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Epic Games are making a character creator with ridiculously realistic facesYou can download two sample creations right now
You can download two sample creations right now
Kick Keanu to the curb and Mads Mikkelsen too. Sorry lads, we dont need your very real human faces in video games anymore. Epic Games are working on a tool to create very real looking fake humans that they say can reduce the time it takes to make digital characters from weeks to just an hour. The MetaHuman Creator isn’t available just yet, but Epic have published two sample humans (a horrifying phrase!) that you can download for use in their Unreal Engine.
They demonstrate a very quick look at the tool’s browser-based workflow in the video just below and it really does look about like messing around in a particularly detailed game character creator. I suspect it goes a bit deeper than that if you really know what you’re doing though.
MetaHuman Creator: High-Fidelity Digital Humans Made Easy | Unreal EngineWatch on YouTube
MetaHuman Creator: High-Fidelity Digital Humans Made Easy | Unreal Engine
To demonstrate the possibilities, they’ve published two “sample humans”. Here’s a closer look at the two of them.
Meet the MetaHumans: Free Sample Now Available | Unreal EngineWatch on YouTube
Meet the MetaHumans: Free Sample Now Available | Unreal Engine
I might have nightmares about a person saying “I am fully rigged, ready for animation and motion capture,” but heck it sure is quite realistic innit?
The MetaHuman Creator isn’t ready just yet, but Epic say they’ll be releasing it as part of an early access program in the next few months. You can read a bit more and download your sample humans over inEpic’s post.
