Meet the MetaHumans: Free Sample Now Available | Unreal Engine

These two high-quality, fully rigged sample characters represent the current state of the art for real-time digital humans and they’re yours to explore, modify, and use in your Unreal Engine 4.26.1 or later projects. They serve as a showcase of what’s achievable with MetaHuman Creator: an innovative new tool that will soon be available for you to create your own MetaHumans—in minutes.

[ExoJordy]

Honestly, the Unreal Engine development team are amazing for creating tools like this, really pushing the ability to produce AAA quality games from an indie level!

[KlassicGames]

If this gets any more advanced it's going to become real engine

[ProductionCrate]

this magic should not be in mortal hands

[nathancoulombe]

The unrealistic perfection of their teeth throws off the illusion

[TimeBucks]

It's clearly still animated, but nonetheless impressive.

[Jknessmic]

I'm about to create my avatar for zoom classes.

[sparshbodkhe]

Everyone : Thinks of actual smart ideas
Me : Rule 34 is never going to be the same

[rawen]

So that's how Skynet produced realistic skins for terminators

[bryanrichardson]

I could only imagine how much work this took to make. Props to everyone who worked on this.

[cioluvsurnan]

Omfg imagine... “hi I’m a meta human, the android sent by Cyberlife” 💀💀💀

[DrDerekDoctors]

It's the lip-sync which is what impresses me the most - it's easily the best seen in the real-time space hitting all the points which others seem to miss. Just incredible work.

[AlexeySeverin]

Wow. Facial animations are really impressive!

Concerning the teeth... I still haven't figured out why exactly but on every single realtime digital human character I've seen, no matter how realistic, there's always something about the teeth that instantly gives it this trademark uncanny valley creepiness. This remains a mistery to me and I really hope to figure it out one day.

[MrBoko]

my mind is absolutely blown, i can only imagine this is how it would feel showing modern tech to people from the 90's

[purrspctiv]

Constructive criticism:
The visuals are pretty perfect honestly, but I feel like the animation falls into the uncanny valley somewhat. I don’t know whether it’s via the post processing (the motion blur looks a tad strong) or if it’s a fault of the textures and the wrinkle blending. I don’t really know, it’s hard to tell what exactly is making it look imperfect.
Update: after seeing how the system works (via the other video), I can safely say that the sheer amount of customization this system gives you fully explains the imperfections. If anything, it’s an unprecedented achievement to have a tool that produces results that are this good while still featuring vast customization.

[automatik]

Unreal Engine is hands down the best engine. I would love to see this level of quality in future games :)

[dedy]

Everything is so precisely accurate and realistic in the shape, texture, lighting, and movements, but you can STILL tell. I don’t know what it is anymore. The human brain is picking up something yet I can’t put my finger on it.

[Jayeeyee]

The long-awaited upgrade for Rule34 is finally here.

[ZephrusPrime]

Upper lip rig and animations are getting much better.

[paulmoadibe]

in 20 years, i will explain to my grandchildren "so, this is how it all

[Tueborgame]

The perfect symmetry of the face throws it off for me.