JALI Research Inc.

JALI’s automated lip sync and facial animation
software empowers digital storytellers to easily craft
naturally, richly expressive characters and avatars.

JALI Powered.

JALI offers production teams a powerful, flexible, and easy to use suite of tools to direct unforgettable digital performances with best-in-class automated lip sync, expressive multilingual facial animation, and high-performance rigging and pipeline solutions.

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Automatic lip sync in seconds.

Generate language-specific expressive lip synchronization from audio and text (or TTS inputs), fully customizable speech styles and dynamic facial performances, and easy-to-edit animation curves.

Generate expressive full-facial animation.

Animate and direct full character performance with eye motion (blink, gaze, saccades), brows, custom expression settings, speech settings, character profiling, emotion tagging, asymmetry, and head and neck motion.

Quality at scale.

All of JALI’s workflow can be fully-automated through scripting. The software features a user-friendly interface for handling batch animation, rig connections, and exporting.

Animate digital actors for any performance.

Hero characters and NPCs, digital assistants, VR training, and interactive chatbots all need believable and compelling facial animation and lip sync. With JALI, you can direct the right performance for a given context: in production or in real-time when using text-to-speech.

A built-in respect for the craft of animation.

We are animators at heart. JALI’s procedural animation system employs intelligent automation and is designed with a deep understanding of the principles of rigging and animation craft. This allows JALI to integrate seamlessly into industry-standard pipelines and produce output that mirrors, and can be edited, as if your own animator had authored it themselves.

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Language specificity goes beyond representation.

“The overall quality of facial performance is one thing, but another thing is nailing down the correct, colloquial, or language-specific way of speaking that every native is expecting from the character they talk to. I think having characters that resonate and cross those international boundaries in this pretty personal way can be very powerful.”

Sebastien Kalemba, Head of Animation, Cyberpunk 2077

Automatic animation: instantly generated, limitlessly refined

JALI isn’t a black box that returns automatically generated animation. Often, JALI is the first step in creating cinematic-level animations. JALI produces sparse, one dimensional animation curves that can easily be edited, iterated, or blended with keyframe or motion capture animation directly in Maya. The art of digital character animation is constantly evolving, and our tools are flexible enough to redefine the future of animation — whatever form it takes next.

Your Success is our Success.

JALI is committed to your project’s success. Build billion dollar franchises, power unforgettable performances, hit technical art and pipeline milestones and innovations, and make more competitive outsource bids.

For one off proof of concepts to multi-year deals we provide custom levels of support from kick-off to completion, we’re on your team.

What our customers are saying

For every character in our game, every character throughout our entire world, we’ve achieved high quality lip sync and expressed emotions with JALI.

Mateusz Poplawski, Technical Character Director, CD Projekt Red

Using JALI allowed us to implement highly-detailed digital characters across multiple languages in an amazingly fast time. The software was intuitive and easy to work with and allowed us to shine above a number of highly resourced and established competitors. We have always found that being able to iterate quickly and creatively is crucial to success. We can now say with confidence that JALI will be a central component to our digital character design pipeline moving forwards.

– Spectre Studios

One of Cyberpunk2077’s most impressive systems has to be JALI. JALI is software capable of complete automation of lip syncing and facial animation that offers developers complete control to fine tune the end result. The new technology has been a boon to the animators, and one that they argue they couldn’t be without.

– PC Gamer UK Dec 2020 Issue

When I think about this relationship between CD Projekt Red and JALI in general…it reminds me of the quote from John Lasseter who once said that ‘the art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art’. In my opinion, what we’ve managed to achieve with Cyberpunk 2077 proves that.

– Sebastien Kalemba, Director of Animation, CD Projekt Red

We (Raven Software) have been focused on getting our mocap teams familiar with the tool to expand our ability to produce large amounts of data when needed.  It’s incredibly exciting stuff!

– Martin McBain, Animation Director, Raven Software

Connecting JALI with the MetaHuman rig was an incredibly easy process. It was magical how it worked so well.

– Shinsaku Arima, Lead Technical Animator, Koei Tecmo Games

We gave a demo (of JALI) to our researchers and they’ve seen the future of lip sync at the MPI.

– Jeroen Derks, Content Creator, The Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics

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Different paths to priceless execution.

Our different pricing and licensing options were created in order to meet the unique needs of a wide variety of users. Whether you’re an indie shop with big ambitions or a massive commercial studio with big demands, we can put together a licensing structure and workflow solution that fits your needs.

To see if the JALI suite of tools is right for your production, email us today to connect with a member of the JALI sales team for a free evaluation.

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The humans
behind the tech

Our team members are both artists and scientists, with a combined 94 years of graphics research and animation experience. Our process is grounded in a deep understanding of anatomy, perception, linguistics, performance theory, graphics, and craft. In 2020 we launched our first product offering in conjunction with the much anticipated AAA game release, Cyberpunk2077, with development partners CD Projekt Red. Since then we’ve worked with dozens of teams, to help power their facial animation pipelines. We are constantly innovating our software far beyond expressive lip sync to develop powerful interactive facial animation pipeline solutions. And we’re just getting started.