Services

Facial Mocap
We provide on-location facial mocap shoots using Embody Capture/HMR. We will send our equipment and technicians to your location and manage the details of the facial mocap process. Multiple Embody Capture/HMR units can operate simultaneously with full-body mocap systems, allowing you to capture facial and full-body performances simultaneously. Alternatively, we offer the use of our Embody Capture/Studio system at our studio in Phoenix, Arizona.

Tracking
We will track facial mocap video from a shoot to create facial mocap animations. Each facial mocap animation is exported as an animated mesh that represents the facial motion of the actor. The mesh topology is coherent across all frames of the animation, and each vertex includes both a position and a normal. The tracked facial mocap animation can be provided for use directly in your pipeline. Use this service to handle all of your tracking needs, or to augment your own internal tracking capacity.

Retargeting
We offer services to retarget facial mocap animations exported from Embody Tracker or from 3rd party facial mocap systems in C3D or TRC formats. We can do all of your retargeting work, just the retargeting work that you are too busy to handle yourself, or we can augment your existing staff to help you finish your retargeting work faster.

We can retarget your facial mocap animations to your characters using either the retarget-to-rig or retarget-to-mesh methods. We can also handle facial rigging and skinning, if required. The resulting animation will then be provided to you using your choice of 3D package and file format.

If you have existing C3D or TRC facial mocap animation, then we can leverage our Embody Animation tools to improve the quality of retargeted facial animation to provide a greater return on investment from your facial mocap animation. Our retargeting services are quick and affordable, so we may be able to reduce your retargeting costs, as well.

Advanced Lip-syncing
With our advanced lip-syncing service, we can provide phoneme-accurate lip-syncing between a mocap performance and an alternate voice-over performance. This is useful when the dialog is recorded independently from the mocap performance, such as when the mocap actor and the voice actor differ.

We perform a detailed analysis on the audio from the mocap performance and the voice-over performance. Then, we determine an appropriate alignment between the two vocal performances. This requires aligning the sentences, words, and phonemes of the two vocal performances. We also must account for inconsistencies, as each vocal performance will differ slightly in timing, tone, and even dialog (e.g. if the actor flubs a line).

Once we have identified an alignment between the two vocal performances, we use time-scaling to resynchronize the mocap animation to be aligned with the voice-over performance. This process produces great results when mocap actors provide solid performances and hit their lines, but quality lip-synced animations can often be produced even when dealing with substantial differences between vocal performances.

Training and Support
We offer on-site training services to help get you up and running with Embody products quickly, to help you learn how to get the most out of your investment, and to help you keep everything running smoothly.

Custom Solutions
We can work with you to provide customized solutions that leverage Embody technology to meet the unique demands of your projects.