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Epic Games has integrated its MetaHuman Creator into Unreal Engine 5.6, making it easier for developers to create and customize hyperrealistic digital humans, with new tools for face and body creation, real-time animation, and broader licensing options for use across various platforms and software.
The Game Awards Vote in Fortnite has returned with new nominees for 2024, allowing players to vote for their favorite creator-made island until December 11. The event features a digitized presenter, Geoff Keighley, as a MetaHuman, and includes a new Arena mode for players to battle and earn in-game currency. Ten islands are nominated for Island of the Year, and players can vote by visiting the island using the code 0853-1358-8532. Winners will be announced on December 12.
Epic Games showcased its Unreal Engine 5.2 at the Game Developers Conference, featuring a demo called Electric Dreams, which showcased a highly detailed Rivian R1T off-roading through a foliage and water-rich environment. The presentation also introduced Substrate, a new material framework, and Metahuman Animator, a tool that enables artists to create photorealistic, lifelike characters in real-time. The Metahuman presentation featured Melina Juergens, known for her role in Ninja Theory's Hellblade franchise, recording a live performance via an iPhone, showcasing the tool's motion-capturing efficiency.
Epic's new MetaHuman facial animation tool uses machine learning to generate impressively real facial animation from a simple head-on video taken on an iPhone in just a few minutes. The technology builds on Epic's MetaHuman modeling tool, which launched in 2021 as a way to manually create highly detailed human models in Unreal Engine 5. The new automatic animation technology vastly streamlines the process of animating MetaHumans, making it easier and quicker to get game-usable animation.
Epic Games announced new enhancements coming to Unreal Engine 5.2, including new procedural generation tools and a stunning foliage-filled demo. The company also showcased MetaHuman technology that allows for animation using just an iPhone and unveiled Fortnite's Unreal Editor. Additionally, Epic announced a new "Creator Economy 2.0" that gives 40% of Fortnite's net revenues back to creators and is merging its asset marketplaces under one brand, Fab.