Epic Games Showcases Next Generation Digital Humans Using Unreal Engine - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 March 2018 / 3,628 Views
Epic Games has teamed up with 3Lateral, Cubic Motion, Tencent and Vicon to take "live captured digital humans to the next level using Unreal Engine."
The "next general digital human" in one video shows off Siren, who is based on the likeness of Chinese actress Bingjie Jiang, while in other videos shows off a performance captured by Andy Serkis.
View the videos below:
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Still something about their mouths etc, makes them look fake, but its certainly getting there.
I feel like we already have this with Uncharted 4.
These look phenomenal, but dev cycles have become significantly longer from just last gen. Stuff like is going to be a one title per gen type of deal.
Still creepy, still not going to pay money for anything that looks like that, but I still applaud the effort.
Looks like something out of a Quantic Dream tech demo haha.
If only Epic was working on UT and other titles besides doing what Tencent says and sticking with just FN.
Yeah, I can tell you guys are still climbing your way out of the uncanny valley.
Looks great, but I can still tell the difference.
Wow that guy's eyes actually look a little sickly... I think I just realized that most in-game characters have long had white, healthy looking eyeballs, and that may have been one of the obstacles making them seem less realistic lol
It's definitely getting pretty dang impressive.
Eh... I prefer cartoonier representations of humans.
yeah they look like serial killers
Yeah I'd rather have good art direction than just hyper realistic graphics that then drive the cost and time of game development skyward meaning less time working on things besides graphics or just sucking up time from other games that could be made. Every once in a while a hyper realistic game is cool just cuz of the graphics. But graphics are already so good today in general I could care less about making them more detailed.
blah blah blah, state of the art this and that and the other, digital human blah..... in 4 years this will look like dated graphics. i dont who they trying to fool with this lifelike crap, cant fool my eyes or most people eyes for that matter
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