FaceIt Tutorial 1: Facial Mocap & ShapeKeys addon [Blender] 

❖Get FaceIt: blendermarket.com/products/faceit/?ref=356 RELATED RESOURCES: ❖Get the start blend file for free: gum.co/cgdive_free ❖Get additional bonuses related to this video: gum.co/faceit_tutorials ❖Apple ARKit guide developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/arfaceanchor/blendshapelocation ❖FaceIt Official Docs: faceit-doc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/support/ ❖The original 3d Model used in this video, created by Nadiia Plaunova: sketchfab.com/3d-models/barbarian-real-time-game-character-5bfda9b6193c434db40b4435b822b8c3

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Thank you greatly for this tutorial series, cant wait for the non-realistic characters part. After buying this addon last year, I was sorely disappointed in the documentation and it's inability to work with non-realistic characters at that time. So very glad to see the addon has made great strives and improvements and cant wait to incorporate it into my pipeline.

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Thank you so much you are a real life saver. And what you do very well is that you consciously problems that can arise when what does not run perfectly, which is almost always so, and show and offer solutions for it. Really mega !!! keep it up!

Appreciate your comprehensive guide here! Looking forward to future faceit videos ✌

you have a very detailed description of the actions. thanks

amazing tutorial as always

Thank you, Todor. Love your tutorials. I was looking foward for this one.

Yes! Finally a tutorial on faceit! Thank you so much 💓

Thanks! cant wait tll the next ones, you are such a brilliant tutor!

Thanks very much! Everything is concisely explained.

I’ve been waiting for a video like this, thank you!

Thank you so much!!! for this awesome tutorial, I'm adding it as a button above my awesome facecap performance editing features On my MOCAP panel in my biggest add on in the world(codewise)... Best chapter design I've ever seen

Thank you for pointing out the Mouth close expression, that it is how it should!

Thank you very much!! I was needing a quik face rig and I was trying Rigify but was crashing when binding (w automatic weights) since I´ve got some vertex really close (and I cant merge them) and this bind the mesh without any complain summatory is an anamazing addon with a lot of features, thank for sharing the entire process!

Really really appreciate your hard work. I have it but didn’t use it a lot. But your tutorial makes me this add on so comfortable! Thank you again!

This has to be God sent😭😂.. been looking for a tutorial that explains the face it pipeline properly and this was it. Thanks a lot bro💯

I’m hype that you are doing this. Hopefully it will keep the dev motivated!

Can't wait of the next tutorials

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i hope this series continues, itd be nice to see how you handle stylized models with faceit , especially stylized face shapes for toony characters where eyes arnt perfectly round or oval

Another great content! Thank you!

The most detailed and comprehensive explanation, I was so shocked ,

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Thank you so much for creating this Todor! I love it! :)

Helpful! Thank you CGDIVE!

can't wait for the more cartoony one. i want to see how you rig an anime face with this addon. keep it up man!

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awesome tutorial, I was always wanted to get deep into face mocap, thank you for this tutorial, hoping to see more。

Thank you so much for making this series of Faceit tutorials, i've been struggling so much to find a face rig solution.

Thank you very much! Your tutorials are very long, but that's a good thing, because the topic isn't exactly easy either. All these addons are not easy to use :)

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Works really well. Thank you very much.

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wow your results from FaceCap are way better than what I've gotten from Rokoko! Rokoko's face cap has so much shakiness in it and takes tons of cleanup

One of my best investments. What a big help ! Thank you for your tutorial as it really good to follow and prevents me from making beginner mistakes using faceit. Great stuff 😁😋🎩

thank you for this

Great overview for an awesome addon. I also love how Fynn, the developer, handles the support on discord - very helpful and professional. One important feature you've skipped (so far) is the ability to retarget/remap existing blendshapes to the ARKit blendshapes in the "Target Shape" section of the "Shapes" tab. For example, I have a character that was equipped with Rod237 blendshapes that do not follow the official ARKit naming conventions and where occasionally multiple combined blendshapes are corresponding to a single ARKit blendshapes. With this add-on, I was able to easily remap them and thus create the facial control rig for my character using the existing blendshapes.

This one looks sick. A little bit of setup, but once done, have a lot done for you.

I needed this video. Thank you.

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It's a very helpful video and I can't wait to watch Chapter 3

grabbed tons of little tips!!! thnk u so much. Wish this add on was more popular so they would reduce the price… but completely recommend!!!! Also, can confirm that they work in UE exactly as they do in blender. Insanely useful :) doing the 52 shapes by hand now feels like traveling by donkey

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This is the best tutorial for this add on! Should be on their documentation now lol

Thank you so much , you teaching verry eassy to understand, Im usesing rokoko mocap iPhone, do this good working with that mocap

Thanks so much !! That's great! Is the second part about the body is coming soon? Very good work by the way. Bravo

I was waiting for this tutorial thanks to use with autorig pro

great video

I'm waiting for the continuation!!!

Thanks for this

I want to say, you are a great instructor...love your work. I would like to ask- once you set up your facial rig and you APPEND your character to another file for the scene, my facial rig degrades such as- the syncing (the video and audio lengths are way off) and the face-it controls won't stay with rig. Is this common?

Fantastic video, thanks for this. If I don't want shape keys, but actually want the expressions as an animation keyframe, can I just not bake and export the pose instead?

I found out that the best way to tweak the shapes in Expression view is to correct the Faceit rig bone weights with weight painting

Hey, this is fantastic, thanks so much. I've been using faceit with human generator v4 (beta) and skipping some steps (probably explained in your next video) I've been able to get OK results - I believe your next video will explain this, as it's using rigify, but it's also very easy to break the HG rig when binding etc (maybe not supposed to?) anyhow, I just define the mesh group, align, and create the control rig which has worked (ignoring some middle steps and fine tuning) - of course I am probably losing some functionality! Would be super cool if you can touch upon HG in your next video's coverage/rigify applications, would very much appreciate it! Anyhow with this video, I feel like I'll already get better results to start with. Cheers!

Greetings, my Great Teacher! Your lesson, as always, is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! They are very important to us! Question - after I attach FaceIT to the bone of the head, the eyes begin to repeat the movement of the head, they only look straight, how do I fix this?

Do you have any tutorial that shows how to connect Faceit to link live face app to live action mocap? Really thx for your tutorials! You’re great!

Wow this makes things a lot easier now, thank you for this tutorial! I have a question: after having the control rig (which controls the shape keys with drivers) how can I export these shape keys changes?

Your videos are platinum. I can't wait for the next video. Baking to a Control Rig allows you to have very good control over the face animation. I wonder if it's possible to rebake a third party mocap animation from shape keys (eg rokoko) into a Control Rig animation. Maybe "Shape Key Retargeter FBX" can help with that.? This question is similar to RainSoxx and you answered it, but if Faceit can convert data from FaceCap to rig keys, Maybe there will be a tool that can transfer Shape Key animation to rig keys.

Hello thank you for all if your helpful tutorials. I was wondering is it possible to still add shape keys to the characters face after the faceit rigging process? I want to add visemes from daz as a shape key to the face for clean up purposes on my mocap performance

Fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much. I ran into a problem at the bake stage. Everything looks great when at the Expressions tab, all the movements look great on every part of the face, but when I bake, the eyelashes, teeth, tongue don't move. But if I go ahead and create a control rig after baking, all parts of the face do move with the control rig, but if I disconnect that rig, and try using the Shape Keys, the eyelashes, etc, don't move. All the parts that don't move after baking are listed in the Objects section of the bake tab by the way. Any idea what I did wrong. Many thanks.

Thank you for the video, very valuable information. What settings did you set for the beard hair cards (Blend Mode, Shadow Mode) ?

Thank you for simplifying the process! Much appreciated. One question, does this work well with Human Generator?

This is fabulous, would this setup work with Nutcracker Jaw mechanics?

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Hey can you pleas cover how to use multiple target shapes on specific bones and not as just another custom controler in Face it 2.3.1 please?

Can you teach us how to bake the animation after recording and importing the Live Link Face mocap? Then can you teach us how to save it and how to open the baked animation to append it onto another new Blend file character? Right now I am using Human Generator rig + Faceit rig. I am not using the Human Generation facial rig (52 arkit shapekeys). I did the setup of objects, landmarks, rig, and expressions from scratch as if I didn't have any prior existing facial rigs or shapekeys. I then use the Join to Body Armature function to connect the Facial and body rig. The Blender Info Log shows that it was joined successfully however I ran into an issue when retargeting body animations using ARP and Rokoko addon. The mesh stretches throughout specific parts of the animation (For example the inner mouthbag, nooks and crevices, and tongue mesh breaks through the face mesh, or the eyelashes stretch and look like spider legs, etc. Do you know why that is and how can I fix it?

Hi Todor, thanks for your great tutorial. Just wondering why I have been getting Python errors when assigning Face Main? Would that be the versions I use?

There is so much information to learn from. Can the ControlRig be used to modify the ShapeKeys ? Many Thanks.

how to export? tongue, mouthclose shapekeys fail. Also eyes and teeth don't move only face moves

The iphone face capture is nice, but it is jittery. Is there a way to remove this jitter afterwards and make it as smooth as metahuman for instance?

Thanks.... I hope it won't take too long for next video....

THX for tutorial! But i would like to ask you something. 16:45 Why the field with this option is not there for me? Where can i find it to put here? I serached the internet for more information on this subject, and i have not found this option there, others had the same shown as me. I only saw it in your tutorial.

great tutorial! But at 43:15 set child of is not woring for me. I first select main rig in object mode, then select pose mode I click on set child of but it doesn't work.

super nice .. yo T can this auto rig pro mixed with faceit be imported to ue?! i tried it but the face goes craaazzyyy .. 😢

Your videos are very interesting and thank you very much. I have a question. Even if everything is correct in the order you have presented, head bone and face it addon cannot be combined (Set Child of) (43.11) If you can please solve this for me.

Also at the Time of Baking there is an Armature which is unchecked and that of Faceit which is checked. Consider that My Character has its own Face Rig. And this face rig is what it will be imported back with along with the Faceit shapekeys. Should I bake with both? Or Should I bake only the Faceit and the Bone from the Original Rig will adjust to the Faceit mesh changes?

Thanks a lot bro..I searched on RU-vid to know details about faceit addon for a couple of weeks. but I couldn't find... thanks for this.... And please tell me how to join faceit addon with mixamo rig in the next video...

Hello friend, I would like to know if you have a video where you talk about the expression presets, in particular there is a function that provides the option to use the CC3 and CC4 shape convention and it seems to me that it allows adapting the names of the ARkit to this convention of CC4 but I'm not sure and that's what I need to do

Thank you very much for this beautiful video. but i have a problem. In my character, eyebrows and beard are separate objects and they do not move. Please help.

Thanks for the tuto, but i had a problem with shape keys unfortunately, when i try to slide the eye blink, the eyelash mesh doesn't follow for some reason !! any fix for that ?

Is it possible to work with Faceit and Auto rig pro together to connect the face and body?

Hi @CGDive, I don't know if you'll even get to see this but I have to try, I need a tutorial or at least a dumb down level on how to properly rig and weight painting the eye lids with Auto rig pro, I have been stuck with this for months, I tried following following your auto rig full body tutorial but yo didn't dell much on the eyelids, and you used a realistic character, mine is stylised so the proportions are a bit different, I will really appreciate your Assistance on this, thank you

Thank you very much for the tutorial, I followed the process of your tutorial, I loaded audio and text in mocap, clicked import, the shape key to control the face c_jaw_target disappeared, probably what is the possible reason, I hope to get your help

Hi, is this an addon you would recommend if you're looking to transfer your character to Unreal 5? I've watched several of your videos that showed how to move bone rigs to Unreal, particularly the ones for Game Rig Tools (which I've purchased). Would GRT work with FaceIt as well? Thanks!