“And just like that…” Naw dude, I’ve been using Unreal for years now. Nothing in that engine is “just like that”

Realistic, but there's something that happens when they smile or do any exaggerated expression. My mind just rejects it.

The Muscle Animator highlights a major reason for the uncanny valley: Intiation of movement. When a human in rest starts to move, their muscles tighten *BEFORE* any movent occurs. Here, all muscle movement is a *RESULT* of the movement - as opposed to cause for it. Also, on other, close-up samples, the fixational eye motion is missing, making the 100% stationary pupils look dead.

There's not really a TOO REALISTIC threshold, as you can always dial it down if that's not the style you're aiming for. The exciting objective of making realistic gameplay achievable is a few steps closer and something we'll likely see over the next few years as this sort of progress continues. Hats off to the UE devs

Amazing tech, though I am frustrated how the speakers are like "just like that" and "untouched metahuman animator solves".....I've seen enough tech demos to know that NOTHING that gets aired at these presentations is "untouched". It's HEAVILY curated. I guarantee that there are all kinds of extra tricks happening here to make this look as easy and palatable as possible in this demo.

Death Stranding 2 is decima engine.. Not Unreal Engine.

if the characters looks like they're breathing, like subtle chest movement and shoulder..they will prolly look more alive and real

Now i would like to be 20 years younger.

The Starfield developers have a lot to learn - if you take into account the beginning of this video (the character's face).

They're at the stage where with the right lighting, animation, and camera work they look realistic but you can still tell the difference when you put the model next to the actor

Starfield says “hello!” 😂

I really hate that they now have UEFN-only features.

God the compression is destroying it.

Simulation of muscle stretching FINALY. I am so tider of those plactic muscles in all games that doesn't even changes, no stretches. It made me sad. But FINALY!

Mesh and lighting is really good. But the animation and skin sliding / flesh deformation has still a loooong way to go

The irony of showing Kojina stuff on an unreal demo when they used unity's Ziva RT to make the body deformations... :)

4:40 I was like "Ezekiel from TWD?" 5:09 ahhh, yess

I loved Khary Payton in The Walking dead, glad to see him in the gaming scene as well.

I want to know how to make Metahuman speak and her body animated by rigging. I can do separately with audio2face, but can't get them together. The face and body can't stick together in the sequencer.

The initial video is still deep inside the uncanny valley

Its not too realistic, this is what we've been waiting for!

Wow, Elle Fanning in Death Stranding 2!

Way to impressively make any game look the same. Literally. But I admit I appreciate the tech advancements that make this possible.

открою вам анатомический секрет - что бы роботы не выглядели роботами, зрачки должны совершать очень быстрые движения(микро тряска), человеческий глаз это не замечает, но фокусировка на объектах заставляет глаз трястись с большой скоростью, что делает для нас глаз собеседника живым. При этом наш глаз считывает движения глаз собеседника и если этого всего нет, подкорка вам кромко кричит - перед вами киборг или труп.

Nice. But why everyone still have the same 3 body types? Women’s breast vary, some men are built and cut. Like why are y’all avoiding the finer control in the body.

Metahuman is a content creation tool. It is used to create the character art of Death Stranding 2, but Decima Engine renders their actual in-game appearance in real time, not Unreal.

Normal guys reacting metahuman: Wowie i can create my digital ver! Devs reacting metahuman: So many basic created realistic NPCs😈

Na das nenn ich mal progressiven Fortschritt. Als Architekt habe ich seit den 90iger Jahren mit 3D-Programmen Erfahrung, aber Unreal hat es wirklich auf die höchste Stufe gebracht. Toll, das zu sehen !

Fantastic progress. Still sitting in that uncanny valley though. Not quite there yet.

I dont know if the kids working today realize how much work went into early animation.. the tools now are unbelievable. Remember when rudementary cloth modeling plugin was first introduced to Max?

23:08 nice god of war reference 🤣

Brilliant stuff.... the one thing that always gets me though, is the completely overboard mouth animations... like i get it for intense emotion anims... but just talking? ... nobody goes into full blown facial coniptions ordering a meal, showing all there teeth whener possible, really overly mouthing every little word... I suppose it's just for showing it off clearly.... but man, subtlety is a thing..

Face demo: Feels like the lips are not interacting with the teeth Death Stranding 2: the hair moves in slow motion compared to reality (like the hair is underwater). Muscle demo has some proportion issues (seems to be worst around the lats) and it looks like the movements are triggering the muscles, not the muscles triggering the movements. Getting closer to real though for sure. The cloth stuff seemed pretty flawless!

I love Unreal Engine. Been following it's progress for a long time. I am excited for FSR3 and fsr upscaling with ai improvement and Unreal 5 games with FSR3 frame generation :)

Do something with hair movement. It's like they're underwater. In many games, no game developer has paid any attention to this for many years.

OMG THAT WAS AWSOME

The most impressive thing about all this is that it's still not fully capable of fooling you into thinking it's real despite looking as realistic as it does Hypothetically I would even go so far as to say the only way this and even future tech will be able to convince someone that it's real is to make them first forget what reality is

Just imagine the potential, micro managing and total customization the director can have over an actor's core performance without having multiple takes.....

Maybe I am old fashioned, but I don't really think games need ultra realistic graphics. There's a certain charm in games with particular style, not unlike something we can see everyday

DS2 will run on Decima, what does that have to do with UE5?

that is massively impressive...i should admit

I love how the thumbnail which is ment to state the realism of UE5.4 is actually the Decima Engine. Just shows how great that engine is and is highly comparable.

what if we can do all this with a prompt, then refine it with another prompt, and then finishing touch with prompt, then save it with prompt, and invoke the character movement placement etc with prompt.

Bioware used to make games with characters that seemed so realistic and cinema quality. I miss those days.

impressive !

8:05 "convincing tongue animation" 😳😳

Some where Mass Effect Andromeda was like " Could you that earlier????"

I feel like the next big step would be to improve subsurface scattering

Thank god it’s still easy to see the CG giveaways.

can we have stylized imports like iclone has?

The sync between audio and lip movement is noticeably out most of the time, unless they are speaking slowly, then it looks fine. Which is odd, that shouldn't be a hard thing to get right when you have complete control of both. Maybe this issue got introduced during the editing of the youtube video rather than by UE

honestly the most exciting thing is cloth sim and muscle system...

At this point I am convinced that the uncanny valley effect is 100% due to the mouth and not the eyes.

Damn impressive!

Still death stranding 2 or the beach or whatever they call it used a deferent engine the Decima engine and showcase insane amount of details as well

Ari Folman's Congress turns real.

Muscle animator seems pretty nice :o however am wondering how much of it can we get in a simulator or a game 🤔🤔 Maybe it will only be available in such high detail for simulators and education softwares instead

That muscle system demonstration was insanely mindblowing. Unreal is way too real for me now. 😍

People are quite wrong about this! It's NOT when characters look real in games and cartoons BUT when they look almost real but there is something that you cannot put your finger on or understand that is wrong so it's only slightly wrong, so they aren't either a depiction of a human OR either a human, when you enter the uncanny valley territory. A good example of graphics gone wrong is the new Dune game but a great example of when they are enough of a caricature, like in world of warcraft, that they look "good" or at least don't look weird. Look at the lord of the rings from director Ralph Bakshi movie where they recorded actual actors but then draw on them and how incredibly weird and uncanny it looks but it's not until you actually know the reason that you can put a finger on it.

I think we are just 10 years away from seeing animation that looks 100% real

I’m really impressed with the clothing system, that’s badass

This engine is amazing I just wish I had the talent and assets to push it to the limit.

muscle animation system looks great, but i think either there's a small bug or the character model is weird, cos he has virtually NO LAT DEVELOPMENT lmao

I'm ready for Meta to hurry up and release their Codec Avatars they've been developing with this very same technology. The real gem in this keynote was not what it means for future flatscreen games and consoles....but what it means is On the Horizon in VR

Great👍👏

This keeps getting recommended to me, so I had to pop in to say that most of these are not metahumans or using any of the metahuman technology. Death Stranding 1 & 2 are proprietary systems and the character scans, models, motion capture and blendshapes were done by film artists (I think at DNEG, if I remember, but DD also does a lot of games contracts, like The Quarry. All of Sony's in-house stuff is done by their film artists at Visual Arts Studio or outsourced to a VFX house like Digital Domain). So we can be pretty sure that OD (also from Kojima) is also mostly outsourced. Kojima also used pre-rendered trailers in V-Ray (not Unreal) for Death Stranding 1, so I'm pretty sure OD is, also. The ML Deformer for muscle simulation doesn't work for production, yet, and it's specifically for film, not games. Muscle sim is still done in 3rd party software (Houdini or Ziva before the shutdown) and brought in as alembics (again, for film and virtual production. It does not work for games, yet, because of the vertex influence limits. It's way too computationally heavy). Rise of Hydra - Skydance Interactive is part of Skydance, the VFX house. Those aren't metahumans and I highly doubt Marvel would let them use Metahuman tech. Senua isn't a metahuman, either. They only used the facial mocap system (and I think only for editing the facial capture in the engine, not capturing the performances). Basically, the entire industry is a lie and Epic keeps milking it.

Well, who volunteers to connect one of these metahumans to OpenAI's gpt-4o ?

words were never chosen more carefully.

There is still a lot of Uncanny Valley in the expression and emotion.. Part of the face being totally dead and expressionless, while other areas overcompensate, making the expressions look like some kind of psychopathic bells palsy sufferer. It will get there, but not close yet.

Muscle animation for Fight Night Nex Gen?

I love you guys you are the best

we're almost about to cross the uncanny valley

Its too perfect, a real human has imperfections

This will be great for tailor made clothing

To be or not to be is going to be the real question now.

We aren't there yet. Inching closer and closer though.

Death Stranding (left side on a poster) is not on UE5, it's on Decima

incredible

"too realistic" while I get that primal "wtf that's not human" uncanny valley reaction

Не, предыдущие версии красивее безопаснее были, а эти какие то страшноватые, как роботы Макс похожи на людей...

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How would they have imitated an anamorphic lens?

Is it not meant to match? The finished one at 9:48 - 9:52 does not match the original eye movements for example like here 7:25 - 7:29. Why is that?

Almost, and very impressive! But most of the time there's still that uncanny valley. Maybe in another 5-10yrs they'll get there. But not quite yet.

And for some reason still well within the uncanny valley

When can we get this detail in VR?

the low bitrate of this video really fucks up the impact of the presentation

The cap and black panther animations look absolutely Amazing. Wow!

Ultra geil

bro gave me nostalgia from The Polar Express

Witcher 4 going to use 5.4 ?/ or not means will the faces look like this ?? my god.

That thumbnail, though. Right side: JRPG. Left side: Western game developed by Bioware.

It looks realistically better than anything we’ve seen before but I’m scared that a lot of games will start using it, leading to a very samey look between games

Here's a thought imagine Unreal engine in 10 years with all the AI developments on the horizon scary!

Just by peeking at the video thumbnail, I can figure out who the actual person is. They’re on the right. The major problem with 3D models, which has persisted for ages, is the eyes. They lack life, and the eyeballs always seem too large, or they just look like wax, or appear blind.

This is insane

It'd be nice if even a handful of modern games looked remotely like the UE demos from 4 years ago, let alone this stuff.

I think I want to use whatever character creator the Korean studios are using.

I can't wait to see this in games in.... 15 years shoutout to the Xbox Series S for holding back the industry

Please work on your converting skills even 4k quality is like 720P with extremely bad color bit rate.