Like all technological advancements, it could also be used for pornography. It democratizes the creation of hyper realistic digital human faces and will cut the production time of some video games and films by huge amounts. It’s impressive tech, but like with all technology, there will be unforeseen consequences. Epic Games had previously used this tech to transform a motion captured Andy Serkis into an alien fish-man, live, while he performed the “Tomorrow” monologue from Shakeaspere’s MacBeth In 2018, Epic Games showed off its ' Synthetic Human' technology called Siren at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The technology is impressive and sits firmly in the uncanny valley. “You’ll also get the source data in the form of a Maya file, including meshes, skeleton, facial rig, animation controls, and materials.” “When you’re happy with your human, you can download the asset via Quixel Bridge, fully rigged and ready for animation and motion capture in Unreal Engine, and complete with LODs,” it said. You can choose a starting point by selecting a number of preset faces to contribute to your human from the diverse range in the database.”Įpic Games said that users can select from 30 hair styles and 18 different body types.

“As you make adjustments, MetaHuman Creator blends between actual examples in the library in a plausible, data-constrained way. “It works by drawing from an ever-growing library of variants of human appearance and motion, and enabling you to create convincing new characters through intuitive workflows that let you sculpt and craft the result you want,” Epic Games said on its website.

According to Epic Games, MetaHuman Creator is a cloud-based app.

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