Epic Unveils New Face-Creation Tool MetaHuman Creator

Game developers are making the characters they use in games more and more realistic by the day. Developers working specifically on game characters' faces care about this realism at least as much as they do about the game's engine.

Epic Unveils New Unreal Engine-Based Face Design Panel MetaHuman Creator With Released Video

Epic announced, in a video shared on its YouTube account, that it's preparing to take this realism a step further. Using this face-creation panel called MetaHuman Creator, built on Unreal Engine, users will be able to design highly realistic face structures without spending much time. With MetaHuman Creator you'll be able to edit even the smallest details. And there's no need to worry about not having enough space to store all those details, because MetaHuman Creator runs in the cloud.

Epic says MetaHuman Creator can be used to design realistic movements and interactive scenes for projects like games and films.

As you can see in the video, the quality of elements like hair, skin, eyes, and teeth is extremely high. Making versions of the same person that are old, young, long-haired, short-haired, light-skinned, dark-skinned, and so on is very fast and simple. The old man we see in the video has remarkably realistic wrinkles that shade and deform properly whenever his face moves.

Which Game Will MetaHuman Creator Be Used In?

MetaHuman Creator has raised the bar considerably when it comes to realism. Which game or film studio will be the first to use MetaHuman Creator is still an open question.

Will MetaHuman Creator Be Opened Up to Users?

The company designing MetaHuman Creator is also offering an early access opportunity you can sign up for.