i think you would have to be extremely talented to actually get to a level where you can pull that off. which would be a strange use of talent, but. tech like the metahuman creator is a long way off being able to replicate humans completely. at the moment its main use will be for creating secondary or non playable characters in games. but with tools like this making digital humans accessible to everyone and anyone, we will certainly be seeing more of them in future. or maybe we won t as they ll all just look like the rest of us. great stuff. now one of the big differences between playing a game and watching a movie is that you, the player, can become the star of it. in fact, many games allow you to customise your avatar so you can just become a virtual version of yourself. but that hasn t always been the case. we have been taking a look at how far black representation truly has come in games in the last few years, and what one mother and daughter
to choose from to make our own new person. when you use the tool, really what is happening when you pick and move a point, sometimes you might think it s like sculpting, but actually what s doing is when you move that point it is finding the best fit from what we have available in that database, to where you are moving that point. people started doing work with the characters within unreal engine, and i think that s when they have really come to life actually, because when you see what a skilled artist can do, someone that knows how to work with light and composition with these characters, we have seen short films and performances. speaks japanese. i was intrigued to find out what a professional would do with dana, so i enlisted the help of swedish 3d artist anton palmqvist. he had already been experimenting with metahuman, and made these fantastic characters. oh wow! she looks so much more real, doesn t she?
ill minded people use this. but the amount of work required to do something like that, i think you would have to be extremely talented to actually get to a level where you can pull that off. which would be a strange use of talent, but. tech like the metahuman creator is a long way off being able to replicate humans completely. at the moment its main use will be for creating secondary or non playable characters in games. but with tools like this making digital humans accessible to everyone and anyone, we will certainly be seeing more of them in future. or maybe we won t as they ll all just look like the rest of us. great stuff. now one of the big differences between playing a game and watching a movie is that you, the player, can become the star of it. in fact, many games allow you to customise your avatar so you can just become a virtual version of yourself. but that hasn t always been the case. we have been taking a look
brilliant. that was chris. now, making video game characters or virtual humans in movies generally looks like this. it often takes weeks, sometimes months, even. and so, it is usually reserved for the big triple a games or moviemakers with big ideas and even bigger budgets. but that is about to change. take a look at these. they look pretty real, don t they? but of course these are completely fabricated digital renders, made using a new creator tool from epic games. my name is kai. i am a metahuman, just like all the others. it is my first day on the job. yes, the technology used to create these characters, these digital renderings of humans, has just become a lot easier, faster and accessible to more of us. alex humphreys has been finding out more. today s filming location is pretty epic. i have come to the london innovation lab, home to some
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