Live Link Face for effortless facial animation in Unreal Engine—capture performances for use in Unreal Engine from your iPhone or iPad.
Capture facial performances for MetaHuman Animator:
- Live Link Face supports both real-time and processed animation.
- MetaHuman Animator uses Live Link Face to capture performances, then applies its own processing to create high-fidelity facial animation for MetaHumans.
- The Live Link Face app captures raw video and depth data, which can be transmitted directly from your device into Unreal Engine for use with the MetaHuman plugin.
- Facial animation created with MetaHuman Animator can be applied to any MetaHuman character in just a few clicks.
- This workflow requires an iPhone (12 or above) and a desktop PC running Windows 10/11.
Real-time animation for MetaHumans:
- The Live Link Face app generates animation to drive a MetaHuman Character in real time.
- Animation data is streamed to Unreal Engine over a network using the MetaHuman Live Link Plugin.
- This workflow requires an iPhone (12 or above) and a desktop PC running Windows 10/11.
Real-time animation for non-MetaHuman characters:
- Stream out ARKit animation data live to an Unreal Engine instance via Live Link over a network.
- Visualize facial expressions in real time with live rendering in Unreal Engine.
- Drive a 3D preview mesh, optionally overlaid over the video reference on the phone.
- Record the raw ARKit animation data and front-facing video reference footage.
- Tune the capture data to the individual performer and improve facial animation quality with rest pose calibration.
Timecode support for multi-device synchronization:
- Select from the system clock, an NTP server, or use a Tentacle Sync device to connect with a master clock on stage.
- Video reference is frame accurate with embedded timecode for editorial.
Control Live Link Face remotely with OSC or via the MetaHuman Plugin for Unreal Engine:
- Trigger recording remotely so actors can focus on their performances.
- Capture slate names and take numbers consistently.
- Extract data for processing and storage.
Browse and manage the library of captured takes:
- Delete takes within Live Link Face, share via AirDrop.
- Transfer directly over network when using MetaHuman Animator.
- Review captured footage on-device.
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Is Arcane Maze free?
Yes, Arcane Maze is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Arcane Maze legit?
⚠️ The Arcane Maze app has poor ratings and negative feedback. Users seem unsatisfied with its performance or features.
I wish I could say this was really fantastic, but honestly it’s just average at best. Maybe it’s just me, but I can move my eyebrows independently of one another - I can lift one up, and scrunch the other up or leave it totally relaxed and it’s very frustrating to see how poorly handled eyebrow tracking is in general. Especially when eyebrows give so much emotion. I’m running this on an iPhone 15 Pro Max and I still can’t get the darn thing to just track my eyebrows. Instead it tracks only one eyebrow or weirdly mixes the motion of each eyebrow into one half-baked combo. Mostly it just makes my whole forehead look dead - like, I can’t even begin to tell you how important eyebrow motion is to conveying the emotions and thoughts of a character. Heck, it might be more important than every other facial feature combined. I’m ranting. I really wanted to love this - I really wanted to feel like it’s a game changer. But, it’s just kinda average. It’s largest selling point is that it’s integrated into Unreal and you can transfer simple mocap and reference footage from via the live link. I just wish the actual tracking was better.
Questions
How to start making the characters because I can’t seem to find it?
Works wonders!
Now I can troll on the internet as a greasy bald metahuman worm thing!
Unsupported format
When I try to transfer my capture, during the process it failed and says unsupported file format
Terrible, don’t waste your time
This app hasn’t been updated in forever and doesn’t even work properly since at least UE5.4 nor 5.5. I have my computer and my iPhone on the same network, firewall inbound and outbound permissions for everything UE related enabled, Local Network enabled for this app, and more, yet it still doesn’t work. Uninstalling ASAP
Can’t get files off my phone
So every time I go to get the files off my phone by uploading to Google Drive I get an error now. It use to work but all of the sudden uploading to Google Drive doesn’t work and I don’t have an apple computer to airdrop the files to
Doesn’t work
Got this when i just downloaded it “ An error occurred initializing the selected capture mode. Session activation failed” i haven’t even moved anything
Broken version
Does not work on iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 17
Latest version broken
Unfortunately this app needs to be updated to request camera permission. The current update becomes completely unusable in iOS 17.
Camera permissions?
I can’t get my camera permissions to activate. The app is useless without it. I go to my settings and live link just isn’t an option to select.
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