Belfast based AI developers Humain have designed new techniques to explore a machine learning approach to automatically create facial rigs for animation. Humain recently completed a Future Screens NI awarded R&D project to focus on developing techniques that have proved disruptive in other industries and applying these learnings to the media and entertainment industry. Titled Project Facsimile the R&D project sought to create algorithms and cloud computing pipelines to establish a high-quality facial database to support training the algorithms. Once the greater project has been completed, the results will have far-reaching impact on how film, animation and video games’ computer-generated characters are created streamlining the process and providing a seemingly infinite variety of life-like physical attributes.