. Coupled with a powerful Python integration, practically anything is possible. Write a simple exporter to your in-house file format, or completely replace the coarticulation algorithm. All the hooks you need are there!
Importing
Once your animations are complete, bring them back into the package of your choice with the FaceFX Plugins. Advanced scripting access lets you modify the default importing behavior.