{"id":1120696,"date":"2023-03-23T08:33:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1120696"},"modified":"2023-03-23T08:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:33:14","slug":"epics-new-motion-capture-animation-tech-has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1120696","title":{"rendered":"Epic\u2019s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-22-at-5.35.08-PM-800x421-1.png\" alt=\"Would you believe that creating this performance took only minutes of video processing and no human tweaking?\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-22-at-5.35.08-PM.png\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1503\" data-width=\"2858\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Would you believe that creating this performance took only minutes of video processing and no human tweaking? (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K1qG8pREfkA\">Ninja Theory \/ Epic<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO\u2014Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations that can be used on in-game models. Usually, these technical demonstrations involve a lot of specialized hardware for the performance capture and a good deal of computer processing and manual artist tweaking to get the resulting data into a game-ready state.<\/p>\n<p>Epic&#8217;s upcoming MetaHuman facial animation tool looks set to revolutionize that kind of labor- and time-intensive workflow. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pnaKyc3mQVk\">an impressive demonstration<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=teTroOAGZjM\">Wednesday&#8217;s State of Unreal stage presentation<\/a>, Epic showed off the new machine-learning-powered system, which needed just a few minutes to generate impressively real, uncanny-valley-leaping facial animation from a simple head-on video taken on an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>The potential to get quick, high-end results from that kind of basic input\u00a0&#8220;has literally changed how [testers] work or the kind of work they can take on,&#8221; Epic VP of Digital Humans Technology Vladimir Mastilovic said in a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1926215#p3\">Read 13 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1926215&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1926215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Epic\u2019s new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Would you believe that creating this performance took only minutes of video processing and no human tweaking? 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