CGISoul,
If you're really interested in 'entry-level' face capture systems, there are two current solutions I'm aware of. Sorry, I don't have much experience with face capture because I've never actually needed it, but here you go:
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Zigntrack 2 and Zigntrack Pro. This is a fairly inexpensive marker-based solution. It's been around for several years and it outputs various formats. I dabbled with an early version but never actually applied it to anything myself. I recall that some users in these forums have used it but I'm not sure I've seen the results. Maybe there are demo videos by users on YouTube?
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Maskarad. This one interests me because it's a markerless solution but the price may be considered a little expensive for 'hobbyists'. I've never used this system myself but the results at their YouTube channel are very interesting. (FWIW, I do use another program offered by this company called Facial Studio Pro to quickly generate human heads with embedded morph targets using two photographs as a source. It's really fast and fun to use. The results are not 'hero' models but they work fine for background characters or as a base for more finished models.)
I don't want to discourage anybody from trying but, IMO, face capture is not a trivial matter. It's one thing to capture face data with a web cam but retargeting the data convincingly and predictably to a character in a 3D program can get complicated. And once you have that, tweaking the data could easily become a full-time task. I suspect many 'indie' artists eventually decide it's easier and faster to simply keyframe the morphs to a reference video. I think this is why you don't typically see face capture used for small cg productions.
Of course, only a couple of years ago I would have said similar things about body capture, so what do I know? :p
G.
