In this post, we will describe a deep learning framework for regressing facial animation controls from video that both addresses these challenges and opens us up to a number of future opportunities. This is particularly challenging at Roblox, where we support a dizzying array of user devices, real-world conditions, and wildly creative use cases from our developers. Despite numerous research breakthroughs, there are limited commercial examples of real-time facial animation applications. However, animating virtual 3D character faces in real time is an enormous technical challenge. On the 30th of August 2021, 2021, composer Hideki Naganuma who is most well-known for his composition of music for the Jet Set Radio Future soundtrack posted a photo of his Man face on Twitter, along with a brief description drawn from the Roblox Wikipedia, and gained more than 8,300 followers and 1,100 retweets over one period of one week (shown beneath).Facial expression is a critical step in Roblox’s march towards making the metaverse a part of people’s daily lives through natural and believable avatar interactions. account began posting photoshopped images that added the character’s face to characters from other games as well as other media assets (early examples below). The account was launched in April of 2021. It’s explained on a video uploaded on YouTube by Laughability in March 2021 in which he explains why many people have the face, and also refers to it in a humorous way as an”cult” (shown in the video below).Ī mug featuring the Man face can be purchased from Etsy. On March 27 the TikToker account shared the video of her showing off her new mug with more than 2.3 million views in just six weeks (shown in the video below). Roblox YouTubers MoFlare, Craxel and Sebee significantly contributed to spreading the popularity of the face after they used the image on their YouTube videos. The Man Face became significantly popular with players during the period of 2021. The video gained over 3.2 million views over seven weeks (shown in the video below).

In December 2020, the Twitter account which translates to “random images but the roblox man face is on it,” began to post photoshops featuring the face on other objects and characters. On February 5 2021, YouTuber Flamingo uploaded a video entitled “ROBLOX MAN FACE” playing the game alongside others playing using the face.

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