Polywink offer online tools to create blendshapes and rigs for facial animation

Eisko Services have rebranded themselves as Polywink to offer a suite of online tools for 3D facial animation that automatically generates blendshapes and rigs. 3 services are available:

Firstly, Blendshapes on Demand automatically generates over 150 blendshapes for an uploaded model that are adapted to its morphology and topology. Polywink claim that the service works equally well for scanned heads as well as cartoon characters. The resultant blendshapes are delivered as an FBX file compatible with most major applications.

Secondly, Rig on Demand provides an automatic rigging algorithm to generates a full facial rig for Maya based on over 200 blendshapes. The rigged character comes with flexible, custom 2D controllers and suitable for offline and real-time animation.

Thirdly and finally, Animation for iPhone X generates a set of 51 blendshapes that are required for ARKit facial animation, making it an easy and accessible service to quickly animate characters and create Animoji with an iPhone X. Users can also request a rigged version of their character in a Maya scene in case they wish to import the result and fine-tune the details.

Find out more and download samples from the Polywink website.