Ready? Set? Animate!

Now that you’ve downloaded and installed Faceware Retargeter you can use this page as your “getting started” guide to find tutorials, documentation, product support, get answers to frequently asked questions, and download free assets to test with such as IMPD performances, facial rigs, and example animation assets.  Our goal is to make sure you have all the tools you need to give our software a thorough evaluation.  If you have any questions, whether they be technical, creative, or pricing related, please don’t hesitate to send us a message through the website and one of our staff will be happy to help.

Faceware Retargeter Video Tutorials

There are many video tutorials available for Retargeter, but here are a few of the basics to get you going.

Download Free Facial Rigs Or Use Your Own Characters

Looking for a free facial rig to use to test out the Faceware animation pipeline? Browse our library of characters below and get animating right away with free rigs for Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, Motion Builder and Softimage. You can even download and try out the actual facial rig used on The Emily Project in 2008.

Already have a facial rig you’d like to try out with Retargeter? That’s even better! Retargeter works with any type of facial rig, there are no special setup requirements, proprietary nodes, or plug-ins required. Anything that can be keyframed can be driven with Retargeter. It’s been built from the ground up to accommodate any type of character and we’ve kept it light weight and versatile so that it can easily fit into your animation pipeline.

Visit the Faceware Free Facial Rig Library

IMPD Performance Library

FTI teamed up with Hollywood casting pros, Blindlight, to give our users a library of over 100 free IMPD performances to download and animate. Download the IMPDs right here from the site and get started animating with a variety of actors and performances. Search and filter videos by gender, actor, category and more to find an acting style that will suit your project’s specific needs.

Visit The IMPD Performance Library

Retargeter Support

You can find the full Faceware Retargeter Documentation and much more by visiting our Support Wiki. Still have questions? Feel free to contact us at support@facewaretech.com or use the contact form on our website!