04/11/2021 - One of the festival’s Training Ground days was dedicated to this up-and-coming field, and involved input from Nancy Xu, Johannes Wilke, Evgeny Kalachikhin and Pedro Domingo
One of the festival’s Training Ground days was dedicated to this up-and-coming field, and involved input from Nancy Xu, Johannes Wilke, Evgeny Kalachikhin and Pedro Domingo
It may take a few days for Epic to grant you access on April 14, 2021, 15:42 15 comments
In a nutshell: Epic s Metahuman Creator promises to make content creators lives a snap when designing CG character models. The tool went live today in early access, but expect to wait a few days or longer to get into the application. Epic does not want to overwhelm the servers all at once.
Back in February, Epic Games unveiled a cloud-based Unreal Engine tool called Metahuman Creator that allows graphic designers to quickly create CG 3D human models for use in video games or movies. Words alone can barely do justice to the realism of the textures and animation. If you missed it, it s best just to let the characters speak for themselves, as you can see in the video from February below.
Epic Games Reveals MetaHuman Creator for Unreal Engine
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Designing lifelike humans in a video game can be a time-consuming process for video game developers, but the new MetaHuman Creator for Unreal Engine could make it a much simpler process. According to Epic Games, the cloud-streamed app features a number of different options for crafting MetaHuman characters, including hairstyles and body types. Users start by selecting from preset faces and then make adjustments. Once the user is done, the creation can be downloaded through Quixel Bridge for use in Unreal Engine. MetaHuman Creator will be free with Unreal Engine, providing this technology to a much greater pool of potential users.
The new tool is a cloud-based computer app that can reduce the time it takes developers to create "real-time digital humans" from weeks to under an hour.