Blue Dot: A 3Lateral Showcase of MetaHuman Animator

[@OverwatchUA]

Insane. First time I see no CGI flaws, no uncanny valley, looks perfectly natural. Bravo!

[@blackonblack...9244]

Yea, this is going to put Hollywood out of business.

[@booooooooooooooooooooooo]

@@blackonblack...9244Hollywood is already using unreal for a lot of things. This will benefit the film industry, not destroy it

[@inkura_xyx8861]

one flaw, but its still great anyway. he spawns in near the bike scene

[@x3merx3mer]

Stunning. Thanks for translating a little piece of our Serbian culture into this world in the most amazing way possible.

[@OnyxLee]

Love to know. Would someone please explain? Thanks 🙏

[@x3merx3mer]

@@thisisjuanhoyos lol :) its a poem from our famous poet from '50s. ...as for sports, we are kinda sporty nation and very passionate in general. We were world champs in basketball many times and we are super dominant in several other sports (volleyball, water polo etc) ..we have some famous scientists (Tesla, Pupin,..) and unfortunately we are famous for having wars (2 in my lifetime). Unfortunately, idk much about Colombia, the most of it I learned from "Narcos" tv show :)

[@MyMKVids]

@@x3merx3mer You can´t leave Nole out of this my friend when talking your country up about Sports. I doubt you will ever produce anyone greater than Djokovic. This video kinda reminds me of him for some reason.

[@jacquesbroquard]

Absolutely stunning. The uncanny valley has been crossed. Performance and story are king. The first steps have been taken, thank you.

[@Heffalumpswoozles85]

This is definitely the most amazing piece of animation I’ve seen to date, but I personally wouldn’t say the uncanny valley has been fully crossed yet. The eyes, mouth and general body movements are still not quite there. The eyes still look ever so slightly dead, like the guy is not fully “awake”, and the mouth is a bit stiff. It boils down to being able to simulate the subtle micro movements and expressions on people’s faces when they talk due to the intricate system of muscles in the human face.

[@jacquesbroquard]

@@Heffalumpswoozles85 Fair enough.

[@SkrzekuZenmasters]

@Heffalumpz ​ Uncanny Valley threshold is different to anyone, and also you can feel it for even just a moment until you noticed those flaws. For me it fooled my brain for a several seconds but I still crossed it. About the eyes and expression in this example it could be just a tool because it makes sense for the mood of this scene. For me it's always lighting that reveals fakeness and most of the scene is dark anyway, don't get me wrong they actually did a ton of work to make te faces reflect light better in meta human. Hardest thing to look natural in movies and games is still realistic lighting reflections on complex tissues like skin, fur, fabrics. It takes some time to gather data with your eyes to be able to notice it, but still first glimpses at the face are what the helllllllll!?

[@Chewy1914]

The Chuckle Blink at 0:33 needs touch up i think , its ... jitttery. But this is amazing stuff. Hopefully, the animation cleanup was much easier because of MH Animator

[@jeremylawrence6041]

@@Heffalumpswoozles85 How wide is the chasm of the uncanny valley for people these days. if everything from this and as poor and the scorpion king is still in the uncanny valley then lord help. This is well and truly out of the well of the uncanny valley and almost up to the peak of being unrecognizably to real life

[@DrN0VA.]

The animation and visuals are insane, but I feel like I grew to know this character in this short time. The voice acting & music really sold everything, let's not forget about them!

[@dreamzdziner8484]

I was totally blown away by the level of realism in this character's face that I didn't even care about the whole theme. That skin texture and those soulful facial expressions. This is truly Unreal!!

[@andreasschultze6644]

I'm a professional 3D Artist and this is so extremely impressive and frightening at the same time. You struggle really hard to keep up with the speed of development. It's just crazy how good that looks in every way. Lighting, Animation, Skin slide, Hair, Sound... just everything is on another level.

[@AlexiosLair]

Imagine how many hours of work and pain it will save us! I've been using regular Live Link and on its own it already gives some result, but this is another level...

[@tonnleparauskas9327]

..ears must be next level

[@Instant_Nerf]

Your days are numbered animator. 🤣 I kid. I kid.. What an amazing tool to have.

[@nawneetkumar3510]

can you tell me how he animated metahman?

[@NoobNoob339]

It's crazy how new their path tracer is and it's already giving renders like Arnold a run for their money

[@IvicaMilaric]

Incredible work by 3Lateral, yet again! History of the global entertainment industry being made in Novi Sad, Serbia - as we speak.

[@theobod]

This is not a showcase, its a showing off

[@JarrellHall]

Aka a showcase 😂

[@Falconite]

Never been moved to tears from art like this. This is why I love this work. Rooting so hard for you artists that made this. I am gonna go get some tissues now

[@arenasvfx]

Jesus Christ, for a split second there, I completely forgot this was CG ... we are so close to eradicating the uncanny valley. Incredible.

[@timcoleman3d]

Fantastic work both artistically and technically! Kudos to the 3Lateral team who created this and Epic who keeps pushing the boundaries.

[@ManuelOrbeaOtaola]

Same team that is working on Hellblade 2

[@kennetherhabor5543]

I am not sure if I am blown away by the top-level realism or the accuracy of the facial movements. But one thing is certain, I am definitely blown away!

[@Djirologija]

Here is the beautiful poem by Mika Antic this was based on. I get shivers every time I watch this. I cannot find a flow, it is so well thought out and so well made.. Znam, mora biti da je tako: nikad se nismo sreli nas dvoje, mada se trazimo podjednako zbog srece njene i srece moje. Pijana kisa siba i mlati, vrbama vetar cupa kosu. Kuda cu? U koji grad da svratim? Dan je niz mutna polja prosut. Vucaram svetom dva prazna oka zurim u lica prolaznika. Koga da pitam,gladan i mokar, zasto se nismo sreli nikad? Il je vec bilo? Trebao korak? Mozda je sasvim do mene dosla. Al’ ja, u krcmu svratio gorak, a ona ne znajuci-prosla. Ne znam. Ceo svet smo obisli u zudnji ludoj podjednakoj, a za korak se mimoisli. Da, mora da je tako.

[@robertdouble559]

Looks like we're getting very close to climbing out of the uncanny valley. Great acting doesn't hurt! Great work!

[@mehulhirani2462]

The technology, the execution, the quality, the performance is no Doubt amazing. But the story telling and the storyline behind this is the HEART of the Film.🙏

[@JonathanWinbush]

This is crazy if they really barely had to do any clean up. Metahumans are getting really solid 🤙🏿

[@ncard00]

Watched it upscaled to 60fps on my OLED TV, looks WAY more realistic compared to 24fps, which is a cinematic framerate, where 60fps is a realistic framerate, so please unreal engine, upscale the video to 60fps, and upload it again, so people who don't have an expensive trumotion capable TV can see the difference I'm talking about on my device.

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@ncard00 what does this have to do with me??

[@harshaan8984]

@@JonathanWinbush 😂

[@ncard00]

@@JonathanWinbushYou had one of the most liked/top comments, so writing mine as a reply to yours makes mine more visible on a video with 100+ comments.

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@ncard00 haha OK I can respect that 🤙🏾🤣

[@SolomonJagwe]

Like what in the MetaHuman world!!!! OMG 😮🎉❤ I am already creating new stories, this is so liberating. We can focus on writing compelling stories, and Actors are back in business!! Totally awesome!!! The wait was so worth it. MetaHuman Animator changes everything

[@ISknne3D]

cant wait to see your work Solomon, imy only annoyance is waiting for hte downloads of the meta humans now. lol, i converted 14 of them to 5.2! now the download begins

[@SolomonJagwe]

@@ISknne3D Thank you :) I am super excited man :) Yeah, those download times, lol!!

[@ArtiomRomanov]

The first time I saw a CG realistic human being with zero “uncanny valley”. All the micro expressions are there. Only the final shot with direct light kinda gives it away. But still absolutely phenomenal!

[@vadimpetker2689]

0:44 This facial expression technology is so good that it even conveys the moment when the actor gives out that he is playing a role...

[@SoulReaper317]

Now I understand design and animation.... but oh my GOD this was on another level... It literally gave me chills. At points it felt more real than real life... what a time to be alive!

[@peterallely5417]

Man.. blown away by his performance.. beautiful, but also - what does that say about the work done on this production.. well done everyone at the studio and thanks for the tools, Epic.

[@Tanaka-Buchou]

Everything about this makes it a daily source of inspiration. The sound at the end is a melody that I wish to see rather than hear.

[@digitalzenith6527]

Professional 3d guy here.... just wanna say first minute I was trying to figure out if I am looking at a real person or a 3d character even though was obvious from the context it's 3d. Well done we are there. Films can be done with digital doubles. You amazing crazy bastards you did it!!!! Well done everyone involved. I must say I had tears in my eyes it touched me on a deep emotional level.

[@pipgoesthepossum]

This is extremely impressive, especially for the simplicity of the capture method. Wild how far we've come.

[@dynamodigitaldesign8293]

This is absolutely insane. You guys nailed the tension/compression look of the skin.

[@BoyCcns]

The uncanny valley is in our rear view mirror now. The only thing that still gives it away a bit are the teeth but it's rapidly getting there. Wow. Hats off.

[@behrampatel4872]

Insane levels of believability. cheers team 3lateral and Epic.

[@MohamedElmazen]

This is the first CG in which the eye appears in a very realistic way.. Unreal, you have become Real!!

[@synthbendati]

Wow this was so emotional and heart touching. All things, cinematic, story, feeling, music and character making by MetaHuman were awesome and so inspiring, Congratulation to the beautiful talented people behind this amazing short film

[@r.m8146]

That's the best animation I've ever seen.

[@romanbruni]

brilliant, moving, lovingly... almost missed it by a step... glad to watch ! crying cheers from Rio

[@OverJumpRally]

A slow-paced, close-up long take, by far the most difficult thing to achieve with a CGI digital double... IMPRESSIVE!! It took me a moment to realize it was not a real person!

[@IndyStry]

Thank you Epic games and UE Metahuman animator team for working hard on pushing this out and allowing people like me who do high end cg short films in UE to push their storytelling to the next level 🎉🎉

[@axelwilde1081]

I don't know which overwhelmed me more, watching that amazing piece of short cinema, which is truly a work of art, or that the power to create such beauty and wonder lies in our own hands. Bravo! Congratulations to all the teams on what must surely be the most EPIC of all days. Walls and barriers in creativity, inspiration, and storytelling are dissolving every day it seems. Inspiration levels are through the roof right now. Thank you for providing the tools to better achieve our visions in ways we never thought possible.

[@Shugarcloud]

Perfect animations. Sometimes the charms breaks and you enter and exit the uncanny, but is there.

[@ernestorodriguez4742]

That is exactly what I need, "I need performance capture to work like a mirror."

[@sinelacico]

This is the first time in my life I've forgotten I wasn't watching something real, it crossed that valley for a moment.

[@unacomn]

Outstanding! In 1080p, with the KZbin compression, there are parts where I legit stopped seeing the CGI. The limitations of the CGI are more pronounced in 4K, but it still looks absolutely amazing.

[@Eulerkk]

Amazing work on the technical side. But it is even more impressive on the art department. I was so invested in the character. Can someone please explain the plot/poem? And the music was just mind blowing.

[@cloud20zero]

​@@2b_or_not_2b_4gottenIf you look closely at his boots as he's walking towards the bike, you'll see the same blue emblem on the boots of the person lying on the ground. The narrator is the one who was in the motorcycle accident, and these are his last final thoughts before dying.

[@edomedo1983]

I think that last scene shows himself, and that all storytelling is observation of his past life and past opportunities, after you come to inevitable end without finding the true purpose. Or at least that's what I think@@2b_or_not_2b_4gotten

[@arturoorgaz]

Looks amazing, I thought it was real at the beginning. It's super impressive, games are going to be indistinguishable from reality soon.

[@ngngames2425]

im actually floored. I can't believe how this passes the uncanny valley and its available to anyone. truely amazing.

[@superqd]

So, this is the single most realistic metahuman example I've seen. At first, I really just thought it was filmed traditionally. Most meta human examples I've seen, you can tell it's animated within a few seconds. This one, you could watch the entirety and it look photographic and realistically human throughout the video. There needs to be an instructional video explaining how this level of quality was achieved compared to most every other example I've seen. Not just in the lighting and skin, but with respect to the actual facial animation. Most examples I've seen using metahuman just aren't human like enough in their motions, but this absolutely was. I don't know how/why this one was so much better compared to all the examples I've seen where people use Livelink and show their work. What is different here than what people are doing straight out of the box?

[@aleksandriarkov]

What a time to be alive! Now I can make movies just inside UE by myself. No crew needed.

[@GrantyGame]

3:08 the way the light reflects through the hair is mind blowing

[@Travestyalpha]

Incredible. The detail and natural motion just capture the emotion and look so well.

[@KeysPlays]

The first time they nailed the eyes - they feel full of life!

[@thenumbfeeling]

obviously this is beyond amazing. and the music man! i am listening on repeat!!!

[@logygm4335]

you know the name of the track?

[@nagi603]

Even lighting is almost perfect. Slight shimmering at 03:08 on the brows, but that's all that I noticed for the face. Truly spectacular. Also great as a short.

[@sajans3998]

do you think its lumen or path tracer?

[@lactobacillusprime]

Wow this is flabbergasting. This is absolutely amazing. It captures a lot of the essence of a human. The nuances in facial expression and eye movements are very real. The way the skin looks and the light is reflected from the skin and hair is how it should be.

[@MisterNyte]

Demos like this are what make me want to pursue learning Unreal for storytelling purposes

[@KevinMerinoCreations]

Amazing at so many levels! Technology, realism, compelling story, performance in front of the virtual camera, as well as the artistry to pull it all together! 👏👏👏

[@iPEMiC.]

We didn't wait for nothing, they really push the level high for the community here!

[@ljiljanadjeric1410]

My truly appreciation for the remarkable Art you have created. The attention to detail, music that was carefully created to complement the visual elements and artistic storytelling are truly exceptional. You just create a really immersive experience. Thank you! zju

[@yootoobsuks4210]

OMFG! I've never seen anything so realistic! Soon, we're not going to be able to distinguish between real or CGI.

[@ZorkoZerg]

Amazing work by 3Lateral team. It's hard to believe it is not a real person. Love the details in facial animation, and exceptionally well done metahuman.

[@JoexLegacy]

How does it capture the emotion of that look so well... Like, the actual sub-emotion is conveyed I am stunned.

[@CaptainPrice360]

The litniss test is usually you look at the mouth for inaccuracies with metahuman animations but here you look at the eye. A moment in history folks!

[@IndyStry]

My last realistic sci fi short film had Metahumans but I had to force myself to change the story because the free livelink plugin didn't do good lip sync. You'll see in the short the characters look around more than talking. Having powerful and free tools like this allows people like me to tell the story exactly how we want without any compromises!

[@mvlucilla]

Ridiculous! That is the best word to feat the most realistic and stunning animation ever. The face lift, the realism of lights, the movements, all on Metahuman are becoming the most important engine on 2024. To me it´s an out of stage innovation that nobody is hyping, but surprinsingly will appear to world even.

[@donsomacorleone]

Svaka ćast ljudi!! A stunig showcase!

[@tobiasfalk9112]

Boban! You're the heavyweight champion of mocap! This is pure visual poetry!

[@ncard00]

For once a video without s single negative comment, just pure excitement, jaw dropping disbelief, and deep appreciation all around, would imagine the video also has 0 dislikes, if we could see that… Also, please up the video quality to 4K60fps!

[@Amelia_PC]

Wow, we're about to witness Epic Games pushing the boundaries of the uncanny valley with this. I'm willing to bet that in another 5 or 10 years, we'll have seamless and indistinguishable meshes for real human faces. It's awesome!

[@rickdeckard9810]

The mouth always gives it away, and the easing in the movements.

[@simonspoke]

This is just incredible! We've definitely crossed a threshold of reality here!

[@ninjastate]

😮 wow it's really surprising how far unreal engine has come from the Day's of unreal tournament to this i told one of my friends that this was a computer render including the character and the environment i couldn't believe know

[@akiliandesign]

I want to watch the whole movie now ! Go Serbia, Djokovic, Jokic and now THIS ! WOW

[@completelymachinima]

Wow, this is a very impressive demo - minute nuances conveying such depth of emotion

[@NC17z]

Outstanding... The performance was what made that seem real. My god! I didn't have that uncanny valley feeling once. If you had told me it was real, I would have believed you and asked, "Who Shot This, Its Amazing!"

[@Leslie.Bradley]

This is incredible!! Truly mindblowing!!

[@bosaleks]

unrealistic. I got chills all over! mind-blowing!🤯🤯🤯

[@JoshFryer]

So, THAT was amazing! Great job, to the creators!

[@Gio_Panda]

I can still see it, very rarely in this whole showcase, I can see the cracks, but this is very rapidly approaching perfection. I know almost for sure I wouldn't notice if I weren't looking for them. My parents can't already, they are not used to seeing CGI, their eyes not accustomed to this kind of things. When I told my dad this was not a real video he straight up didn't believe me. This is both awe inspiring and absolutely terrifying. We already live in the era of post truth: what will happen to reality, to facts, when we can fabricate perfect, indistinguishable replicas of them, out of thin air with a bit of help from AI? What will truth even be worth then? Exciting and scary times we're living in ladies and gents.

[@OMarceloMarquesDeOliveira]

Sure enough, a 4d scan of the skin was made and exported to the tool to create the pbr material. Thanks to Epic this is possible in metahuman to create custom characters.

[@slydezero]

Incredible ! The acting, render, story, music, well done !

[@medusesteno2292]

yes, the tool is fantastic, but the artwork is fabulous, very fine work.

[@Apeinator3D]

1:54 I think there's still a bit of flickering and artifacting around the hairline with shadows being casted and highlights but apart from this, quite possibly one of the most realistic real time renderings ever created.

[@nafay3d]

mind blown

[@IvanGoremykin]

A breathtaking performance by the actor and a poignant poem 👏

[@IndyStry]

Omfg this just pushed Metahumans to another level. The opening shots felt like it was a live action video. ❤❤

[@notanagger4861]

First cinematic I've ever seen that has 0 uncanny valley. This is insane. Good job!

[@mrbabyhugh]

Thank you, you guys are UNREAL!!

[@jbach]

Brilliant! Love the soundtrack.

[@Jsfilmz]

aaron sims is godmode

[@azrhyga]

Very awesome!! Very good job for the people behind this :D

[@jeremiahpaul3804]

UE5 is so ahead of the competition its insane

[@ncard00]

I know Epic games get a lot of crap for their games and stuff, but they’ve always been incredible when it comes to unreal engine, always forget that they’re the ones who made it, mad respect for UE5, metahuman, and this demo, seriously.

[@billywashere6965]

Depends on the principle. If you're expecting to see this in games, it's a long ways away. Remember the Andy Serkis demo in UE4 using 3Lateral and Cubic Motion middleware? It's great for movies and cinematics, but doesn't translate so well to real-time runtime environments.

[@NoobNoob339]

This is definitely path tracing. You wont see this in games for a long time

[@vectoralphaSec]

You have to be when your engine is also used in other industries outside of gaming like films, animation, architecture, engineering design, and so much more.

[@abunknown234t7]

@@NoobNoob339 cyberpunk

[@xamrd]

This is simply mindblowing! Pure awesomeness.

[@SelectStart89]

I gotta to admit. The facial animation is very realistic and to me, it's more realistic than Avatar. I sometimes forget I'm watching a CGI rendered using a game engine. This is hyperrealistic. It's hard to spot the uncanny valley.

[@KurtBoulter]

With actors face capture, this has gone to where I can no longer tell that this is rendered in a game engine and would fool 99% of the public, that this was completely real.

[@oberdoofus]

Wow! Have we just Evel Knievel-ed the uncanny valley? Even if we haven't, I would be more than happy to pay $ to watch something of this quality and heart

[@sunnydutta297]

Now we are getting there :D Good job!!

[@BiggusNegus]

The craziest part to me is the technology is available to use at home right now for free. May take a couple hours to render something like this though.

[@CceezZz007]

just mindblowing! Congratulations 3Lateral and unreal team !!

[@doctordiv]

Amazing! There is a slight glitch/unnatural face jitter at 0:33 when he smiles which gives away that it's computer generated (I can probably see this because my eyes are trained to watching CGI character animations for the past 30 years playing PC games).

[@mi27262]

I would die to have a full version of this song

[@rouuuk]

did u find out

[@mi27262]

​@@rouuukunfortunately not

[@jovanpejic]

Opaaa!

[@ilocoss]

Its these UNREAL? It's most be so..... :P amazing POEM! Amazing acting, kudos to the Serbian actor, and impressive sound and music, these is truly a scream to go to these PATH!

[@alxleiva]

Wow! Best digital human I've seen!

[@SolidBobert]

Almost. Almost! I got the uncanny twinge a few times during this. But this is the best I've ever seen.

[@vadimpetker2689]

These are the kind of faces that should be in Starfield games...