Epic's New MetaHuman Tool Lets You Craft Realistic Faces Inside a Browser

Epic Games has announced a new, browser-based software tool powered by its Unreal Engine called the MetaHuman Creator that can craft highly realistic human faces and help power more realistic body movements and facial animations. The Verge reports: Epic says the MetaHuman Creator can be used in conjunction with modern motion capture and animation techniques for creating lifelike movements and human interactions scenes built for video games, film, TV, and other formats. The company says these photorealistic humans can be generated in a matter of minutes and equipped with unique hairstyles and clothing, and then they can be tailored further to meet the needs of a production. And these "metahumans" can be manipulated in real time within the tool itself and just using a web browser, Epic says. It's not clear when Epic intends to release MetaHuman Creator outside a broad 2021 release window, but interested developers and artists can sign up for updates on the Unreal Engine website. You can examples of creations built using the MetaHuman Creator via these two YouTube videos.

Not bad...

[Kotukunui]

The Uncanny Valley is now a lot less of a canyon and more of a shallow depression...

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[arglebargle_xiv]

Who cares about the uncanny valley, the really important question is for any computer-generated human is always: How big can you make her tits?

Dude, we've grown up since the 90s..

[Wescotte]

It's not about size anymore it's about how realistically they move.

Browser based too?

[iamhassi]

And this can all be created within a browser? Scary. We won’t need riots in the future, someone can create rioters in a browser and claim they represent whatever group they want the rioters to represent.

I know this technology existed before, but this sounds like it far easier for the masses to acquire and use.

Anticipating deep fake video and sound bites

[GTData]

Spew billions of hours of deep fake video instead of trolling twitter tweets to influence people.

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[Forty Two Tenfold]

Stanisaw Lem [wikipedia.org] already described this.

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[DrackenFireBreather]

Between this and deepfakes, it'll make it easier to manipulate the masses like how they did in The Running Man when Arnold Schwarzenegger's character Ben Richards was killed by "Captain Freedom". https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

Are non-human supported too?

[advid.net]

Could this tool support also non-human characters like elves?

If it's just a matter of pointy ears it should be okay.

Maybe not for beastfolk and oni, since there's no horns option I guess. No furry ears neither...

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[KingBenny]

yea, its that thing with the pr0n-community, right ? it looks all great and snazzy but the "inyourbrowserstreaming-app-cloud" makes me suspect its gonna be after adobe and not usable by bums-for-free unless you stick with the standard model and hyper-symmetry ... i didnt see anything about standalone clients you can work with offline (a must for paranoid people) or pricing at all ... but i did subscribe, maybe they get proper linux support in 5 - 10 years and its worth installing (that was like 130gb on a d

Pretty soon

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Pretty soon these will be controllable in real-time. Scammers will model one after someone you know, and you'll get a call from your "wife" or a "friend" who claims they have an "emergency" and needs your help (i.e. money, etc).

The face and the voice will eventually be good enough to fool you.

Not whole body

[BAReFO0t]

Lame.

But I guess Catholiban child rapist cultures would put underwear over pussies or at least penises anyway.