FaceFX announced today the release of $199 facial animation plugins for 3ds Max, Maya, XSI and MotionBuidler in a press release:

Research Triangle Park, NC - May 26th 2010 - The facial animation solution powering over 150 triple-A game titles is now being sold as an affordable line of plugins for several popular Autodesk animation packages. For $199, the same technology driving blockbuster video game characters is available to animators on a shoestring budget. To make the deal even sweeter, a single FaceFX plugin license can be shared across team members on different computers using a flexible and powerful licensing system.

Check out the youtube channel "facialanimation" for samples and video tutorials. An evalaution is available from the facefx website.

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Is this plugin any better the the softimage face robot?
XSI is called Autodesk Softimage now, did you mean that the plugin is for the old version of softimage that was called XSI and had no Face Robot in it?

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Andyba, 3d artist
skills: 3d modeling, texturing, rendering, 3d character animation, compositing
3d software experience: 3ds max, Maya, Softimage XSI, Deep Paint 3d, Body Paint 3D, Wings 3D, Z Brush
2d software experience: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After effects, Macromedia Flash, Freehand