Live Link Face

Virtual production-ready facial animation in real time from your iPhone or iPad -- Live Link Face for Unreal Engine. Stream high-quality facial expressions to characters and visualize them with live rendering in UnrealEngine. Record facial tracking data that can be further fine-tuned in animation tools to achieve a finalperformance and assembled in Unreal Engine’s Sequencer. Shoot professional-grade performance capture with an integrated stage workflow. Facial animation via front-camera and ARKit: ● Stream out the data live to an Unreal Engine instance via Live Link over a network. ● Drive a 3D preview mesh, optionally overlaid over the video reference on the phone. ● Record the raw facial animation data and front-facing video reference footage. ● Tune the capture data to the individual performer and improve facial animation quality with rest pose calibration. Timecode support for multi-device synchronization: ● Select from the iPhone system clock, an NTP server, or use a Tentacle Sync to connect with a master clock on stage. ● Video reference is frame accurate with embedded timecode for editorial. Control Live Link Face remotely with OSC: ● Trigger recording externally so actors can focus on their performances. ● Capture slate names and take numbers consistently. ● Extract data automatically for archival. Browse and manage the captured library of takes within Live Link Face: ● Delete takes, share via AirDrop. ● Play back the reference video on the phone.