Epic Games Unveils App for Creating Astoundingly Lifelike Humans

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Epic Games has introduced a new browser-based app that allows game developers to design incredibly realistic, high-fidelity digital humans. Dubbed “MetaHuman Creator,” the Fortnite developer’s advanced tool makes the difficult and time-consuming process of creating high-quality digital humans far easier by leveraging extensive libraries of appearances, which can be used to generate characters that are ready for animation in Unreal Engine.



“MetaHuman Creator is a cloud-streamed app designed to take real-time digital human creation from weeks or months to less than an hour, without compromising on quality,” Epic explained. “It works by drawing from an ever-growing library of variants of human appearance and motion, and enabling you...

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[MadMummy76]

Heh, they are rattled. Recently Daz introduced a plugin that lets you export characters from daz studio directly into unreal engine. I guess epic doesn't want to allow that market to go to another company so they are scrambling to create their own version.

 

[Burticus]

I want this to make a robo face for my zoom meetings.