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Check out these amazing 3D facial animations from Mova.

Mova is a motion capture company, whose Contour Reality Capture system uses an array of cameras to create 100,000 polygon facial models that are accurate to within a tenth of a millimeter. Unlike traditional motion capture technology, Mova doesn’t rely on reflective balls taped to the capture subject. The advantages to this are a higher resolution image and lower cost motion capture. The results are pretty wild.

When I was a kid, I remember every year checking a book on monster costumes out of the school library. I did this every Halloween. The pictures in the book looked awesome (at least to a twelve year old boy) but after mixing up multiple batches of some kind of goo made of jello and Quaker Oatmeal, my make up effects never looked liked the picture.

I thought of this today when I came across this article talking about how to create creature makeup effects for under 50. I’ve bookmarked the page so that this year when my son and I are arm deep in jello and Quaker Oats, we can look back to it for inspiration.