This is insane. If you haven’t seen the facial animation capture from Image Metrics, you need to watch the video below. It’s cg. It’s all cg. Wait for the reveal. Image Metrics has gone above and beyond in their facial cap engineering and here is the proof positive. Actress Emily O’Brien sat for a capture session. I’m wondering what they used to render it. They never seem to mention it.

What really turns me on is that it’s accomplished without using a flock of seagulls or other special markers. That’s the real trick. The software develops the mesh cage based around simple old image capture.