Here’s something new:
On this beta, Animoji are definitely better at recognizing and animating winking/blinking. Previously, the character would display a sort of shuddering, flickering, awkward and squashed half-squint as if the software couldn’t reliably detect a closed eye. As you can see, winks now animate much more smoothly (and the quivering eyebrows are an accurate capture of my real facial muscles straining to hold the position, not a glitch). I don’t have access to a device running an earlier build, but perhaps someone else can post for comparison.
As a bonus, they’ve also made enhancements to the models for “kissy-faces”. Animoji have always had special parameters for animating the characters’ lips while kissing, but the effect is far more defined now and can be triggered with a much less exaggerated/extreme pucker. Getting the kiss to happen reliably used to involve far less natural-feeling mouth movements. As this video shows, iOS is definitely morphing to differently-sculpted and specially shaded lips when kissing—it’s not just standard expression tracking.
I can’t be positive that these improvements come with *this* beta, but I’m pretty sure—and they definitely are noticeably iterated over the original Animoji models.
On this beta, Animoji are definitely better at recognizing and animating winking/blinking. Previously, the character would display a sort of shuddering, flickering, awkward and squashed half-squint as if the software couldn’t reliably detect a closed eye. As you can see, winks now animate much more smoothly (and the quivering eyebrows are an accurate capture of my real facial muscles straining to hold the position, not a glitch). I don’t have access to a device running an earlier build, but perhaps someone else can post for comparison.
As a bonus, they’ve also made enhancements to the models for “kissy-faces”. Animoji have always had special parameters for animating the characters’ lips while kissing, but the effect is far more defined now and can be triggered with a much less exaggerated/extreme pucker. Getting the kiss to happen reliably used to involve far less natural-feeling mouth movements. As this video shows, iOS is definitely morphing to differently-sculpted and specially shaded lips when kissing—it’s not just standard expression tracking.
I can’t be positive that these improvements come with *this* beta, but I’m pretty sure—and they definitely are noticeably iterated over the original Animoji models.
