v0.2.0: What's new

The first big update since launch: characters now feel alive.

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Highlights

• A real walk and run. The everyday movements are motion-captured performances from the CMU motion capture database, retargeted to every body shape.
• Faces that come alive.
  • Characters blink and glance around in every animation.
  • 9 expressions with real teeth and tongue.
  • A Talk clip, and 14 lip-sync mouth shapes (Oculus viseme names) for driving dialogue in Unity, Unreal or Godot.
  • All exported as blend shapes in GLB and FBX.
• 70 animations, up from 39:
  • vehicles (car, bicycle, motorcycle, horse, canoe, kayak, rowing boat, boat helm)
  • sitting and lying down, with stand up and sleep
  • hit reactions, knockdowns, deaths and getting up
  • jumps split for game engines
  • a low punch and a slouch walk
  • more on the way
• A bicycle prop. Under Props, it's fitted to every rider, with the wheels and pedals turning in time with the Ride bicycle animation. Preview only for now.
• More natural skin tones for African characters and older men, and new dark-brown and black-brown eye colours.

Also

• Animation browser: search, categories, and previous / next buttons, in a drawer that keeps the character in view.
• Closed lips: a neutral face no longer shows the teeth.
• New test: a UI smoke test (npm run test:ui) drives the app in a real browser.
• Code: the app's UI is split into modules (src/app/ui/).

Updating an existing clone

git pull
npm install
npm run setup-assets   # rebuilds the generated assets (new eye colours); reuses your downloads, about a minute
npm run dev

Licensing

The code is MIT and the character data is CC0, as before. The motion-captured clips come from the CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database. They're free to use, including in commercial products, but the data may not be resold on its own. Details are in scripts/ASSETS_LICENSE.txt.

Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0