Addon for easy face motion caption process of up to several minutes for digitalization and animation of the face in the picture using your webcam or prerecorded video.
- There are also some blend files, but I recommend you install and try it for yourself
Instal like any other blender add-on from preferences.
- open preferences - addons
- install addon
- select Face Track.zip
- enable add-on
- Install dependencies from extended add-on preferences
- Face Track panel should appear in the toolbar of the *3D View (the shortcut is 'N' for opening the toolbar while in 3D View)
!!! Tested on Blender 3.4.0 for Windows !!!
| platform | possible Issues | possible solution |
|---|---|---|
| all | cv2 wheel fails | blender < 2.93 -> install newer version |
| all | permission denied | start blender as Administrator (sudo for linux) while installing dependencies |
| mac os(arm) | mediapipe wheel fails on apple m1 | apple arm processors do not support mediapipe use intel |
| mac os | problem with camera starting | might be coused by mac trying to use iphone as a webcam |
- If you still have trouble installing dependencies you can install them by hand
- start blender python as admin (in mac os arm, start terminal in Rosetta)
- find the path of the executable in the blender script tab* by typing
import syssys.executable - open it in terminal
- find the path of the executable in the blender script tab* by typing
- type
- start blender python as admin (in mac os arm, start terminal in Rosetta)
import subprocess
import sys
subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-m','pip', 'install', 'mediapipe', 'opencv-contrib-python'])
This addon was created by Vladislav Komkov. If you find any issues or have any suggestions, please feel free to create an issue on the repository. Thank you for using Dynamic Section!