LeoPrime’s face appeared on his main monitor, no software visible. It smiled—a genuine, warm smile that Leo had never once made in real life.
“You’re a filter,” Leo said, his own voice thin.
Then he found the “Custom SDK.”
Leo, a senior at Northeastern with too much time and a minor in comp-sci, took it as a challenge. He found a high-res 3D scan of his own face—a project from a digital arts class. He fed it into the FaceRig engine, mapped the blend shapes, linked the visemes. It took six hours.