Character creation used to be one of the most time-consuming and expensive parts of game development. It required sculpting, retopology, texturing, rigging, and animating. With Unreal Engine 5 and the MetaHuman Creator, this process has been revolutionized.
MetaHuman is a cloud-based app that lets anyone create photorealistic digital humans in minutes. You can customize facial features, skin types, hair (using the new grooming system), and body types. The best part?
Every MetaHuman comes fully rigged and ready for animation in UE5. You can easily apply motion capture data to them or use your iPhone’s camera to capture facial expressions in real-time. This level of realism, previously reserved for big-budget Hollywood movies, is now accessible to solo developers.