OmniFaceRig: Fully Automatic Inner-Mouth-Aware Face Rigging Across Diverse 3D Character Topologies
Researchers have developed OmniFaceRig, an automated system for creating detailed facial rigs for 3D characters, including the inner mouth. This pipeline supports a wide variety of character topologies, from humans to diverse animal species, without requiring manual landmark annotation or per-character setup. OmniFaceRig utilizes a combination of visual-language models, computer vision, and procedural generation to create up to 155 blendshapes and inner mouth geometry. The team has also released Omni-Bench, a benchmark dataset of 1,000 3D characters, to facilitate further research in this area. AI
IMPACT Automates a complex 3D animation task, potentially accelerating character production pipelines.