Headshot Image Workflow: Turn Any Photo into a 3D Head
AI-Empowered 3D Head Generator
CREATE DIGITAL DOUBLES FROM PHOTOS
Headshot 3 represents a major leap forward in digital identity. Powered by Reallusion’s proprietary AI model, it is specifically designed for accurate image-to-3D head reconstruction and trained on a vast dataset of facial scans. It can interpret facial landmarks, depth, and subtle anatomical features from facial images.
Unmatched Precision
Worldwide Ethnicities
All Age Ranges
START WITH IMAGE OR TEXT
When the perfect photo reference isn’t available, the AI Image Generator comes to the rescue with high-quality, front-facing images on demand. With a simple prompt, you can describe the look you’re aiming for or transform your own photos with expression removal, angle correction, balanced lighting, and enhanced resolution, making them easier to work with. Manual
IMPORT CUSTOM IMAGES
Drop in a photo to start your 3D head creation process. Enhance it with AI-generated profile and full-body views to create a comprehensive image set or use them as references for manual refinement.
GENERATE IMAGES WITH AI
Describe a character’s appearance, age, or gender with a simple prompt to instantly generate high-quality reference images ready for 3D conversion.
MAKE EVERY PHOTO THE PERFECT SHOT
Shadows, occlusions, and off-angle shots can compromise reference photos for texture generation. Headshot 3’s AI tools can automatically neutralize facial expressions, balance lighting, remove stray hairs, and upscale source images to 4K in preparation for high-res texture projection. Tutorial | Manual
ENHANCE FACIAL DISTINCTIONS WITH MORPH PRESETS
HIGHLIGHT FACIAL CHARACTERISTICS
To increase the precision of 3D head construction, facial feature presets can be used to enhance depth and capture subtle traits that may not be fully inferred from front-facing images alone. The system includes 58 presets organized by major facial zones, each applied as an adjustable slider, allowing users to easily revisit and fine-tune settings at any time in the “Currently Used” panel. Tutorial | Manual
ENHANCE AI GENERATION WITH DEPTH DATA AND SHAPE GUIDANCE
Discover how preset morphs enhance generated results and streamline post-editing.
Hover over the images below to preview animations, or watch the full video demonstration.
ULTIMATE SHAPE REFINEMENTS
Use Splines To Optimize Topology & Mesh Distribution
Bezier curves trace facial features with precision, while portrait and profile adjustments remain independent. Planar morphs do not affect the depth of side morphs, and vice versa. Designed for characters with double eyelids, deep-set eye sockets, and nasolabial folds, each refinement aligns cleanly with CC topology to prepare the face for animation.
Tutorial | Manual
3D LENS CORRECTION
Photos taken with a smartphone or camera often include lens distortion that deviates from the original subject. Headshot provides a simple slider to correct this distortion, restoring accurate proportions for 3D models. Manual
SCULPT & SHAPE FACE WITH EASE
Sculpt any area of the face directly on-screen without the need to locate specific sliders. This intuitive 3D sculpt morph system allows you to hover over a control region and adjust the mesh shape using directional mouse movements. It can automatically switches between front and side morphs based on the character’s perspective. Based on Headshot Morph 1000+, controls span six levels of detail — from overall head contour down to individual features. Manual
Sculpt Morph UI Overview
Sculpt Morph UI Overview
TEXTURE REPROJECTION
After any 3D model change, lens correction, or face morph adjustment, use Reprojection to reproject UVs onto the updated mesh and eliminate alignment discrepancies. Apply progressive photo reprojection iteratively across the head, ears, eyes, nose, and lips for a perfect image match. Manual
ADVANCED TEXTURE ENHANCEMENT
De-lighting & Redness
De-light textures to correct uneven lighting, remove shadows, and produce clean, consistent albedo maps. The skin redness tool provides further color correction to balance and restore natural-looking skin tones. Manual
Primary & Secondary Normals
Headshot 3 normal texture generator extracts rich 3D detail from any source image, offering two levels of granularity for optimal control. The primary level captures broader features such as muscle definition and deep wrinkles, while the secondary level adds fine details like pores and wrinkle lines. Manual
Skin Texture Upscaler
When only a low-resolution source image is available. The local skin texture upscaler serves as a backup solution to enhance fine skin details and balance overall skin quality. Check AI Image Generation - Modification
Skin Base Selections
Start with a skin preset that matches your character’s age and facial hair to establish the base skin layer. Headshot provides a wide range of preset foundations to accelerate blending and masking, helping you achieve the perfect textures for your characters. Manual
Enhance & Replace Facial Texture
Once your character is created, you can continue refining or replacing facial textures at any time in Headshot 3. Swap flat texture-based hair for fully modeled 3D hair, or enhance texture quality and detail using AI Image Generator. Because all edits remain within the texture layer, the original mesh and UV mapping stay completely intact. Manual
- INCREASE RESOLUTION
- REMOVE HAIR
Blend Masking
The Blend Mask integrates the generated facial textures and the underlying skin base as a seamless map for the entire head model. Use the mask brush or prebuilt templates to remove shadows, hair, eyelashes, scars, lip creases from the source image. Manual
- Custom Mask Painting
- Template Mask
3D HEAD TO FULL CHARACTER
3D BODY CUSTOMIZATION
Photo-based Body Generation
Drop in a full-body reference photo and let AI automatically generate a matching body shape to complete your character.
Body Type Selection
Choose a body type from a range of ages, genders, and physiques to complete your character, or select the current shape to continue your progress. Manual
AUTOMATIC SKIN MATCHING
Headshot 3 can automatically match the body’s skin tone to the generated 3D head, ensuring a consistent overall appearance. The resulting color can then be refined or resampled directly from the scene for further customization. Manual
EYE COLOR SELECTION
Automatically detect the eye color from your source photo and apply it to the iris. Alternatively, use the color picker to set a custom color and fine-tune the real-time eye shader for full control. Manual
HAIR CREATION
Smart Search for Lifelike Hairstyles
Simply drag and drop your source image into Smart Search, then select the Hair category to get recommended hair models directly from the Reallusion content ecosystem.
Generate Low-poly Mesh Hair
Headshot generates 3D hair mesh based on the input image, creating additional mesh layers for alpha masking to soften the hair line. The generated hair is conformable to different head shapes and saved in interoperable ccHair format.
