FFVII Rebirth Character Facial Animations Focus of New Lecture

Square Enix revealed that FFVII Remake and FFVII Rebirth Facial Director Akira Iwasawa will offer a new lecture on character facial animations focused on the latest title in the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy. The lecture will be held on November 22, 2024 between 8 and 9pm JST as part of the CGWORLD 2024 Creative Conference.

The key points in the new FFVII Rebirth facial animation lecture will delve into facial rig setup flow, cutscene creation flow, including facial capture photography and multilingual support, as well as planner event creation flow, which delves into automatic lip-syncing and character facial animations for simple events.

Akira Iwasawa joined Square Enix in 2000 and is currently the facial director for the FFVII Remake trilogy project. His credits include participating in the development of the Kingdom Heart series, as well as the FFVII Advent Children movie, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, The 3rd Birthday, Final Fantasy Type-0, Lightning Returns FFXIII, Drakengard 3, and Final Fantasy XV. Iwasawa previously participated on a seminar about character setup in FFXV, talking about facial details and parts for the game.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is available for the PlayStation 5. Square Enix announced that the game will be compatible with the PS5 Pro Enhanced feature when the console launches in November 7, 2024.