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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe company behind 'Fortnite' just made it shockingly easy to create lifelike people
Before it released its megahit game Fortnite, Epic was known for creating one of the most popular video game engines in the world, which serves as the backbone of countless games you love: the Unreal Engine. While Fortnite is defined by its cartoony-meme violence, the Unreal Engine has been celebrated for pushing the bounds of visual realism.
And now, Epic is sharing its latest breakthrough on its engine with a feature called MetaHumans. MetaHumans are highly convincing, completely digital people. The twist? While high-end digital characters can require a month or more to create, an artist using MetaHumans can construct them in mere minutes.
In the video above, you can see just how convincing the MetaHumans look. Their skin ranges from porcelain to freckled to wrinkled, sun-weathered leather. When they speak, their lips dont appear to pop out from the model (as so many artificially generated faces do) but are clearly connected to the skin and muscles through the entire face. And each individual figure simply looks splendid regardless of where it falls on the spectrum of gender or racean equal amount of attention has been paid to any type of protagonist youre looking to create. In fact, a spokesperson tells us that Epic is able to generate such a diversity of faces because its actually scanned peoples faces from around the world, integrating the data (blended and anonymously) into this tool.
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https://www.fastcompany.com/90603474/the-company-behind-fortnite-just-made-it-shockingly-easy-to-create-life-like-people
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These types of advancements will help not only Game Makers but others who want to utilize digital actors in new ways without breaking the budget. iPhone, Blender (just 2 examples) and many other tools coming available for budding future producers! This is a new frontier.
Thank you for posting.
Edited to ad: Like others here, I find that this is both fascinating and scary at the same time. This new technology is incredible. How it might be used by nefarious actors is another matter altogether...
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(30,613 posts)Holy crap that's scary.