3d news: Facial Studio (Windows Edition) v2 released!

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Looks fairly intereting:

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Need to create a 3D realistic, caricatured or cartoon head ? Whatever the ethnicity or gender you are seeking to create, Facial Studio (Windows Edition) will greatly facilitate the once complex task of creating 3D heads.

Facial Studio (Windows Edition) features more than 500 controls covering the entire 3D head creation process. Deform anything from eyes, nose and mouth to head shape, including teeth and tongue. Modify head symmetry, ethnicity and gender as you please.

What is truly unique about Facial Studio (Windows Edition) is the application’s ability to create a head based on photos in less than 10 minutes using easy‑to‑use PhotoMatching technology.

Then, using Facial Studio (Windows Edition) controls, you can tweak the head, define your own facial poses, and export heads and all deformations to your favourite 3D software. In fact, Facial Studio (Windows Edition) exports to every major 3D application including 3ds max, Cinema4D, LightWave, Maya, MotionBuilder, XSI and many others using the FBX file format

1. New licensing mechanism allowing floating licenses
2. Ability to display PhotoMatching textures in the 3d view
3. Undo & Redo buttons in the PhotoMatching module
4. Red blending lines are not restricted to be just vertical
5. Enhanced FBX exporter
6. Improved wireframe display
7. Improved Shape generators preset: Gender, Race
8. Improved Phonemes generators preset
9. New additional Shape generators preset: Asymmetry, Blowing
10. New additional jaw deformations : Y Rotation, Z Rotation