(Some people are concerned that Metahuman will ease the creation of deepfakes, however.) Epic’s Metahuman app gives you templates and tools to create characters in minutes, letting you customize the crinkles around their eyes, add freckle patterns, even change the shape of their irises. Up to this point, the creation of digital humans has been expensive and complex for developers and filmmakers. These scans were then incorporated into another one of Epic’s new technologies: Metahuman, which creates lifelike avatars.
To create the Matrix Awakens demo, Reeves and Moss flew to a digital scanning specialist studio in Serbia, where they had 3D scans taken of their faces and bodies. “Our whole tagline was: ‘What is real? What is a movie, and what is a game?’” Crossing the uncanny valley “A lot of us at Epic share the philosophy that the real world and the virtual world can look the same,” he says. There’s a real-world link between The Matrix and UE5: Libreri, now Epic’s CTO, served as a visual effects supervisor of the Matrix franchise, presiding over the “bullet time” technology in the original film. “Now, the artist can keep chiseling down and put in as much detail as they possibly can.”
“In the past, as you got closer to surfaces, the realism would break down: you could see that it’s a flat surface with a lot of texture detail as opposed to 3D geometry,” says Nick Penwarden, vice president of engineering at Epic. These visual details are boosted by two new technologies in UE5: Lumen, which emulates natural light, and Nanite, which allows for incredibly precise 3D detail. The graphics of the city are startlingly lifelike: the way the sun glints off the top of a car or a wet highway, for instance, or the depth and texture of intricately carved Art Deco reliefs and rusty chain link fences. The video showed Reeves and Moss transforming back into their bodies from 23 years ago-when the original Matrix came out-and then being transported into a virtual city to fight off a slew of bad guys. In December, Epic teased the release of UE5 with a demo featuring Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss of the Matrix franchise. They praised the system and discussed its potential in ushering an array of advancements across industries, including the metaverse.
Leading up to its release, TIME got exclusive access to several developers and artists who have already started using a preview version of Unreal Engine 5.
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