Live Link Face

Real time facial animation for MetaHumans in Unreal Engine

Live Link Face (Beta) for real time MetaHuman facial animation in Unreal Engine — capture performances from your device.

Real time animation for MetaHumans:

- The Live Link Face app generates animation to drive a MetaHuman Character in real time.
- Animation data is streamed to Unreal Engine over a network using the MetaHuman Live Link Plugin.
- Facial animation can be applied to any MetaHuman character, in just a few clicks.
- This workflow requires a desktop PC running Windows 10/11.

Timecode support for multi-device synchronization:

- Select from the system clock or an NTP server, or use a Tentacle Sync device to connect with a master clock on stage.

Realtime animation support is currently limited to devices with certain Qualcomm chipsets.

The following phone models have been verified as compatible in our own testing:

- OnePlus 12 5G
- ROG Phone 7 Ultimate
- Samsung S23 Ultra
- Samsung S24 USA/Canada/China
- Samsung S24 Ultra
- Sony Xperia 1 VI

The application should be compatible with devices containing the following Qualcomm chipsets. However we cannot guarantee compatibility as phone manufacturers may choose to disable required chipset features.

- Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
- Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
- Snapdragon 8 Elite

Note that the Snapdragon 8s series of chipsets is not supported.