Cheap Facial Capture Using After Effects MatchMover & Maya

Eric Thelander with a nifty little tutorial on building and employing your very own facial capture system. part one deals with capturing the motion form the actor using a home-built rig and an ordinary video camera, part two with preparing and tracking the motion footage with After Effects and MatchMover, and part three shows how to apply the data to a 3D character in Maya.

The tutorial covers how to use a regular digital camera in order to capture the motion of an actor’s face. You will learn how to import and prepare your footage, how to extract the actor’s motion and finally how to apply the motion to a 3D character.