Exclusive to New World Notes, Ms. Cassie Middles previews an ambitious new update to the Genus mesh head -- motion captured animations for facial expressions:
"Now the head has mocap and there's several resting animations, fluid moving animations, gestures, and eye, brow, and mouth phases of animations," she tells me. I'm impressed, because it's incredibly difficult to mocap facial expressions, since they involve so many muscle groups.
It's not 100% perfect, she allows, but still smashing:
That lip bite tho
"There is an issue with using voice and the animations at the same time but otherwise, the beta version of this is still great. I did other parts reviewing this head, so I do recommend watching that playlist before watching this, as there didn't seem to be any other updates aside from the two mentioned." (Watch that series below.)
Click here to get the head in-world, but maybe read this first from Cassie: "Having a hard time finding the demo and item? The store looks pretty empty, but it's actually only on the counter top where it looks like a checkout area. There's a demo and a buyable pack there for 3000Linden. They also have a new face called Baby Face. but the store is now currently temporarily under construction."
Speaking of updates, Cassie just mentioned that a new Lelutka skin update that went live, and she's vlogging that next, so you better just goddamn go to her YouTube page for that and Subscribe when you do.
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