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ML Digital Prosthetics
LightStage advanced machine-learning models and precise 3D facial data enables lifelike digital doubles that blend seamlessly into any scene, driving the future of digital prosthetics.
Achieving Unmatched Visual Fidelity and Scientific Precision in Facial Capture
Revolutionizing Photorealism
LightStage captures the human face from every angle, creating incredibly realistic virtual replicas that adapt to any lighting condition. Its advanced algorithms accurately reproduce skin color, texture, shine, shading, and sub-surface details, ensuring seamless integration into any scene. Recognized for its groundbreaking contributions to visual storytelling, LightStage has earned two Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Precision-Driven Geometry
We achieve sub-millimeter precision with over five million polygons captured from LightStage scans, creating ultra-detailed, geometrically accurate models. This level of fidelity ensures every contour, wrinkle, and surface detail is meticulously preserved, delivering a truly lifelike digital representation.
Distinctive Detail with Separated Maps
Our LightStage models go beyond the ordinary, delivering separated maps that showcase every nuance of skin texture. Experience crystal-clear diffuse and specular maps paired with intricate normals and displacement maps that bring life-like realism to every scan.
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LightStage's Academy Award winning reflectance field capture technology is transforms virtual performance
Facial Scanning
LightStage technology captures faces with extraordinary detail, separating diffuse and specular components for lifelike realism. From subtle skin textures to every nuanced expression, we deliver the most accurate and photorealistic facial scans possible.
Body Scanning
Our state-of-the-art body scanner captures every detail with exceptional accuracy. Perfect for full-body scans, it delivers precise, life-like models, making it ideal for everything from character creation and avatars to detailed measurements.
Costume Scanning
From intricate fabrics to complex designs, our scanning technology captures costumes with remarkable detail and precision. Whether it’s elaborate armor, flowing garments, or textured materials, every element is faithfully reproduced for stunningly accurate digital models.
Prop Scanning
In addition to people, we capture props with unparalleled accuracy. Using advanced tools like our Laser Arm Scanner, designed for complex geometry and high-precision tasks (even capable of detecting micro-cracks in airplane wings), we ensure every detail is flawlessly reproduced.
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Lightstage history
LightStage scans have been the industry standard for blockbuster films and AAA game titles for over a decade
The technology is co-created by LightStage CTO Tim Hawkins, based on pioneering research conducted at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. In 2008, OTOY licensed this groundbreaking technology for commercial use and opened the LightStage capture facility in Burbank, CA.
In recognition of its innovative impact, LightStage received a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored for its "ability to capture high-fidelity reflectance data of human subjects, enabling the creation of photorealistic digital faces that appear true to life in any lighting condition."
CASE STUDIES
Powering the next generation of Virtual Performance
OTOY's LightStage reflectance field facial scanning technology has been used in many of the most iconic blockbuster films of the past decade.
