Name: MetaHuman Creator
Uploaded: 2025-02-02T14:00:27.098Z
Duration: 2 min 33 s
Description: A free cloud-based tool for creating photorealistic digital humans, fully rigged and ready for animation.

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A free cloud-based tool for creating photorealistic digital humans, fully rigged and ready for animation.

MetaHuman Creator

Oh dude that looks exactly like her. This is so close. This is Angelina and today we're going to be creating her meta human using Unreal Engine 5.

And you are going to learn exactly how we do it step by step using metahumans. You can turn anyone into a photorealistic avatar and they come rigged head to toe ready for production. And the best part is it's simple and free. We started by 3D scanning her using an app called Polycam. Then cleaned it up in Blender and took it to Unreal Engine 5 to process the metahuman. We took it to the metahuman Creator website to do the final customizations to turn on Jelena from this to this. 

Let's get it. Today we're here for the photogrammetry workout. We got Angelina right there. First time doing photogrammetry, our first time doing photogrammetry. We're going to be 3D scanning her face. We're gonna go three loops: eye level, high angle, low angle. So when you're doing your photo scan, make sure your subject is comfortable. Angelina needs to stay still while we're doing the scan. That's why we have this video in the front. So when I'm moving and scanning her, she's not going to be looking at me or get distracted. This is going to be the solution. Are you ready? 

Foreign, we're using the photo mode on Polycam. [Music] So we have all these photos. We try to do an orbit at eye level and in high level and then low level, and then we did close-ups. What you want to do is remove the photos that are out of focus. Even though you seem to give details, they actually don't. They're just going to ruin your polygons and your texture, so you want to get rid of them. And then you can go for processing. 

For the processing, we're going to go full and we don't need to turn on object masking because that's for like small items. And I'm going to upload and process. So what we're doing right now is going into Polycam. What we have to do is export this and put it into Blender. And how we're gonna do that is click this download button and export it as a GLB. And once this is done, we're gonna bring it and import it as a GLB5 within Blender. 

Sending it now. Open WhatsApp, download the GLB file. Unreal Engine 5 only needs the face. We don't need the body, the neck, and so we're going to do all the cleanup here. First step is to import the GLB file. Say yes, sir. Yes, sir. Dude, that looks beautiful aside from her eyelashes. There.

Is almost no artifact on her face. This is a clean scan. The way she's sitting is just so majestic. This is like a very chill wow. This is so close she looks like a doll. If you look at the scan, her eyelashes have become part of the texture. But I feel like we can actually recreate her face texture on Unreal Engine 5's MetaHuman Creator. What you want is the face. The goal right now is to go ahead and clean up this geometry and remove any unwanted part of the model, which means everything else but the front part of the face. 

And we're going to do that by going into the edit mode and literally removing the vertices that we don't need. So I'm just going to go to the toggle x-ray mode. Just going to hit C so I can do this as quick as possible. I'm just gonna quickly get rid of her body here and X vertices, so that's gone. We do not need her hair either. That is going to be recreated in the MetaHuman Creator, so we're gonna remove this. 

One thing you can do actually is just open another window right here. In this window, go out of x-ray mode. You can potentially even go into like the render mode just to make sure you're not getting rid of anything necessary. Take a look at this boom. If your ears are not covered by your hair, you can keep them. But since hers are, I'm just gonna get rid of them. This looks like the Game of Thrones scene, yes, of the faceless Faceless Men. I wish Game of Thrones followed through for that. That was the most exciting part of two seasons. 

The more time you spend here cleaning it up, of course, it's going to propagate into the results that you have. I'm pretty happy with this. The next thing that you're gonna do, you need to clean up the mesh before we send it to our New London five. The MetaHuman Creator doesn't tend to like meshes that are dirty. Once you look at the mesh right now, you see it seems like it's broken. That's what happens because the different parts of the mesh are not connected. That's what happens when we use Polycam. 

There's three steps to follow, very quick, very easy, that you need to do before you import this within Unreal Engine 5. And you do that by going to the edit mode, select your entire mesh, and go to mesh cleanup, delete loose.

And look at the bottom. It removed some of the vertices that were extra in the scene that you didn't need. Select your mesh again. Go to clean up, degenerate dissolve, and merge by distance. It's going to remove 274 vertices. These are extra vertices that you do not need. And now the model is all connected, as you can see when I select it. 

So now that we're done, we're going to select this as part of the object that we want to export. Go to file, export, FBX, and make sure you have selected objects because we don't want to export anything else but the mesh. I'm just going to click mesh since that's what we're exporting. We do not have animation for the material. If you want to have the material in there, because we are going to use a material, change the path mode to copy and click on this button, embed textures, to send a text features in your FBX file. 

Export FBX. We're going to go out of Blender, Unreal Engine. Damn right, you have Epic Games open. You want to go ahead and open the engine version that currently supports meta-humans, and you can do that by going to the bottom. If you don't have the meta-human plugin installed, go to the marketplace and install it. But if you have it, then you have something like this, meta-humans installed here. 

If you can check, create a project, and you can see the engine versions that are available. Right now, we are on 5.2, but 5.2 doesn't support meta-human, so that's why we need to go back a version and create for 5.1 engine, 5.1.1. So we're gonna go to the film and video live event. I'm going to open a bank project, just have ray tracing on. This is just something I do all the time: project location, the project name, and hit create. 

Hello darkness, mild. Yeah, if it's the first time you're opening up a project, it's very likely that you have to compile shaders and wait a while, so be patient. Patience is key. While we have time, go answer some comments, and I'm gonna subtitle our video. Don't waste any time. 

[ __ ] Unreal Engine 5 is finally open, so we're gonna go to edit, go to plugins, make sure you have meta-humans installed. It's not installed, so put it in there, click yes, restart, and wait again. All right, now that we have meta-humans in there, all we have...

To do open a Content browser by hitting control space. Make a new folder here right a new folder. I'm gonna call it 3D scan and we're going to import the 3D scan that we have. I'm gonna drag it drop it in here import all beautiful we have Angelina's face scan. You don't have to do this I just like to view it. You can just drag it and drop it in the scene just see what it looks like scale it up and it looks great. 

We're going to add search for metahuman identity right color whatever you want save all like always. Open The Meta human identity and once this guy's open it's going to probably connect to Epic Games. The reason for that is because it's going to be using the meta human Creator website. So once you're in the management identity you want to go to the top left section components from mesh click that and here we want to add the face scan to the scene. We see it right over here if you don't see it search for it boom. 

What we're going to do is just bring the camera down just so it's at eye level and the next thing we're going to want to do is click on this three bars. Make sure to fill the view is somewhere like 15 and the reason we do that is because you want to get a flatter face because we're going to be using that scene right here to recognize the landmarks on the face the eyes the eyebrows the nose and the mouth. We're going to go to unlit unlit just make sure there's even lighting all across our face again better for finding the landmark. 

All we have to do is go and choose our body type essentially you can always change these later on but for now we're just going to go with something that suits the character we want to go for. You're gonna go to neutral pose and the reason why you go there is because you need to now promote a frame. You're gonna tell on your 195 I want to lock this Frame use this Frame to recognize the face Landmark so you want to go ahead and click promote frame and now it's locked this Frame. 

The next thing you're going to want to do is Click track active frame. Track active frame is going to automatically find the landmarks on our face let's see if it can do a good job even though our eyelashes are kind of messed up and wow wow.

The eyes okay so I'm just going to quickly adjust this guy. You know well I have, as you can see, a reference photo of Angelina. Make sure you take reference photos of your subject. Even though her eyelashes are covering her eyes here, I'm just gonna make sure if it's done right on the left top left it should come a bit lower. So I'm pretty confident about this. 

Once you're done, it's time to go for that meta-human identity solve. Boom, that's the moment. Okay, so we're essentially done. Before you go to meshire human, which sends this model to The Meta human Creator website where you can further customize it, you can actually check the mesh right here by clicking B. We have her face mesh, and if you want to see this is something that is close to the mesh or not, it's actually very easy to do. All you got to do is hit neutral pose, hit template mesh, and I can now go around the model. 

You can see wow this is the perfect [ __ ] face mesh. We managed to get Angelina's face smash to the dot. We're just gonna quickly go back to A and B. Wow, so you can see this perfect match actually. In the B menu, you can take off the template mesh or actually a neutral pose overlaying her own face on top. You can see the nose is on point, the lips are on point, the cheeks are on point. Actually, I think this is the best meta human you've ever made probably. 

All right, click okay so mesh meta human. This is going to send it to the meta human Creator website. Why don't we go ahead and open the meta human Creator website managment.onialengine.com? Unreal Engine 5.1 is the version we're going for, so launch meta human Creator. Your meta human is now a bridge. We do not need a new engine open at this time, so we're just going to close it. 

So make sure you save all, click refresh. Now it's going to come in as a mesh with no textures, nothing. Our goal right now is to turn this into it. Yeah, can we turn your eyes are amazing? Like it's really close. Like I didn't [ __ ] up the eyes though. The best way to do this is, like I said, always have a reference photo of your model. We're going to open up a photo of Angelina on the side. The first thing we gotta do is go to custom mesh here if there's any part of our face.

That doesn't look like her. You can actually click on the influence so you can select the region and reduce the influence. Just check out the overall influence. See that? See the difference? Click enable editing, duplicate, and unlock. Will keep the main version so if you [ __ ] it up, you can always come back to it. 

We're going to do that. Let's start with skin. Assign skin texture. She has a fair skin, so I would say pretty light, lighter, yeah. Eyes, so we're both color blind. The problem is we cannot use. Okay, can we scan? Yeah, there's a photo Color Picker that will tell you what color is your photo. We need this because we're both colorblind. You can use this to your advantage. 

Let's try this. I think this is her eye color. I think I'm right. Yeah, so for her hair, is this? Was this her hair? No, definitely not. We might have to do custom here. Enable hair dye. We're gonna put the makeup on and everything, and this is gonna get closer, trust me. Let's go for this. We're closing it on it. 

Eyelashes, if you look at long curl. Oh my God, we're getting close. Long thick curls. Oh my God, yes. Okay, all right, everybody help me out here. Help me out here. If this is the color of her foundation, what color does this match? Okay, definitely not at the top. See, be smart. People probably my guess is this. I might be wrong. If I'm wrong, let me know in the comments. 

Okay, eyes, eyes, eyes. Guys, this is gonna make like the [ __ ] difference. Are you guys ready for this? I'm not ready for this. Are you guys ready for this? Boom! My biggest problem is that the hairs don't match, so it's hard to tell. No, I think you should try this. Yes, but I think we have to start sculpting. 

But you gotta be very careful because when you move things here, things get messed up. Move these ears back. Yes, like this. Chubbiness of the cheeks, that is giving it away. Detect who's the thief. They have four second racks of paper. No, they cover and they will ask like because they want to identify the guy, right? 

Yeah, does it look the same? And then they put different. So one, oh, two, two, three, three, and four. Okay, let's do that right now. Let's do that right now. If you can con this way, you know what's the problem, right? Easily, you can don't get distracted.

APS push it up oh yes yes too long wait yes. Who's this better but she has fuller eyebrows. It's not black brown yeah it's got her much closer. Yeah much because this one right eyelashes can be better yes. Check the give me copy this is the [Music]. 

Oh this angle we are definitely closed. So after an hour of customization within the meta human Unreal Engine website, we now have a final result ready. We represent you Angelina's meta human right here. Look at that dude I think we nailed the makeup especially on the eyes. The makeup is great right? I would say her general facial structure is really well done like the nose that she oh the nose is amazing. The nose is really really close yeah. 

And if you look at like check this out check out the sad pose this is exactly good. This is so good this is so good. So we can already tell okay this is around 80 percent there. Is it complete? Is it a perfect clone? No not really not but that's the whole purpose of this tutorial. We wanted to show you in this video how you can start by scanning your friend yourself and take that scan into blender, clean it up, take it to a new Legend 5, create a meta human out of it, and then bring it to the meta human Creator website to turn yourself or your friend into an actual clone, an actual meant to human. 

However, there is a limitation farad you're aware of this yeah. There's only a certain amount of customization you can do within the Creator website and it will be a waste of time for us to go and keep working on this. And so a shout out to real-time graphx for having a course about full-on customization of metal humans. That means you can customize the hair, you can customize the eyebrows, you can go out and add your own makeup that you like. 

And are we going down tomorrow? We're [ __ ] doing that tomorrow damn right we're doing that. That's why we're gonna cut the video right here. Up until this moment whoever wanted to create a management oh they can do it. They can it will be as close as you know they can get in one day exactly. I would say this is more of like beginner to intermediate. Tomorrow's tutorial is going to be advanced exactly. It's gonna be advanced because we're gonna be.

Importing this model into Unreal Engine 5 and then to Blender to add customizations to the mesh. Right the next parts that will come after that are gonna be for the hair. They're gonna be textures in Substance Painter. The goal is we want to take this to our Egyptian scene. Yeah, that's gonna be [ __ ] go. 

But but but our Discord server is open. Make sure you get in there. We're gonna put all this nudes. Yeah, all the steps that they took today in our Discord. If you create any meta human, come and share it with us. We would love to see your work too. 

Yeah, and we also oh we are also going to be sharing a written file document on all the steps in this video for anybody who doesn't want to keep re-watching this video and wants to just look at that. Although the watch time will help, so please do us. If you are here until now, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Then since you're here, see you guys tomorrow. Ciao.

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