New to FaceGen Artist, need some advice
launok
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On the FaceGen interface it states only profile photos will work. But I thought it will work on photos of profile photos which is somewhat cartoonish, i.e. a ventriloquest doll face. After following the steps it say that the markers are not correctly put on image. Is the reason for this, the fact it's not a quite realistic human photo used? Or is it the size of the photo? Photos are .jpg format. I am not good at modeling, especially characters/faces. I thought FaceGen will also do the trick, but not the way I try it. Would love to put such a cartoonish face onto Genesis.
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Another forum member used it on a CG 3D render of Frankenstein that was a realistic render even though the way the model was sculpted still make the render appear somewhat cartoonish.
You can and should use a frontal picture and you can add a profile picture for the left and right profiles but it strictly isn't needed to have profile pictures used.
It say photo size must be passport size, maybe that is one of the reasons the faces I tried are too big. Thus bigger than passport size won't work it seems. And someone commented images must be halftone. Today is my 1st attempt using FaceGen.
By 'must' they mean 'must at least be' I think. & they mean just the head & shoulders. A passport picture must be in the 2"x2" in USA when you send it to the government although the size of the picture is shrunk when that add it to the passport so that's sort of misleading to say a 'passport size' picture. The actual picture sent to be used for a passport is 2"x2" and so actually a pretty big picture. On my last passport the picture on the actual passport is actually pretty small, less than 1"x1" I think the picture they were sent was bigger though.
Just as important is what resolution the face area is if it's a photo or scan of a photo. The picture being too big is not a problem as you can pan in the selection window and also to a degree zoom in & out on the photo. If it is scale the picture to be smaller. 2048x2048 or thereabout should be more than enough.
You shouldn't do any autolevels or autocorrect or autocontrast or any adjustments to the photo outside of getting a resolution that is good enough to use with FaceGen.
They have a forum too that you can ask questions in too but it takes a day or two usually to get an answer.