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[IbizaPocholo]

Unreal Engine 5's MetaHuman is getting a new update called Animator to create new fully animated facial models in real time with just a phone camera. The team from Ninja Theory, including Senua actor Melina Juergens shows this process in real time.

 

[GymWolf]

Simply the future.

Curious to see if people like nd are gonna make better faces without ue5.

 

[Spyxos]

This is almost indistinguishable from real people.

 

[GymWolf]

This is the answer to people asking what constitute nextgen graphic.

 

[winjer]

The result is impressive. But the most impressive part is that all it takes is something a simple as a phone, to capture an actors performance.
This will be revolutionary for indie games, that have much smaller budgets.

 

[Drizzlehell]

Damn, back in the day all I wanted is for Lara Croft to not look like a cardboard figurine, but this is getting kinda unsettling now, lol.

 

[Kikorin]

This is incredible, and all made with a phone. All these tools going to make indie games pretty unbeliveable in some years.

 

[funking giblet]

I was messing with UE5 using LiveLink. Pretty cool to see a more advanced version!

 

[ResilientBanana]

Too much lower lip movement

 

[CGNoire]

Too much lower lip movement

Forget the defense force she always been a OTT actor.

 

[brian0057]

Damn, that's insane.
I can't wait for games to not look like that because they have to render more than a single person.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

impressive but don't expect to see it in games for a long time yet. this just shows what the engine can do when pushed. not what can run on a console with hardware from 4 years ago

This is almost indistinguishable from real people.

if you look at a still image yeah but in motion it looks fake as fuck. there is room for improvement with animations.

 

[SportsFan581]

Very impressive stuff. As always, hope to see it in games because facial animations, especially on NPCs and background characters, are still one of the weaker parts of current graphics.

@nightmare-slain it looks quite good in motion as well to me. Not perfect, but very good.

 

[Spyxos]

impressive but don't expect to see it in games for a long time yet. this just shows what the engine can do when pushed. not what can run on a console with hardware from 4 years ago


if you look at a still image yeah but in motion it looks fake as fuck. there is room for improvement with animations.

I was watching the State of Unreal yesterday and there was a short video with scenes from other games and series using this tech. I have seen a few of the series and games before that and it didn't stand out to me.

 

[Tomofdahook17]

Simply the future.

Curious to see if people like nd are gonna make better faces without ue5.

Well at this very moment Naughty Dog has basically built their own internal version of Unreal Engine.

I'm sure they study the shit out of that engine and code similar things into their own.

I'd at least like to see ND implement ray traced global illumination into their environments though their current GI solution already looks photo real.

I also suspect they will take advantage of ray traced reflections at some point as they are obsessed with adding water technology to all of their games.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

Very impressive stuff. As always, hope to see it in games because facial animations, especially on NPCs and background characters, are still one of the weaker parts of current graphics.

@nightmare-slain it looks quite good in motion as well to me. Not perfect, but very good.

i do agree it looks good. far better than anything in games we have today but you can still see that it's not that smooth. the animations could be better.

dont get me wrong, if i could play a game with that level of quality today i'd be fucking over the moon with it.

 

[Lokaum D+]

it ll run at 24fps on XboxSS

 

[Mr Moose]

No one moves their mouth like that.

 

[VN1X]

Once again I see some on GAF fail spectacularly to miss the point.

The most impressive part of this tech is the ease of use for developers and how it will open up even indie devs to more efficient pipelines of facial capture and animation. All you need is a bloody phone ffs! It's amazing tech but not because of the visuals. It's because it lowers the barrier to entry for quality MoCap to anyone.

 

[Supmate]

It's really impressive imo. iPhone has an improved version of the old Kinect Tof camera in it so not any old camera phone. I'm sure Ninja Theory has better depth cameras than on theiPhone to do their game capture. The mocap in this game should be incredible leading edge stuff

 

[niilokin]

Even the current LiveLink face animation is easy way to add little life to metahumans in animations.

 

[SlimySnake]

No one moves their mouth like that.

The actress exaggerated her jaw movements to show off the tech. Her last look is a subtle one and you can see the animation editor captured all three looks perfectly.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

This is almost indistinguishable from real people.

You might actually have blurry vision without realising it; get your eyes checked.

 

[Spyxos]

You might actually have blurry vision without realising it; get your eyes checked.

What do you mean ? I can see everything perfectly.

 

[Evolved1]

The animation will only improve. Real story here is that they did that shit in real time live on stage.... with a phone and (high end) consumer grade PC.

 

[BootsLoader]

Its impressive and all that but it is boring. I remember Quantic Dreams doing this in their demos etc.
I hope Devs will utilize this and actually make good games.

 

[SportsFan581]

Once again I see some on GAF fail spectacularly to miss the point.

The most impressive part of this tech is the ease of use for developers and how it will open up even indie devs to more efficient pipelines of facial capture and animation. All you need is a bloody phone ffs! It's amazing tech but not because of the visuals. It's because it lowers the barrier to entry for quality MoCap to anyone.

I think the quality delivered is as important too though. Just because it doesn't matter how easy something is to use if the results are complete jank. It's good to see that this is easy to use, especially the way they can transfer the animations between characters, and that the results could still represent a high level final presentation.