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Epic Games Announces MetaHuman Creator, A Handy Tool for Creating Realistic 3D Characters

How to use it is almost the same as the character customization feature in RPG games

Creating realistic 3D human characters is not an easy job. Sometimes, the process can take up to weeks for just one character, and that too has been done by a fairly senior 3D artist.

But according to Epic Games, in the future it doesn't have to be that complicated. They just introduced a platform new content creation named MetaHumanCreator. The premise is quite simple: with only a browser on a computer, we can already create a very realistic 3D character in a matter of minutes.

Without being surprised, MetaHuman Creator uses Unreal Engine as the main foundation, there are also facial animation technologies designed by 3Lateral and Cubic Motion, two expert companies that have be a part of the big Epic Games family.

If you've ever played game An RPG that offers character customization features, you should be able to operate tool This MetaHuman Creator. The reason, the process is really similar and intuitive. You just have to choose the desired face shape, hair style, skin texture, to body proportions, and preview the digital man will also be displayed automatically real-time.

Once satisfied with the result, we can download the assets via software Quixel Bridge. Furthermore, the 3D assets can be animated directly, including using the method motion capture iPhone based. Even more special, the animation that has been completed can apparently also be applied to other characters that were also created using MetaHuman Creator.

Of course this is good news for game developer who do use platform Unreal Engine. For them, presence tool such as MetaHuman Creator can not only help save time, but may also save money. In order to attract the attention of developer, Epic has also released samples of 3D human characters which they are free to modify further using the Unreal Engine.

Apart from industry game, MetaHuman Creator of course also has great potential in the film industry, or even for more specific needs, like VTuber for example. It's not yet known when MetaHuman Creator will be made available to the public, but Epic Games is targeting a release schedule this year as well. Epic is also planning to open the program early access in the next few months.

Sumber: Epic Games.

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