{"id":1403,"date":"2022-09-17T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T09:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:18:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T10:18:14","slug":"stina-becomes-metahuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Stina becomes Metahuman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post about the transfer of Stina into her new world as a Metahuman in UNREAL 5<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_226\" style=\"width: 845px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Stina-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Stina-1-300x125.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"835\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Stina-1-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Stina-1-1024x428.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stina in Softimage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Stina model has existed in Softimage with our custom built facial animation system for some time. It has been the cornerstone of our production, so we were super excited to see how it faired in Metahuman, the new ground breaking character system in UNREAL.&nbsp; A recent development in the software now allows you to load in your own custom meshes and fit the system to it. (Before you had to make new heads out of blending presets.)<\/p>\n<p>First we exported the base head sculpt out of Softimage in its relaxed position:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sculpt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1405 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sculpt-1024x703.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sculpt-1024x703.png 1024w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sculpt-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sculpt-768x527.png 768w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sculpt-1536x1054.png 1536w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sculpt-2048x1405.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then converted it into a Metahuman template that identified the different regions of the face to add the animation and texturing system within unreal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/conversion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1406\" src=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/conversion-1024x693.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/conversion-1024x693.png 1024w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/conversion-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/conversion-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/conversion-1536x1040.png 1536w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/conversion-2048x1386.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Then added in the texture, hair and animation system by tweaking a wide range of built in presets. All surprisingly straightforward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/smile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"534\" src=\"http:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/smile-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/smile-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/smile-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/smile-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/smile-1536x801.png 1536w, https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/smile-2048x1067.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And a range of motion test:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oc0zsI88KIk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The results are astonishing, verging on photoreal. It&#8217;s very strange to see the sculpt we&#8217;ve been using for so many years almost seeming to take on a life of its own!  The next stage is to see how it responds to Becky&#8217;s performance. Really looking forward to bringing the other characters to life now. The Meta-world awaits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick post about the transfer of Stina into her new world as a Metahuman in UNREAL 5 The Stina model has existed in Softimage with our custom built facial animation system for some time. It has been the cornerstone of our production, so we were super excited to see how it faired in Metahuman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KdKv-mD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stinaandthewolf.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}