The Benchmark For Digital Humans

3D facial scanning, photometric capture, and 4D performance capture for games, film, and digital humans.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

01 / Our expertise

Look Development
& Modeling

World class look development brings digital humans to life through skin shading, textures, materials, and lighting. Grounded in over a decade of capture expertise, we preserve the subtle surface detail and light response that make a face believable, shaping the final look for your production.

Supporting services include facial modeling and likeness refinement, with digital de-aging available for projects that call for it.

Photometric Capture

Our photometric process records skin under controlled lighting patterns and polarized illumination, revealing how its color, fine detail, and reflections change with the light.

Ecco is a licensed user of patented photometric capture technology from USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).

Cross and parallel polarized captures help separate diffuse color from surface reflections. We process these images into albedo, specular, and normal maps, then combine the captured surface detail with geometry for modeling, shading, and look development.

The result is a detailed foundation for skin that can be lit for your scene, preserving the pores, creases, and subtle variations that make each person distinctive.

Jeana C16 cross polarized preview — CROSS POLARIZED

Jeana C16 parallel polarized preview — PARALLEL POLARIZED

Jeana C16 specular normals preview — SPECULAR NORMALS

Jeana C16 diffuse normals preview — DIFFUSE NORMALS

Jeana C16 rgb displacement preview — RGB DISPLACEMENT

Jeana L3 mesh ambient occlusion rendered from camera C16 — AMBIENT OCCLUSION

The detail behind the realism

Our capture and processing preserve the fine surface geometry of skin, from pores to subtle creases, alongside its color and reflectance. Together, these details give digital skin its shape, texture, and realism under changing light.

Rendered skin studies

Eye-area comparison

Forehead surface detail: render — Render

Forehead comparison

Cheek and mouth surface detail: real — Real

Cheek and mouth surface detail: render — Render

Cheek and mouth comparison

FACs Capture

Facial Action Coding System (FACS) scanning captures isolated facial actions and expression combinations. FACS certified Facial Director, Dan Platt, guides each session to build a consistent expression set that preserves the way each performer realistically moves their face.

We plan the expressions around your character and rig requirements, giving your team detailed reference for facial modeling and animation.

Dan facial capture: Eye Closure, Lip Pucker — Eye Closure, Lip Pucker
AU 43Eye Closure
AU 18Lip Pucker

Dan facial capture: Open Face — Open Face
AU 5Upper Lid Raise
AU 1Inner Brow Raise
AU 27Mouth Stretch
AU 2Outer Brow Raise

Dan facial capture: Anger — Anger
AU 4Brow Lowerer
AU 6Cheek Raise
AU 26Jaw Drop
AU 9Nose Wrinkle
AU 16Lower Lip Depress
AU 20Lip Stretch

Dan facial capture: Scrunch Face — Scrunch Face
AU 4Brow Lowerer
AU 6Cheek Raise
AU 17Chin Raiser
AU 43Eye Closure
AU 14Dimpler
AU 15Lip Corner Depressor
AU 24Lip Presser
AU 7Lids Tight

4D Capture

4D capture records the changing shape of the face over time, preserving the movement of skin, the interplay of facial muscles, and the subtle transitions between expressions. From a subtle smile to a full performance, this changing geometry gives artists a detailed foundation for facial animation, rig development, and believable digital characters.

FACS & Combos

Harvard Sentences

Neck Turns

Mouth & Tongue Movements

ECCO × FACEFORM

Ecco’s photometric and 4D capture meet Faceform’s ML facial rig development. Talk with us about how this collaboration can support your character and production workflow.

Discuss your project

Tony facial expression mesh alongside Faceform facial rig controls

Gaussian Splatting

Gaussian splatting preserves the look of the original shoot, including lighting, reflections, and fine visual detail, while letting you explore the scene from different angles and distances.

A traditional 3D asset is built to be animated and lit for new scenes. A splat recreates what the cameras recorded, making it useful for immersive experiences, exploring locations, and production reference.

Trusted by industry leaders

02 / OUR WORK

Part of the worlds
you play

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach cover artwork — Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

Ghost of Yōtei cover artwork — Ghost of Yōtei

Marvel’s Wolverine cover artwork — Marvel’s Wolverine

Immortals of Aveum cover artwork — Immortals of Aveum

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle cover artwork — Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Silent Hill 2 cover artwork — Silent Hill 2

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor cover artwork — Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

Horizon Forbidden West cover artwork — Horizon Forbidden West

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 cover artwork — Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

FILM & TELEVISION

Beyond the game
Onto the screen

Love, Death & Robots poster — Love, Death & Robots

Terminator: Dark Fate poster — Terminator: Dark Fate

03 / ABOUT ECCO

A DECADE OF EXPERTISE
A LASTING OBSESSION

What began with capturing a likeness became an obsession with everything that makes it believable. The smallest skin detail, the way a face moves, and how it responds to light. That pursuit has shaped our technology, our craft, and the way we work with every production.

Along the way, we’ve helped refine capture practices and raise expectations for quality. Leading companies in games, film, and television have trusted Ecco to help bring their characters to audiences around the world.

OVER A DECADE OF CAPTURE

Years of scanning real people and solving production challenges inform every decision we make. Our expertise connects capture, modeling, and look development, with an understanding of what artists need to carry a character through to the final frame.

The technology keeps evolving
The obsession stays

We continue to refine our tools, question our methods, and push for a better result. Because the goal has never changed. Create digital humans that preserve the detail, character, and individuality of the people behind them.

04 / Start a conversation

Tell us what you’re creating
We can help you bring it to life

Ecco Scanning Service LLC
2340 Plaza Del Amo, Suite 100
Torrance, CA 90501