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Ziva Face Trainer
From hyper realistic to stylized, for games, animation, or VFX, Ziva Face Trainer helps 3D character artists to achieve complex and believable facial animations, without compromise.
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From mesh to rigged and real-time

Creating characters that perform complex and believable expressions can be time-consuming and expensive. Ziva Face Trainer accelerates the workflow by providing an accessible way to automatically generate film-quality facial rigging for your characters, ready for animation in Maya and Unity.

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Robust facial controls

Ziva Faces are high-performance, fully rigged puppets that can express over 72,000 training shapes, as well as novel face poses.

"Ziva Face Trainer is a unique workflow that boosts our creative process, allowing us to augment and spend time where it counts for fidelity, allowing us to provide higher quality base work as well as more detailed photoreal content."
CHRISTOPHER CHINEA / PIXOMONDOVirtual Production / R&D Supervisor
Real-time faces trained in the cloud
Quality without compromise

Scale model performance to memory budget needs. Ziva Faces are only 30MB at runtime, and run at real-time rates in game engines (3ms/frame on a single CPU thread).

For any style of face

Ziva Face Trainer works on any human-like face, from hyperrealistic to fantastical or stylized.

Deploy as a Unity asset

Open your Ziva Face directly in Unity with the Unity Ziva RT Player. Download the free plugin to deploy and see your deformations in a game-engine environment.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Ziva Face Trainer?

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What software do I need to create a face mesh?

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How can I deploy and play with my trained Ziva Face?

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Is Ziva Face Trainer an app or a service?

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Do you have an instruction manual?

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Where can I access my previews or trained Ziva Faces?

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What happens if I don’t like the preview of my Ziva Face?

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Can I use my own topology on the Ziva Face Trainer?

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I’m a customer, how do I get started?

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