We work on one part of the pipeline and we work on it properly: the skeletal, muscular and facial architecture that decides whether a digital human reads as a person or as geometry.
Joint placement derived from skeletal landmarks, not eyeballed pivots. Layered muscle and fascia deformation drives skin sliding, volume preservation and tendon definition through full range of motion.
Facial rigs authored so the 52 ARKit shapes are a first-class output rather than a conversion. Performance from Live Link Face or a head-mounted camera lands as clean, animator-editable curves.
We extend MetaHuman bases with custom deformation, additional poses and your control conventions while staying compatible with Unreal's animation, LOD and grooming systems.
High-fidelity deformation baked down to skinning and correctives that hold up inside an engine frame budget, matched to the offline result within an agreed tolerance.
Rig builders, naming enforcement, publish steps and validation checks so the twentieth character costs less than the first and every asset arrives in the same shape.
An inherited rig that breaks under animation, fails retarget, or fights the engine. We diagnose, document what is structurally wrong, and either repair or rebuild the offending layer.
ARKit gives everyone the same vocabulary. What separates a face that acts from one that twitches is how those shapes are sculpted, how they combine, and which correctives fire when three of them overlap on a single brow.
We sculpt shapes on the character's own anatomy, test combination space systematically, and calibrate against real captured takes from your actor — so the data your solver produces drives expressions that belong to that character.
Discuss a facial build
We review the mesh, the animation source and the target engine, then write a rig specification: joint counts, deformation approach, control conventions, deliverable list and review gates.
Skeleton, skinning and muscle layers built and tested against a standard range-of-motion set plus your own hardest poses. You review in motion, not in T-pose.
Facial mechanics, ARKit shape set and correctives, calibrated against captured performance from your actor and camera setup.
Engine import, Control Rig setup, budget verification, and a written handoff document with scripts, conventions and known limits.
We will come back with a rig specification, a milestone plan and a fixed price — usually within two working days.
