Digimation announced the release of Facegen, a plugin for 3ds max 3 and 4 that lets users generate faces parametrically. Facegen can create cartoonish aliens as well as realistic human heads with just a few mouse clicks and is useful for quickly generating an entire population of unique models. FaceGen also comes with a set of Custom Mesh components that let you add among other things a skeletal structure beneath the modified model that will fit perfectly. This takes the pain out of trying to match eyes, teeth and tongue to a model, since the custom components are aware of the surrounding mesh and will align as expected.

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