Animaze News

They say that dragons make you closer to gods; without them, we'd be like everyone else. But who wants that?
Meet Nuri The Dragon, first of his name, King of the Animaze realm, protector of streams, and breaker of creativity chains. This new avatar is the newest addition to the extensive list of Holotech original avatars and is now available for all Animaze subscribers.

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If you care to take advantage to the max of this new awesome piece of content, make sure you check out our tips and tricks regarding how to get the best video creation out of the Animaze app.

Also, if you're feeling creative, we've also prepared some tips and tricks about customizing and retexturing your avatars, making them your own with a vast array of props or with a custom background.

More details about Animaze’s ongoing development and art efforts will be revealed soon with an updated roadmap.

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Hello, Animaze community!

As a result of your feedback, we've prepared a few tweaks for some app issues in regard to the new webcam-based face tracker. Here's a list of tweaked tracker inputs:

• eye blinks
  
• pursed/puckered lips
  
• smile and frown
  
• jaw drop/mouth open
  

If you have already customized these particular inputs in the advanced tracking configuration, note that they will be reverted to default without affecting the rest of the configuration. Apologies for the inconvenience, we cannot provide backward compatibility as we have changed key aspects of these tracker inputs.

Additionally, we've added a pop-up to notify users in-app of the tracker changes. We are committed to adding a pop-up every time there's a fundamental change in our tracker tech.

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Happy update day, folks!

We have big news to share with you today so join us in going through replacing current tracking technology with the new Visage Technologies face tracker and two Animaze DLCs that offer one-time payment options for the Animaze app!

Let’s breakdown the changes and see what they mean:

[h2]Animaze Plus 22 and Animaze Pro 22, the one-time payment options for consumers
[/h2]We know not everyone likes subscriptions and we've wanted to build a one-time-purchase option for a year now, but first had to switch off our old face tracking license that wouldn't allow a perpetual version. Thanks to our new partnership with an even better tracking tech developer Visage Technologies, we're now ready to present Animaze Plus 22 and Animaze Pro 22.

Animaze Plus 22, available for a one-time payment of $29.99, is offering the Animaze base experience, with everything that we’ve built and released from the start of Animaze until August 2022:

• Remove the watermark
  
• Stream at 60+ FPS
  
• Dedicated capture window (w/ Spout2 capabilities)
  
• Export video as MP4
  
• Access the entire August 22 Animaze art slate: including avatars, backgrounds, props, and more
  
• 80+ customizable avatars
  
• 35+ customizable backgrounds
  
• 90+ customizable accessories
  

Animaze Pro 22, available for a one-time payment of $149.99, is offering:

• Everything in Animaze Plus 22
  
• Pro-Streamer commercial rights for streamers earning $500+ per month/$6000 + per year
  
• Access to select Holotech Originals content sources of your choice, to modify the original avatar/background/prop to better complement your identity (up to 2 avatars, 5 accessories, 2 backgrounds and 3 emotes).
  

Animaze Pro 22 is only needed if you earn more than $6000 per year from Animaze-powered content (or $500 per month).

Existing Plus or Pro yearly subscribers (or monthly equivalent) will also get free copies of the 2022 feature-locked versions within days of the launch.

The Animaze subscriptions will continue to benefit from updates, and it will be the only way to access Animaze online features that require the Animaze servers (multiplayer or the expanding avatar library). Stick with your subscription to support the Animaze team, and if you want the smoothest, most expressive avatars with all the exciting new features we have in store.

[h2]The new Visage-powered tracking technology[/h2]
Our goal with this update is to enable one-time payment options and still offer an AAA-quality experience for your avatar embodiment needs. As we’re swapping technologies, here are the slight changes we expect to see:

The lip motion tracked with Visage Technologies is more detailed
The overall tracking is more stable
The tongue-out action does not work with Visage Technologies. A solution for this is that the tongue-out action will be included in the animations menu
Looking up and down does not work consistently on Visage Technologies, eye movement is locked to horizontal movement.

The old Animaze tracking experience can still be accessed on this branch: hyprface

To get accustomed in depth to the new tech and its calibration we have this article: https://www.animaze.us/manual/calibration

Please feel free to speak your mind and give us feedback at support [@] animaze [.] us or on our contact page. Animaze and the tracking technology will continue to evolve and we will continue, to implement feedback we receive from the community.

This update also brings numerous other fixes and improvements:

• Advanced Tracking Configurations now saves as a separate file so you can have multiple configuration files that you can use in different lighting setups. Select a saved configuration file from the Tracking Profile Default drop-down.
  
• Fixed Ultraleap retargeting issue on Personas where props would twist unexpectedly.
  
• Adjusted Ready Player Me avatars upper lip and nose retargeting.
  
• Tweaks and adjustments to Alternate Lipsync Retargeting.
  
• Fixed crash when changing audio input device and OVR Lipsync is active.
  
• removed duplicated camera device capabilities (resolution and fps).
  
• Fixed Axis PerceptionNeuron tracker IP field typing behavior.
  
• Fixed icon generation for customized avatars while connected to an Animaze Room,
  
• Fixed issue with gamepad controls auto activating when changing the avatar even if the gamepad was deactivated.
  
• Added tongue out as a Pose.
  
• OVR lipsync tweaks to dampen some visemes that are erroneously detected
  

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

You asked and we listened.

You wanted an alternative to a monthly or yearly subscription to Animaze – the best way to live stream as a motion-capture avatar. So today we're launching our one-time-purchase versions Animaze Plus 22, and Animaze Pro 22 for professional streamers.
If you want new features, characters, and technology enhancements every month, go with an Animaze By FaceRig subscription. Or, if you want to stick with the August 22 version and skip the constant improvements and future functionality, you can now pay one time and own today's Animaze forever.

We know not everyone likes subscriptions, and we weren’t trying to force them on you. In fact, we've wanted to give you a one-time-purchase option for a year now but first had to switch off our old motion tracking technology provider that wouldn't allow a perpetual version.

Thanks to our new partnership with an even better tracking tech developer Visage Technologies, we're ready to sell Animaze Plus 22 and Animaze Pro 22. Existing Plus or Pro yearly subscribers (or monthly equivalent) will also have the option of getting free copies of the 2022 feature-locked versions within days of the launch. Still, we hope you understand it requires constant investment from our team to keep operating and improving Animaze. Stick with your subscription to support the Animaze team, and if you want the smoothest, most expressive avatars with all the exciting new features we have in store.


[h2]What does Animaze 22 get you?[/h2]

If you have previously subscribed to Animaze Plus for at least a year, you will be able to have access to the Animaze Plus 22 app for free within days of the launch. Consequently, if you previously subscribed to Animaze Pro for a year, you will be able to automatically access Animaze Pro 22 for free.

Also, if you previously owned the FaceRig app, you will be able to buy either the Animaze Plus 22 or Animaze Pro 22 products at half the price for a limited time only!

Animaze Plus 22, $29.99:

• Remove the watermark
  
• Stream at 60+ FPS
  
• Dedicated capture window
  
• Export video as MP4
  
• Access the entire August 22 Animaze art slate: including avatars, backgrounds, props, and more
  
• 80+ customizable avatars
  
• 35+ customizable backgrounds
  
• 90+ customizable accessories
  

Animaze Pro 22, $149.99:

• Everything in Animaze Plus 22
  
• Pro-Streamer commercial rights for streamers earning $500+ per month/$6000 + per year
  
• Access to select Holotech Originals content sources of your choice, to modify the original avatar/background/prop to better complement your identity (up to 2 avatars, 5 accessories, 2 backgrounds and 3 emotes).
  

Animaze Pro 22 is only needed if you earn more than $6000 per year from Animaze-powered content (or $500 per month).

Here is a breakdown of all the Animaze products. Have a look and decide which app can help you morph into the digital character you’ve envisioned:



As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Happy release day, folks!

Get your creativity flowing with Animaze's new animated background, Animaze Cafe.

This new background is an Iron Vertex collaboration, with special thanks due to our Iron Vertex long-time friends: Brian Tsui (Live2D rigging) and 7MDigital (illustration).

Here's a sneak peek of what the background looks like in the app:

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[h2]Here's how YOU can use this background too![/h2]

Wondering how you can get this awesome animated background in your streams and video content?

The process is quite simple. We've explained in detail here how you can change a background, but here is a brief run-through:

After you've opened the Animaze app, hit the Backgrounds button from the left-hand menu. The backgrounds menu will open and you'll have to look for Animaze Cafe. Click it and let the magic load!



After the background has loaded you will have the chance to go through in-depth customizations. You can either go through them, using the instructions we've prepared for you, or you can just hit save and think of all the great content you're about to create!



Have a fun, creative time with it, and feel free to tag us in any material you'll create with it!



As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team