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This quality does not yet work in real time; postprocessing by animation artists is necessary. The video also does not yet show the final render, but only the Maya viewport. The details shown can be adjusted by parameters, so the video can run both on a high-end system such as a PlayStation 4 and on a system with less performance.
Here is the facial-capture animation from Cubic Motion:
The rig comes from 3Lateral; in this video, the San Francisco company presents it in detail:
3Lateral Rig Interaction from 3Lateral on Vimeo.
Cubic Motion has currently captured Kevin Spacey as a game character for "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare":
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