Metahuman Animator Test on a Stylized Facemesh with Midjourney Texture | Animation Test

This is a test for the new Metahuman Animator facial mocap system from @UnrealEngine - and a couple other things. I ran a stylized head mesh through the new Mesh-to-Metahuman process (which is way better at maintaining the stylized shape compared to the old version) and animated with a video take of myself making some exaggerated faces. Note - this has zero mocap cleanup - just the straight take. The head is textured using the Midjourney generative AI - I fed a blank render of the head mesh into Midjourney with a prompt for a handpainted texture, then projection mapped it onto the mesh in Blender, and then handpainted the parts that were messy (the sides and back, inside the mouth etc).

[JaidevCGartist]

Well, this opens a whole new realm of possibilities. Amazing.

[SpectralGhost]

Damn, looks like Telltale Games is making a new Walking Dead game 👍.

[geckogaming]

This is so good is there somewhere I can see your process it’s so good

[ielohim]

Okay so you rendered a blank mesh, ran that through midjourney and asked it to handpaint it? Then projection mapped it in Blender? Then I guess you ran the head mesh with the projection mapped texture through mesh-to-metahuman? Then you used metahuman animator to animate it? Great work by the way. Just trying to figure our your workflow so I can try the same. Thanks for sharing!