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Worth noting that the guys at www.3D-Avatar-Store.com are former VFX pipeline developers offering auto-creation of photo-real 3D heads, just supply one facial p

Worth noting that the guys at www.3D-Avatar-Store.com are former VFX pipeline developers offering auto-creation of photo-real 3D heads, just supply one facial photo and you get a fully rigged head ready to stick on any body.

thenomad 13y ago
Ooh, very interesting, thanks. Always extremely interested to hear about tools that are simplifying the content creation pipeline.
ykl 13y ago
But, of course, that assumes that the rig for the hand matches whatever rigging system your pipeline currently uses. If you've got a hand rigged with a skeleton based system (see: every IK/FK system under the sun), but your pipeline uses a fully deformer based rigging system (see: Pixar's system), that hand is still no good to you. Once you start going down the CG pipeline rabbit hole, you begin to realize just how far it goes.
delinka 13y ago
What do I need to do to get pricing from the 3D Avatar Store people?
- bsenftner 13y ago
  If it's for commercial use, use the contact form. Otherwise, its 3 free for noncommercial web site use upon joining and low pricing, like $2.50 a pop, thereafter. WebAPI use is considered commercial, has many more features, and a boatload more for release soon. So use the contact form for for WebAPI. Disclosure: I'm the founder. Here's an example of what we're hustling to make public: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vewo3j3k6326fn/Obama%20Auto-lip-sync.mov https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vewo3j3k6326fn/Obama%20Auto-lip-s...
  - thenomad 13y ago
    I don't mean to be rude here, but "If it's for commercial use, use the contact form." kind of says to me "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". Is that an accurate hypothesis on my part? I make indie animation, but it's not all non-commercial.
    - bsenftner 13y ago
      We're a small company, and want to provide a quality service. Any commercial use will undoubtedly require some level of support, and we want to assess those getting commercial access to insure we can support them successfully. We're not expensive by any means. We just don't want to be flooded and then have to tell users we're overwhelmed. Plain and simple.

thenomad 13y ago

Ooh, very interesting, thanks. Always extremely interested to hear about tools that are simplifying the content creation pipeline.

ykl 13y ago

But, of course, that assumes that the rig for the hand matches whatever rigging system your pipeline currently uses. If you've got a hand rigged with a skeleton based system (see: every IK/FK system under the sun), but your pipeline uses a fully deformer based rigging system (see: Pixar's system), that hand is still no good to you. Once you start going down the CG pipeline rabbit hole, you begin to realize just how far it goes.

delinka 13y ago

What do I need to do to get pricing from the 3D Avatar Store people?

bsenftner 13y ago
If it's for commercial use, use the contact form. Otherwise, its 3 free for noncommercial web site use upon joining and low pricing, like $2.50 a pop, thereafter. WebAPI use is considered commercial, has many more features, and a boatload more for release soon. So use the contact form for for WebAPI. Disclosure: I'm the founder. Here's an example of what we're hustling to make public: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vewo3j3k6326fn/Obama%20Auto-lip-sync.mov https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vewo3j3k6326fn/Obama%20Auto-lip-s...
- thenomad 13y ago
  I don't mean to be rude here, but "If it's for commercial use, use the contact form." kind of says to me "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". Is that an accurate hypothesis on my part? I make indie animation, but it's not all non-commercial.
  - bsenftner 13y ago
    We're a small company, and want to provide a quality service. Any commercial use will undoubtedly require some level of support, and we want to assess those getting commercial access to insure we can support them successfully. We're not expensive by any means. We just don't want to be flooded and then have to tell users we're overwhelmed. Plain and simple.