“Digimation® To Sell Eyematic® FaceStationT, Eyematic’s Professional 3D Facial Animation Toolset
LAS VEGAS, Apr. 8 – Eyematic announced today that Eyematic FaceStation 1.5 is now available for purchase through Digimation, Inc. Eyematic, a leading
provider of visual communication software, made the announcement in conjunction with the release today of FaceStation 1.5. Digimation is Discreet‘s Preferred Plug-in publisher and has developed and distributed graphics software since 1992.
FaceStation 1.5 is the highly anticipated computer vision-based 3D facial animation software suite from Eyematic. FaceStation uses Eyematic’s patented computer vision software engines to automatically recognize and track facial expressions from either a live video camera or pre-recorded video clips. In real-time actual facial expressions are analyzed, captured and used to animate fully shaded 3D models in Discreet™ 3ds max™. No motion capture hardware, facial markers or offline rendering processes are required. Prior to FaceStation, realistic 3D facial animation was limited to a handful of high-end projects with the requisite large budgets.
“FaceStation is the result of over seven years of effort by some of the best researchers and software developers in the world,” said Jim Stewartson, chief technical officer of Eyematic. “We’re pleased to join forces with industry leader Digimation in order to bring FaceStation to market.”
“The computer vision sensing technology in FaceStation is truly remarkable,” said David Avgikos, president of Digimation, Inc. “We believe FaceStation will bring high quality facial animation within the reach of many more artists than ever before possible.”
FaceStation also includes Eyematic Avatar Editor™, allowing the creation of ready-to-animate characters complete with morph targets simply using front and side photographs. The FaceStation 1.5 software suite for Discreet 3ds max is now available through the Digimation web site www.digimation.com as well as through authorized resellers. Here at the National Association of Broadcasters annual trade show, Eyematic also demonstrated a version of FaceStation for Alias | Wavefront® Maya® that will be available this summer.
About Eyematic
Eyematic is a leading provider of advanced visual communications technology for the authoring, delivery and consumption of multimedia applications on mobile and fixed network devices. The Eyematic Synthetic Video platform enables value-added communication, information and entertainment services across cellular phones, mobile handhelds, laptop and desktop computers. Founded in 1997, Eyematic is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in San Francisco and Tokyo. Eyematic’s investors include INTEC Inc., OMRON Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments Inc., TRW Inc. and T-Venture, the corporate venture capital unit of Deutsche Telekom. More information is available at www.eyematic.com.
About Digimation
Digimation, Inc., Discreet’s Preferred Plug-in publisher, has developed and distributed plug-in technology for 3ds maxT as well as stand-alone graphic oriented programs since 1992. Digimation is known for such plug-in technology as Bones Pro, Shag:Hair and Illustrate! 5. Digimation plug-ins can be purchased on the World Wide Web at www.digimation.com or by contacting Digimation at 504-468-7898.
Eyematic is a registered trademark and FaceStation and Avatar Editor are trademarks of Eyematic Interfaces, Inc. Digimation is a registered trademark of Digimation, Inc. Discreet is a division of Autodesk, Inc. Discreet and 3ds max are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. Alias | Wavefront and Maya are registered trademarks of Alias | Wavefront, a division of Silicon Graphics Limited. All other brand names, product names and trademarks belong to their respective holders.”
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