creating a 3d model of a person from scratch is tough and while modeling
software and hardware has improved throughout the years it still takes a
ton of experience and a lot of work to take a collection of basic shapes and
turn it into a photorealistic person but
hold on a second what if we started with a finished
person instead and then just tweaked them to look different
well that sounds kind of like the character creation tool in your favorite
rpg and those are often pretty decent
but they're always highly limited in terms of their sculpting options
that is until now meet the metahuman creator want a voodoo
doll of your boss to kick around with ragdoll physics
easy want a photorealistic digital representation of the father you never
had got you covered want a waifu to
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with the metahuman creator epic has set out to give developers the ability to
not only make character models quickly but to a high level of detail
now it hasn't been officially released yet but you can request access on their
website wait a few days and bada
you've got your very own npc factory at your disposal the big question however
is is it as easy to use as they say
to find out i will be going manoa mono
against our logistics manager matthias who has a background in 3d modeling
granted he leans more towards architecture and structures but he does
have experience with character modeling as well anyway if epic did their job right none
of that should matter i mean this looks pretty easy right who needs design
school to make a fully rigged and clothed human when you've got the power
of unreal engine 4. speaking of clothing too bad we can't
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now each of us will have 20 minutes to turn the same starting metahuman into a
digital version of yours truly neither of us have touched
the tool yet and will both be using the same frontal and three-quarter view
profile pictures as references
does this seem reasonable
how much time would it normally take to create a fully rigged and clothed person
depending on the complexity anywhere from a couple hundred hours to a couple
thousand
fortunately my secret weapon is i have the advantage of seeing myself in the
mirror every morning
i don't think anyone's going to call that an advantage
this is it yeah there's no like tutorial
mission we just go now
oh my gosh um i'm ready
how long do we get okay
normally when we do these kinds of challenges no matter how much experience
i have i'll just like come in like overly confident
hey i got nothing i got no swagger uh face blend what is blend
oh my god you take multiple characters and like put them together and she's
like looking at you and stuff the whole time holy crap i am
screwed i'm pretty confident about this it's
relatively intuitive um
it's pretty you know just point click drag
what the hell is happening okay well that
how do i make my nose pointier
absolutely zero prior experience
in-game character creation tools i usually just blitz through them as fast
as possible because i play games to play games not to stare at
in-game characters
my chances are basically zero thank you for making me say that out loud
i still haven't figured out how to change skin color at all
so that's a challenge
well that ain't it chief uh
okay what color is my skin i don't know never really thought about it
i went to school for uh 3d animation mostly for cinematics uh so you know
like cartoons and whatnot um unfortunately i never actually got a
chance to do it uh professionally at least
until today until today
it's great but i'm having trouble
how about that okay i have dark brown eyes apparently my my eyes are dark
okay oh god that smile i don't look like that okay
my teeth are mostly whitish i think but they're a little yellow
okay makeup oh god no we don't need any makeup how do i turn it off thin liner
soft smoky okay it needs more like off buttons
um because this has eyeliner on it i don't want it
so do i just press x no oh god
or something the difference between say this and maya
is maya you have to drag around individual vertices and other features
and you have to like place individual polygons where this is just you know
nice click and drag and you know move it all around okay
color here we go what color is my hair it's kind of
um oh god i'm so gonna lose this
that doesn't look anything like me though looks so much better than you
yes very symmetrical i'm not very symmetrical as far as i can tell there
isn't any way to actually change or adjust the hair shapes only what the
presets are which is kind of annoying
okay maybe we could change the pants to yeah that's
more like it uh-huh
okay definitely hoodie okay shoes
there we go it's the closest we got i'm surprised you didn't choose the
child body the child shut up i'm not that short
all right i need to find some mother with a big nose and i need to add that
to my blend show me the like big old honkin nose why
do these people all have perfect adorable noses look how cute this guy is
look at jesse here like man 10 out of 10 doable
i think they're going to add a lot of stuff later on because it does feel like there's a lot of
tweaks and details that are missing currently yeah i mean one thing you
can't really adjust is you know eye separation and that's in even some
fairly basic character creation screens that i've seen we can move them apart
and stuff oh wow okay i'm gonna admit this doesn't look quite
like you but i think that's just due to the limitations of the tool oh oh yeah
you're just gonna blame the tool well when mine looks identical to me you're
gonna who's gonna be laughing now uh oh my god you can add more than three
blend things i'm just gonna leave christopher in
there okay now we're just throwing stuff at the wall okay okay what about pia
let's throw pia in here oh god that's not it pia get out
yeah what kind of shortcuts what what are you doing mostly just
rotation and movements i didn't even move the guy around at all
do you need to do that um if you want a good sculpt of course you do
because if you could transition between two views like you can actually see what
you're doing i think really this tool is designed to
make us feel bad about ourselves
okay okay okay count us down three
two
one they feel like sims really you
definitely got the nose better i couldn't figure out the nose tool
so basically i didn't actually blend anything i just
sculpted all manually really yes
so the tools i primarily used were the move and sculpt
then i just integrated parts of the features to kind
of get my ballpark then tuned with the movement sculpt
interesting yeah i definitely used blend
which it took me a while to figure out how to use and then i went in with move
and sculpt and then i made things worse
for the most part i think the blend has a large potential to
you know speed up all the workflow the problem is like i didn't want to
waste time by learning a new tool when i could just do it faster myself right
if there's more hair customization or if you could say sculpt the hair like
you could do the face yeah that would have made it so much better i think with
more time and experience i could get it closer but not a lot closer it needs way
more tools with respect to being able to like shape the face more or maybe i mean
oh actually yours is better but it's hard to tell under the beard but i felt like i couldn't draw in my cheeks enough
that's i constantly try to draw it in because you have quite my cheeks are
quite concave yeah yeah um and then the nose
you yes you can't do anything with the nose it needs way more in terms of accessories there's a lot of things
about a person that are identifiable
markers that you just can't put on like i have a mole for example that would
really help go oh yeah that's Linus or earrings or whatever which one looks
more like minus i don't know the bow pretty bad
ouch stab don't twist
so these are both supposed to be Linus
okay there's a bit i get a bit of an asian
vibe on this one here uh
i don't immediately get Linus vibes from either of them so there's that
okay what am i doing you need to decide which face looks more like your husband
but neither of them look like him
on honestly the one on the right kind of looks like james to me
but the one on the left the hair is just too
nice looking like it's all swept so neatly and Linus's hair is always just
like like he just woke up it's bed head
why did i think it was a good idea to bring in someone who looks at me this much
oh yeah and did you get the ears being offside a little bit
i don't know uh the one on the left just looks more fake just in general it just
looks less like a real human the one on the right
really you know i just i can't get past the beard it's just too much it's just
too much on the left i'm sorry i'm sorry
i have experience doing this because i watched Linus do short circuits all the
time both hairs at least the hairstyles is off for sure
oh yeah the one on the right i like the one on the right better
so the the right one looks like what Linus wants to look like
and then when the left is around here
which one do you think looks more like neither
i think i'm gonna go with the one on the left just because this one looks too much like james to me
i'm gonna guess matthias made that one
no really yeah Linus self image is james
they do look like people they just don't look like lions
like like maybe the one on the right like maybe a slightly younger Linus but
i've seen younger Linus and he didn't look like that
and i'm gonna predict i think matthias did the one on the
right you're very wrong what
oh i'm so sorry mathias that's fine
now if if i'm allowed to guess who's done what
don't look at us okay okay fine i'm gonna guess that
uh the left one was done by mathias and the right one was done by Linus
i'm gonna say that the left one was modeled by Linus
the super beardy one just
Linus is a jokester and he would do that uh i could see that
being like the hero in your story and that's kind of like the
um oh man i don't know why luke just popped into my head
what word were you
which one did you say looked more like me again
so james is the hero in your story is that what you're trying to say
uh i'm gonna go now i'm not a modern game
development expert but i think it's pretty obvious that this would help a
lot in terms of creating extremely diverse looking crowds of people i mean
we've seen so often where the main character is like this
immaculately crafted 3d model i think
like the the the reboot tomb raider games are a great example where lara
croft is just like this painstakingly created model and then
pretty much everyone else in the games is like
yeah it looks like it was done five five years ago you know crowds of people with
this level of diversity with this amount of speed is definitely going to increase
my immersion because you see it so often where you're like oh yeah that's the
same one with a palette swap like it it takes you out of it it's immersion
breaking whereas this can improve that like overnight i think it has a great
potential to replace a large amount of
npc creation in the scene where you need say
a hundred different characters all wandering around doing different things
it's absolutely great because it's rigged textured and ready to go and
easily deployable you know
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well wasn't that fun i was uh actually you know what we
probably got closer than i expected if you guys are looking for another fun video to watch we recently did one with
two simultaneously running games and people have to decide whether rtx is on
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that's me thanks Yvonne