KeenTools 2022.1: Blender 3.1 and Apple Silicon support, facial expression extraction
Today we release our 2022.1 update for Blender and Nuke — it’s a maintenance update consisting mainly of bug fixes and platform support improvements.
This version supports Blender 3.1 and works natively on Apple Silicon builds of Blender. In terms of features, we added the possibility to apply expressions from photos to the 3D model; split up rigidity controls of eye blinking, neck movements and general facial expressions; and added basic photo adjustment for tweaking images in case they’re too dark or bright.
In Nuke, FaceBuilder and FaceTracker nodes received the same improvements to the rigidity customisation.
Starting with this version, our License Server is using a new, more stable Hardware ID algorithm. It should help in situations when the hardware is changing often, for example, due to a VPN connection that creates new virtual network adapters.
The full list of FaceBuilder for Blender updates:
- Added Blender 3.1 support
- Added native Apple Silicon (M1) support
- Models can now be exported with expressions
- Regularisation improvements
- Added tone adjustment for photos
- Minor UI tweaks
- Minor updater fixes
- Fixed crashes when there is no sRGB profile
- Fixed vertex groups after the recreation of the mesh
- Fixed texturing with multiple heads in a scene
- General performance improvements
What’s new in the Nuke nodes:
- Rigidity improvements in FaceBuilder and FaceTracker
- Fixed anamorphic lens support in FaceBuilder
- Fixed scaling in export
- Pins can be toggled
- Improved tracking workflow when there are not enough features
- Fixed exporting bugs
- Improved Align Face behaviour
- Minor UI tweaks
- `Output transformed geometry` in FaceBuilder is now deprecated
- 2D-masking in GeoTracker is now completely strict
- General performance improvements
Other:
- More stable Hardware ID in License Server
Update the Nuke package and FaceBuilder for Blender from our website. As usual, 30 days of the fully-featured trial are included upon the first installation.
