Developers can use Mixamo’s Face Plus to capture your facial expressions in real-time

Animators have a tough task creating realistic animations that reflect the nuances and emotions of real people. But Mixamo has created a game development tool called Face Plus that can capture a face in real time and animate it in a 3D-cartoon style. The San Francisco 3D animation service provider says it will lead to more emotionally engaging games with characters who have realistic facial expressions.

This kind of technology makes it a lot easier for amateur game developers to create stunning 3D characters in games. And it moves animators a small step closer to conquering the “uncanny valley,” a hypothesis that suggest that human face animations become more unreal the closer the animations come to 3D replicas.