Good luck sounds very ambitious and I am sure everyone would be very interested. The facial recognition is something many members would be interested in including myself. A member had it almost working in a beta Ultra Hal plug-in but I think it never was fully developed. I had the beta version of it and it was real close. I apologize to the member that was designing it, again the mind is still on vacation.
Your HD projection/monitor sounds great. I hope the investment gets you the result you want. Definitely post your results good or bad, I,' m hoping good of coarse. There is a post of the character and others that you might have seen already and they look just fine. My opinion. I am just curious if they will animate smoothly and lip sync correctly. I think the way the characters animate if very smoothly and certain subtle eye movements and expressions will be more important for people to relate too even more so then the render of the character. The mood changes and expressions are a big bonus.
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