


Once the photo is loaded into Headshot, with an appropriate skin and body type selected – and you press the Generate button – a character is created with the photo mapped to the face and the model’s features aligned more or less accurately depending on how well the software has picked up the features. The Automatically Generated Model is Just the Start

For me, even when working on challenging subjects like this, the first step is always to reduce head tilt as well as to perform some initial de-lighting in Photoshop.

The Better the Photo, the Better the ModelĪ good photo for use with Headshot will be taken face on to the subject, evenly lit, and with the subject’s face in a neutral, closed mouth expression – using Headshot’s Pro Mode, this will always provide a better a better starting point for more detailed work. Compressed from 3 hours of continuous footage, whilst the video is not a tutorial, it demonstrates a professional’s approach to high quality model creation, with many tips for Headshot artists along the way. In this article, Mike describes his workflow of using Character Creator and Headshot to produce a high quality animated model from a single photo. You can download a free trial here.Īrtist and specialist in realistic 3D human modeling and animation Used in tandem with an image editor such as Photoshop, it can be used to produce highly realistic, animation ready models in a fraction of the time involved when making rigged models from scratch using conventional sculpture, scans or photogrammetry. Reallusion’s Headshot Plug-in for Character Creator is a unique approach to real-time character head modelling which combines automatic AI based photo alignment with morph-based manual alignment and texture re-projection. Learn how to create fully-rigged digital doubles from a single photo with the new Headshot Plug-in!
