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Reimagining Characters with Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator

Reimagining Characters with Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator

By : Brian Rossney, Ciaran Kavanagh
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Reimagining Characters with Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator

Reimagining Characters with Unreal Engine's MetaHuman Creator

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By: Brian Rossney, Ciaran Kavanagh

Overview of this book

MetaHuman Creator (MHC) is an online, user-friendly 3D design tool for creating highly realistic digital humans that can be animated within Unreal Engine (UE) and enhanced with motion capture technology. This means that filmmakers and game developers now have access to a high quality, affordable solution that was previously only available to specialist studios. This book will focus on using UE5 and MHC from a filmmaker angle. Firstly, you’ll understand how to use the online MHC to create a digital character, changing its facial structure, body type, and clothing. After that, you’ll learn all the necessary steps to bring the character into UE5 and set it up for animation. Then, using an iPhone and a webcam to capture face and body movements, you’ll mix these motion capture files, refine the animations using the MetaHuman Control Rig, and save these takes to be reused and edited again within the Level Sequencer. On top of that, you’ll learn how to create a rendered video file for film production using both the Level Sequencer and a VR Cinematic Camera. By the end of this book, you’ll have created your own MetaHuman character, as well as face and body motion capture data, and learned the necessary skills to give your future projects further realism and creative control.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1: Creating a Character
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Part 2: Exploring Blueprints, Body Motion Capture, and Retargeting
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Part 3: Exploring the Level Sequencer, Facial Motion Capture, and Rendering

What this book covers

In Chapter 1, Getting Started with Unreal, you will learn what Unreal is, what a MetaHuman is, and how to set up Unreal Engine on your computer.

In Chapter 2, Creating Characters in the MetaHuman Interface, we will examine all the major features of the Metahuman Creator Interface, how to edit a MetaHuman, and also how to download and export your own MetaHuman.

In Chapter 3, Diving into the MetaHuman Blueprint, we will learn what a Blueprint is and how to use them in relation to MetaHumans.

In Chapter 4, Retargeting Animations, we will learn all about IK Rigs, IK Chains, and the IK Retargeter.

In Chapter 5, Retargeting Animations with Mixamo, we learn how to retarget animation with Mixamo animation assets.

In Chapter 6, Adding Motion Capture with DeepMotion, similar to the previous chapter, we will learn about markerless motion capture using DeepMotion and how we can retarget DeepMotion-acquired motion capture data onto a MetaHuman.

In Chapter 7, Using the Level Sequencer, we will learn about the Level Sequencer and how we can use it to control our MetaHuman character.

In Chapter 8, Using an iPhone for Facial Motion Capture, we will learn how to install the Live Link app and use an iPhone to capture facial capture live and directly into Unreal Engine.

In Chapter 9, Using Faceware for Facial Motion Capture, as an alternative to the last chapter, we will look at how we can use a simple webcam to get an equally high standard of facial motion capture utilizing the Faceware software.

In Chapter 10, Blending Animations and Advanced Rendering with the Level Sequencer, we will look at how we can use multiple motion capture clips inside a Level Sequencer. This chapter will also introduce some advanced rendering concepts using the Level Sequencer, such as Post Process Volumes.

In Chapter 11, Using the Mesh to MetaHuman Plugin, as a bonus, you will learn about a new plugin that allows users to adapt their own 3D scans for their MetaHumans to be based on.

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