Metahuman Animator x iPhone | Scan YOUR Face in Unreal Engine 5

Ever wanted to BE a video game character? Now you can, and I'll show you how!
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This video is PART 1 of the Metahuman Animator series.

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Welcome back to Unreal Apprentice. In this video, I walk you through the basics of the new Metahuman Animator!

I show you step-by-step how to scan your face with an iPhone, and bring it into Unreal Engine 5.

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Don't forget to check out my other videos too, like the one where I show you what Every Single Material Input Does! Thanks for watching!

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:28 Download & Configure Live Link
01:51 Scan Your Face!
02:51 Transfer The Files
03:06 Get UE5 Plugins
03:46 Set Up Connection
04:18 Upload Scans
04:48 Select Frames & Export
06:27 Outro

Original Intro and Song by me, AJ.

[UnrealApprentice]

What do you guys wanna know how to do with Metahuman Animator?
(besides the basic animating part, which is next)

Let me know, maybe I'll make a video about it!

[RichardRiegel]

Im sure that I'm not wrong but this has nothing to do with Lidar. It's the front TrueDepth Camera, which is responsible for FaceID functionality in iPhones and uses the same technique to scan face for UE app, .

[IamSHVA]

First step - borrow girlfriend’s iPhone
**Mission failed**

Nice tutorial… thanks 🙏

Please do more tutorials on Metahuman Animator like - Record Face mocap, how to put that animation on body etc.

[nobodyfamous]

"borrow you gf's iphone" thats real lol

[angelinaodievich]

I appreciate the pace and clarity of your video. Thank you. After mocap I would like to see how to add maximo to my metahuman please.

[Mohamed_ya]

I would like to make a video of how to animate a face with a stereo in MetaHuman

[GDixie]

why can't I find the model in the editor even if I do everything correctly? I also get the message that the backend job was successful. Any ideas on how to check this?

[DanyRamos]

Really Helpfull! Keep doing those videos please! 🤩

[WesleySales]

As an addendum to the creation of the Metahuman Identity just a few seconds of video focusing on your face from the front, left and right are enough, maybe adding more frames from other angles will help, maybe not. But it is not necessary to make spiral and very long captures. And you forgot to do the teeth position adjustment to fit the model's teeth.

[blaszmogames]

what is the cable to connect iphone to pc? i know it can work on wifi but for speed some cable connection is used. what's the cable?

[ammar]

love your t-shirts, thought punk was dead

[violentpixelation]

Can someone help me. I'll got my live link face footage transfered to my computer via iTunes and imported everything as live link archive. Everything seems to be there, depth, lens information....etc. but the video frames folder seems to be empty in UE although it is not. When I open the folder in Windows it contains an image sequence. Metahuman identity create component from footage just creates a blank sequence???? Maybe someone had the same issues.

[dernierevision]

Hey thanks !! What if i have a beard? Does it work ?

[HumbleHerman]

By the way, why can’t you just take three pictures? It would give exactly the same results if not better, and be far less complicated!

[ey]

Does it absolutely have to be 5.2 or is it also possible to use 5.1?

[Primalmesh]

Bought an Ipad Pro this week for our wedding anniversary- at least thats what she thinks😂

[DavidEsteban]

It's there any way to do this with Android?

[Aaron-csc]

this won't work with Mac, right?

[Mohamed_ya]

I would like to make a video of how to animate a face with a stereo in MetaHuman