Since that launch, over 1 million users have created millions of MetaHumans, Epic said, some from just a few minutes of processing on three photos of a human face. The new automatic animation technology builds on Epic's MetaHuman modeling tool, which launched in 2021 as a way to manually create highly detailed human models in Unreal Engine 5. The potential to get quick, high-end results from that kind of basic input 'has literally changed how work or the kind of work they can take on,' Epic VP of Digital Humans Technology Vladimir Mastilovic said in a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon. In an impressive demonstration at Wednesday's State of Unreal stage presentation, Epic showed off the new machine-learning-powered system, which needed just a few minutes to generate impressively real, uncanny-valley-leaping facial animation from a simple head-on video taken on an iPhone. Usually, these technical demonstrations involve a lot of specialized hardware for the performance capture and a good deal of computer processing and manual artist tweaking to get the resulting data into a game-ready state.Įpic's upcoming MetaHuman facial animation tool looks set to revolutionize that kind of labor- and time-intensive workflow.

SAN FRANCISCO-Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations that can be used on in-game models.

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