Monday, May 13th 2013
NVIDIA Releases FaceWorks Tech-Demo to Public
NVIDIA made a public-release of its FaceWorks tech-demo, which was a centerpiece at its GDC 2013 booth, this March. The demo, which uses the same Digital Ira light-stage source material as a similar tech-demo by Activision, demonstrates the GPU's ability to handle complex facial expressions. The light-stage material was captured at the Institute for Creative Technology at the University of Southern California (USC).
Drawing life-like facial expressions that leap over the uncanny valley, is easier said than done. NVIDIA's GDC demo required the graphics processing power of a GeForce GTX TITAN. The demo appears to take advantage of DirectX 11 and NVIDIA CUDA, and is built for the Windows platform. The demo is made publicly available, filed under the "Cool Stuff" section of NVIDIA website.
DOWNLOAD: Digital Ira Tech-Demo by NVIDIA
Drawing life-like facial expressions that leap over the uncanny valley, is easier said than done. NVIDIA's GDC demo required the graphics processing power of a GeForce GTX TITAN. The demo appears to take advantage of DirectX 11 and NVIDIA CUDA, and is built for the Windows platform. The demo is made publicly available, filed under the "Cool Stuff" section of NVIDIA website.
14 Comments on NVIDIA Releases FaceWorks Tech-Demo to Public
The mechanics of the face expressions are custom and done on CUDA, which is disappointing, since we have the Open-CL and direct compute open standards around.
I wish Battlefield 4 looked this good, and used a better mechanics engine that allows for a human to move like a human and not a robotic vehicle.
Edit:
Fixed: Anyone else here thinks that BF4 should be a DLC?
Thinking about it, Tahiti's single precision theoretical processing power is 4.3 Teraflops. With better utilization and more horsepower, next generations gpus from both camps should be able to run games that look this good at 1080P or higher resolutions at comfortable frame rates.
What an ass the uploader! :shadedshu:banghead: