Glassbox Technologies

Bringing digital humans to life will always require an artist's touch. Even with the latest advancements in technology, facial animation remains one of the greatest challenges, especially with hyper realistic digital humans. I delve into the complexities of working with facial animation data generated by MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine And I share how an understanding of facial anatomy, can be applied by artists, toward animating digital human facial expressions. 🔷 Thank you to the incredible people that contributed to making this video possible: ~Facial Systems Expert Melinda Ozel for her exceptional facial expression resources (https://melindaozel.com/) ~Anatomy.app for their phenomenal 3D media library that I used with their Educational Pro Subscription (https://anatomy.app/) ~Composer, Producer and Sound Designer guy penso for the fantastic original music used in this video (https://lnkd.in/eKAhmUtn) ~Jake Hicks Photography for assisting me with lighting digital humans (https://lnkd.in/eTnSPVze) ~ And finally, to the MetaHuman team and 3Lateral team at Epic Games for creating and sharing high-quality digital humans and animation tools that are accessible to artists...for free! 🔷 Gear & Assets Powered by a Puget Systems workstation Xsens for body motion capture Glassbox Technologies Dragonfly Virtual Camera Adobe Creative Cloud for video/audio editing #MetaHuman #MetaHumanAnimator #UnrealEngine #UE5 #virtualproduction #digitalhumans #facialanimation #facialanatomy #FACS #anatomy #muscles #motioncapture #mocap #smile

Fine-tuning the Jaw Region of a facial animation, captured with MetaHuman Animator in Unreal Engine. The data that is generated for the jaw region is exceptional! Its' even able to capture the forward and backward movement of the jaw...from a front-facing camera! Thank you, Epic Games! If you have ever touched facial animation data, you know, it will always need a bit of adjusting. How does one approach this fine-tuning process? Very delicately and with tons of patience! Thanks to the FACS resources by Melinda Ozel, I am learning about the various facial muscles and applying this to the MetaHuman face rig....AND I can even name a few now! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions for Facial Animators and MetaHuman users: 1# What are some of your greatest challenges/pains, when adjusting jaw region animation data? 2# What would make fine-tuning MetaHuman Animator data...easier? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Thanks to: Melinda Ozel for her resources on facial expressions (https://melindaozel.com). If you want to subscribe to her site, use the promo code (feedingwolves) for a 10% discount 😀 Jakes Hicks Photography (https://lnkd.in/eNAg3Hpj) for assisting me with the lighting. guy penso for creating the music for this video! You are a true gem! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gear: Powered by a Puget Systems workstation 😎 LOD 0 All Day!! Body data captured with Movella | Xsens MetaHuman shown with Face Control Rig / Medina from TexturingXYZ used with Faceform Wrap Virtual Camera for handheld shot and sensor/lenses captured with Dragonfly Vcam by Glassbox Technologies Anatomy Images / https://lnkd.in/eWdd9RYh /Gray, Henry. Anatomy of the Human Body. Lea & Febiger, 1918 #MetaHuman #MetaHumanAnimator #UnrealEngine #UE5 #digitalHumans #motioncapture #mocap #virtualproduction #epicgames

Unreal Engine 5.7 landed yesterday and we’re digging into what’s new under the hood in our latest Inside Unreal 🔎 Join us today at 2PM ET for an exploratory look: https://lnkd.in/ewwQQg-k

Unreal Engine 5.7 is here, with the power to help you: 🌎Build and render rich, dense open worlds. 🌿Render beautiful, detailed vegetation in real-time with Nanite Foliage. ✨Blend with true physical accuracy using Substrate Materials. 🎬Experience smoother animation workflows. 💪Get expert guidance from the new in-editor AI Assistant. And there’s even more to explore, see what else is new: https://epic.gm/UE5-7-blog