THIS MONTH
THIS MONTH ON EDGE
When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this
TOOL
MetaHuman Creator bit.ly/unrealmetaEpic’s tool for creating ‘digital humans’ is here, and while we can’t speak to how well it fits the stated goal of democratising character creation, an hour’s fiddling reveals it to be a fascinating toy at the very least. A cloud application streamed into your web browser, it starts with a selection of around 60 prefab people, which means it lacks the strange thrill of This Person Does Not Exist’s algorithmically generated faces, but does enable even amateurs like us to create a convincing person in minutes. You can use these faces as a palette, blending each element of the face –a bit more of Zakari’s eyes, a little less of Yuri’s nose – then sculpt the results. The magic comes when you reintroduce animation to your creation, as we discover when catching a yawn from our own digital human.