Thought someone else might find this useful. Reallusion Software released a plugin for Character Creator 3 called Headshot a couple of weeks ago. With if you upload a front on shot of a person and it will generate a character head model adjusting the position of the facial features. It will then project the photo onto the model creating a texture and normal maps. It will also adjust the skin tone of the rest of the body model to match the given photo. Once done you can adjust the eye color, skin tones, and use a ton of morph target sliders to tweak individual facial features. It’s not perfect but it makes a pretty good starting point for a model and is good for background characters for arch viz, animations etc. You can also export the models to Zbrush, Obj and FBX.
The GOZ plugin is neat in that you can adjust the model in zbrush and send it back to Character creator, use the pose tools there and then send it back to Zbrush and it will update the pose. no more fiddling with the transpose tool.
I was futzing around with the demo this afternoon and using faces from Thispersondoesnotexist.com
The web page generates random faces using an AI based Adversarial network.
There are limitations. Faces from and angle won’t work, harsh lighting, Bangs or hair in front of the face or bad, Beards are ok. Glasses and hats wil throw it off. And you can produce bad models also. It’s only as good as the input.
Some caveats, To export models to Zbrush you will need Character creator 3 pipeline version. They have a bundle deal till Dec 31 with Character creator 3 pipeline, headshot and the 1000 morph targets.
That’s why I’m mentioning this now in case it’s of interest to anyone.
