This Blender Add-on allows for you to quickly make a 3D face mesh from a 2D image, touch up that face mesh, and align Rigify bones to it.
- Download the project as a zip file, and put it in the directory of your choosing
- DO NOT UNZIP IT! Blender add-ons like to be zipped up
- Open Blender with "Run as administrator" to be able to install the dependencies. (You can open it normally if you're using the portable version of Blender)
- Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install, then navigate to the saved zip folder
- Search for "Cyanic Toolbox" and check the box next to it, then click the triangle to expand the add-on preferences
- Click either the "Install all dependencies" button, or go one by one down the dependencies to install them
- Once all the dependencies are installed,
Cyanicshould show up in your Layout's sidebar menu
- In the "Facemesh Builder" section, select the filepath for an image with a face - ideally a JPG but sometimes PNGs have the correct formatting to work
- Click the "Create face mesh" button
- The generated .obj will be automatically imported into the scene. By default, this generated file (and it's texture) are saved in the same directory as your source image
- Cleanup tools like "Open eyes" and "Open mouth" can make it easier for adding higher quality 3D eyes/teeth
- "Snap to Symmetry" is easy access to the Blender function with the same name. Sometimes it works great, other times it needs some help
- "Undo" and "Redo" commands should work as expected
- The "Rig Face + Eyes" will align Rigify Meta-rig bones with their closest matching vertex in the face mesh. IT DOES NOT PARENT ANYTHING! That has to be done after you generate a rig from the meta-rig.
Mediapipe 3D Pose Estimation from 2D image/video is highly desirable feature, but it takes a lot of math that I need to study before I can make it a reality. The Work In Progress Mocap tab is there if you want to play with it, but don't expect much.