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BUILD PHOTOREAL HUMANS WITH EPIC’S LATEST TOOL

Creating humans has long been the holy grail for CG artists. It’s a task that has always been seen as difficult and time-consuming, partly because the end result isn’t just about the geometry, or the materials and lighting, or the rigging and posing. It is all those things, but a believable human is definitely far more than just the sum of its CG parts.

Epic saw this problem and introduced the MetaHuman Creator software, an online tool for generating photorealistic human characters for use not just in its own Unreal Engine, but in other 3D apps too (currently only Maya is supported, but expect others later).

The tools are really quite simple to use, with a similar feature set to other

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