Face Cap - Motion Capture

I’ve been using this app for 4 years and it’s been consistently excellent. I run a small animation studio, I teach with this app, and I love supporting small businesses as well. This app is so useful because it records FBXs & WAVs from voice actors without any fuss, making it easy for a technical animator to work with the data. Niels consistently responds to questions promptly and even supported my students in the MIT MITES program last year. Long live Face Cap!!

While producing a 3d animated comedy, we use this fantastic app in a variety of ways with excellent results. Our voiceover artists capture their facial performance while they record their audio, providing accurate lip sync. We then record the facial expressions of our mocap artists, giving us synchronized expressions and eye movements. The app is simple to use and produces usable, reliable files that are easy to manage both locally and even working with non technical creatives in remote locations.

I only have the free version right now. I can’t quite justify $35 for the full version. I have an iPhone Xs. It seems to struggle a bit with closed mouth shapes. Maybe the Xs cam is a bit different. But overall really cool. I’ll probably get it if there’s another update for Xs.