Motion Capture Animation in After Effects

Heard of Tigtone? It’s a cartoon that uses motion capture to warp puppet mesh pins in After Effects. I’m a fan of the show and so I wanted to try to create my very own “face rig,“ but unlike the animators working on Tigtone, I’ve only relied on the built in face tracking -- in other words, there’s no need to glue tracking markers to your face if you use this method. Of course, it’s not perfect, but I’ve made a lot of progress on this over the last month, and I think I’m close to building a completely automated system of facial animation! If I can figure this out, I’ll be able to post videos more frequently, with more sophisticated animation. NOTE: I think Adobe Character Animator is still a great option to use in conjunction with this technique, and I bet that by next year, most of these features that I’ve scripted using expressions will be standard in character animator. More updates SOON, I promise. - G ♥