Create pictures and videos of facial expressions for your experiments.

This work is based on the Facial Action coding System :

Ekman, P., Friesen, W. V., & Hager, J. C. (2002). Facial action coding system. A Human Face.

This plugin allow you to create facial expressions by moving the corresponding Action Units (AU) described in the FACS Manual. Additional plugins are available to create scene (lights placement and lights colors) and animations.

Please cite the following paper if you use this plugin for your research :

Gilbert, M., Demarchi, S., & Urdapilleta, I. (2021). FACSHuman, a software program for creating experimental material by modeling 3D facial expressions. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01559-9 Pdf is available here : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13428-021-01559-9.pdf

Gilbert, M., Demarchi, S., & Urdapilleta, I. (2018). FACSHuman a Software to Create Experimental Material by Modeling 3D Facial Expression. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA ’18, 333‑334. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267851.3267865 - ISBN: 978-1-4503-6013-5

1. https://iva2018.westernsydney.edu.au/
2. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3267865#

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Gilbert10

Download and install MakeHuman from here http://www.makehumancommunity.org/content/downloads.html and follow the instructions for your Operating System.

Then start MakeHuman once to create the MH directory in your home/YOURUSER/Document/

If you have any questions about the installation and the use of this software :

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.makehumancommunity.org/forum/

Put this files inside the plugin directory of your MH installation (not in the plugin directory of MH in USER/Document/makehuman)

All the FACSHuman target files were created with Blender and the MH tools for Blender.

Place targets files directory into :

For lastest version of MH :

/home/YOUR_USER/Documents/makehuman/YOUR_NUMBER/data/FACSHuman/

For earlier versions :

/home/YOUR_USER/Documents/makehuman/data/FACSHuman/

This directory contains :

• 00 Emotions
• 01 Upper Face AUs
• 02 Lower Face AUs
• 03 Lip Parting and Jaw Opening
• 04 Eye Positions
• 05 Head Positions
• 06 Miscellaneous AUs
• au.json
• black.jpg

Whithout these files plugins do not work

Teeth, eyes, eylashes and tongue are modified versions of materials assets from the http://www.makehumancommunity.org/

Place directories in :

for lastest version of MH :

/home/YOUR_USER/Documents/makehuman/YOUR_NUMBER/data/...

for earlier versions :

/home/YOUR_USER/Documents/makehuman/data/...

In order to avoid teeth distortion (original models) when you use mouth opening AUs, you need to use the modified facs models.

Place it in /teeth

This directory contains :

• FACSTeeth01
• FACSTeeth01a
• FACSTeeth01b
• FACSTeeth02
• FACSTeeth02a
• FACSTeeth02b
• FACSteeth03
• FACSteeth03_bw
• FACSteeth04

Place it in /eyes

This directory contains :

• black_map.png
• /eyes_no_cornea
• /facs-poly
• makehuman_eye_specular.png
• makehuman_eye_specular2.png
• /materials
• /real_pupil_no-cornea
• specular_map.png
• specular_map_invert.png
• specular_map_white_b.png

Place it in /eyelashes

This directory contains :

• FACSEyeLashes01

Place it in /tongue

This directory contains :

• FACSTongue
• FACSTongue_bw (black and white model)

Place it in /custom

This directory contains :

• close_lips.target

This target is useful to close the small gap between lips of the MH model.

An Open Source Modular Framework From Face to FACS Based Avatar Animation (Unity3D / Blender) More on FACSvatar: https://github.com/NumesSanguis/FACSvatar

If you want to use the video production inside FACSHuman you need to install FFmpeg tools :

https://ffmpeg.org/about.html

and put this software into the path of your computer.

You will find the procedure on the net depending of your operating system.

https://www.michaelgilbert.fr/facshuman/

FACSHuman is a plugin for Makehuman.

If you have any questions please contact me not the MH Team

More tutorials videos will be available soon.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEAepvD886XqB6wikmXW8Qg