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This is the most convincing CGI human I have seen, this includes movies

This is the first time ever that a CG face doesn't fall into the uncanny valley for me - this is better than movies

Umm...that first clip is insane. Materials, lighting, surfacing details are pretty much bang on. Eyes are incredibly convincing. I think the facial muscles and mouth movements still need work to cross the uncanny valley but daaamn that is so so so close. I think even just doing some realtime AI off of deepfake training on the face would push this beyond any movie quality and in realtime...that's just crazy.

At certain moments, I completely lost track of the fact that I was watching a digital creation and instead felt completely immersed in a captivating movie-like experience.

I love and hate it how much I got invested into this guy, story and setting. And it's just a cinematic showcase. I need more of that. Whole game.

I’m not sure what impressed me more the visuals or the audio!! Listening to this on my phone landscape and the voices on the second bit were so well panned

i literally kept saying to myself "THATS A REAL PERSON, THATS A REAL PERSON" like this is the craziest technology i have EVER seen when it comes to realism on humans

This meta human standard will be standardized in the next 5 years for all AAA games imo

There was moments where I actually thought it was a composite of real footage on a cgi background. this is absolutely insane.

I'm beyond ready for a miniseries to be made with this technology! Imagine the kinds of worlds we'll get to see!

This is the level of realistic facial animation we need for UE5 games, nobody must be able to pick out reality from animation, and then we can make movies and shows "live action", without any limitations at all, put all the money into this and space research, the only interesting things to develop, while saving our planet by improving efficiency in general of course.

Facial capture has truly gotten jaw dropping. But even tho this unreal metahuman animator system is superior in nearly everyway, there is still ONE area that LA Noir's tech got that this and other modern face cap systems don't. Small wrinkles forming and disappearing with subtle facial expression changes. You can see it best at the transition from live to cg at 4:47 The fore head wrinkles and smile wrinkles that connect the corner of his mouth to his nose are not more defined in the cg model the way they are live. That's because those wrinkles are too small to be rendered via polygons and can only be shown via texture. LA Noir's system being much older couldn't render them via polygons either, but they DID have wrinkles like that become more defined via the texturing. And that's something I'm surprised modern face cap systems don't take advantage of. The skin texture on this model is static. Only the actual model of the face moves. But until we get 3D models that are upwards of a multiple hundred _trillion_ polygons the facial models won't capture small wrinkles forming/becoming more defined without having altering textures on the face.

It's crazy how gaming tech is developing movies and TV shows as well.

The 'Unreal engine' sure is unreal, amazing how far tech has come in the last few years. Each year things are improving fast as PCs get faster and faster. The tech level is rising fast thanks to PCs themselves, the growth/intelligent scale is ramping up faster each year. Cheers.

Man, I wish someone remade that “The Casting” tech demo from Heavy Rain (PS3) on UE5 to really see how far we’ve come in just 15 years.

Wow everything beautiful! writing, performance, graphics, music... It looks like a game I'd definitely play, just amazing!

Can’t wait to watch this ten years from now and laugh about how real we thought this looked!… but yeah it looks amazing.

Wow, this is astonishing, and im constantly watching 3d footage, and this is the best game engine footage ive seen. Guessing it was raytraced, but hopefully one day soon it will be realtime.

I think the most important thing about art is that we can still express ourselfs, I'm happy and hope that we still need to give value to the humam work involved in acting on games, just making it more realistic in the digital world, but still true to us. I was just recently watching Matrix move and now it looks so close to a documentary than ever, I just hope technology make us greater and not robots

Actors would never age, we can just let AI and CGI do the work.

Problem I ran into was putting custom clothing onto the Meta Humans. Besides that the technology is wild and i'm looking forward to see how it develops. Fingers crossed they add some more customization options for the MetaHumans!

All of that from an iphone?! That is crazy!! Ureal Engine is definitely going to revolutionize gaming forever!

is beautiful, we are so close to the end of reality and go to another one.

This is by far one of the best I have seen, but no matter how good they get at mimicking reality, I can't help but instantly notice the difference between a real person and one of these meta faces. The giveaways are usually the eyes or slight head motions that don't seem normal which could be the result of the excess gear they have to carry around while acting.

The only uncanny part for me is the eyes. It’s gonna be so hard to get them perfect. But this is so beautiful

truly amazing I'm baffled by how far we are I can't even imagine how far we still have to go!

Soon, there will be a day when I don't have to see Tom friggin Hanks in a movie ever again. Celebrate.

Imagine if this was used for the new Indiana Jones movie but it was young Indiana instead of old Indiana. Would have been epic.

I don’t have a clue what he was talking about, I could barely even focus on what he was saying. Yet I couldn’t look away for a second.

now i undestand it she was going to send this letter to him and than got in an accident and probably died

Very. very good, but I see he doesn't blink enough, and the lips are a little stiff but overall nearly perfect. the rest is very interesting.

Anyone else remember that PS9 commercial? This is like one step away.

OMG the subtle EXPRESSIVENESS! WOW WOW WOW !!!

Theoretically they could use dead celebrities as CGI and map them to another actors body for films because these graphics are insane

This is stunning. 10 years ago we had similar tech, but the lighting and performance improvements pretty much fix all the issues we had with mocap to 3D representation. We have the tech now to build something amazing. And I bet a lot more movie directors are going to jump on in the gaming industry bandwagon! Though, to make a good game, have amazing graphics AND story telling will take a lot of time and effort. (Also money) See you in 2033!

thanks man you thought me what metahuman is in a single video.

Can’t wait to see this realism in video games. We almost there brother.

Ok i’m 😮😮, it’s amazing and scary at the same time

Almost perfect. The eyes are quite real. The mouth needs to be improved (the lips sometimes need to stick together), and the cheek muscles need to be softer and bounce slightly due to gravity. To conclude, even the neck muscles need to move along with the mouth as the person speaks.

if someone show me this video in 2000s I'll believe this was real footage from real cinema camera

I really hope they release it very soon!

6:12 felt like asmr ngl

I think it’s down to the lips and teeth and we will have no uncanny valley at all

Wtf! It cant be that easy. That's insane! I need this now🤯😂

The beginning, when he turns to the camera and makes facial expressions, that felt a bit artificial in parts of his face. I went back and watched it a few times. It's close, but not perfected yet. The rest of the scene was very good and convincing to me.

Next step is make body riging also automated with videos without trackers and expensive tools

We’ll see this kind of graphics probably on Ps6.

Incredible talented actor and actresses

Damn it. Tell me this first was an actor in a rather unconvincing CHI Background. That guy looked like Berlín from „La casa del Papel“ (I have no idea what it’s called in the US and I don’t know Spanish so please don’t judge the spelling). That was a Movie like quality of CGI. Just the part where picks up the helmet doesn’t really look real. But he does, all the time. This is going to be nuts… Brace for playable Movies!

Now add in a database of human based movements, link it to a language based programmed GPT style AI and you've got next gen canny valley.

love it except youtube doesn’t let uuu scroll through a video if it has chapters

Close, but still missing Iris movement - the eyes!

Non exagerated animations does make a difference

BOOOOOLESNO DOBRO!!! :) Great job!!! :)

Thank you.

The uncanny valley slowly disappears

for almost the whole time in the first clip i thought it was real!

Wow, that is pretty close to being out of the uncanny valley that has plagued cinema CGI. Almost there.

This is pretty amazing. The uncanny valley is about to be transcended.

I had to read the comments to make sure it is digital 🤐

Imagine if starfield was on unreal engine 5.2

And it's only going to take another 10-15 years before a system will be powerful enough to actually display this level of detail in a full blown open world game.

Impressive, but curious on how well the face tracking with a wide angle lens translates to longer focal lengths, as the level of lens distortion is different.

My birthday is November 21st and I ride a motorcycle 😳. This was shocking.

This is impressive, but it will take many years to see this running in real time in a gameplay

Better than the flash cgi ngl

JAW DROPPING!!!

you can still tell it's not real. it's something about the mouth. the mouths always looks like they are in slow motion.

Want to know when this is gonna be used to... cof... you know... po...p corn.

next step is the stickiness of the lips.

I couldn’t convince myself that it was cg, even though i knew it. Waow. 0 uncanny.

this is impressive

The lower lips and mouth oval shape seemed odd. Everything else was amazing.

Looks very impressive! But still missing many micro expressions.

Amazing work. Great job. Which camera you used for facial capture?

The best yet

Qoyil qoldim😮 , bu men ko‘rgan 3d aniatsiyalari ichidagi eng haqiqiysi ( my text lan = uzbek )

I don’t know… I still feel the whole lips and facial expressions are not perfect because the muscles and skins movements need little bit more improvement. It felt weird to me…

They need to retire the term “Uncanny Valley”, the space that historically defined believability is rapidly disappearing. CGI still excites me as much today as it did decades ago, I think the advancements are more attention grabbing than the material that stems from them.

This is Avatar level quality.

Where can I get the music from this video? Amazing music

I certainly looks good but i still say it doesnt look "real", much of this has to do with motion blur and lens optics, of which there is very little. Typically gamers would see something like this and swear to its realism, but their visual sensitivity is not acute to live photography. very few games even come close to crossing that uncanny valley. Its about simulated optics. and refinement in post, Unreal still has a ways to go to getting a faithful interpretation of real world camera lenses and their optical results.

Imagine 2015 Lara Croft but with this realism 😍

wow they invented FMV 30 years later

Gaming changing!

But, how to concile both digital and real humans in situations like what we see here ? Meaning, when the digital is meant to replicate exactly the human, how to maybe use the human as is, there won't be anything more real than a human, will it ?

Now I see why actors are afraid 😳

Damn it's so good!

how it not too realistic when it come in hand of high equitment and pro-team

the only thing I always see that its a dead cgi giveaway is the starts and ends of a movement. it ends too softly/smoothly. Real motion have individual elements moving and stopping at different rates. some wrinkles of fabric may snap into place, and some continue to flow...animators should stop smoothing down the motions.

Yes but what's the size of a game? A whole hardrive? We stopped using DVDs for games but will we start buying entire hardrives?

Not bad on fly, but many issues. Her eyes dont close enough. The part between mouth and eyes contract to less. The mouth movement/lips dont move enough. Also her headmovement is a bit wrong and not smooth enough like the original. Mostly, i see the biggest issue in the chunky headmovement and wrong dynamic here. Second biggest problem are the cheecks ... all the area between eyes and mouth. You can have hundrets of subtle animations in the eyes and mouth. If the area between them dont move adequately, the face tends to look a bit dead. There are no controlers for this important area. Try to make faceexpressions without moving the eyes and mouth ... just the area between.... you will be surprised, how much evect there is.

Very good stuff

11:54 James Cameron is pleased with her

What is the soundtrack title of the "Cinematic showcase" chapter please ?

Don't these animations still depend on human actors for motion capturing the faces? When AI can replicate human emotion in cg that will be the end of human actors.

Which iPhones work witht the Live Link Face App? I'm looking to buy an iPhone 12, but I'm not completely sure it would work. Thanks.

Starfield could use this

isanely good... imagine an AI controlling context driven conversations and you simply talk to your phone and you are acting in a game or movie and getting intelligent feedback through conversations with the NPCs... a whole new interface could be possible interaction driven through dialogue and emotional response. Of course this is the beginning of your future home... the MATRIX mwhuahahahahahahaha!