Features for creating MetaHumans
Whatever engine or rendering environment you plan to use further down the pipeline, MetaHumans start life in Unreal Engine. Leverage MetaHuman Creator’s high-fidelity presets as starting points or use Mesh to MetaHuman with your own unique scan or sculpt to quickly and easily create highly realistic and hugely varied digital humans.Easily create believable characters from our database.
With MetaHuman Creator in Unreal Engine, you can quickly create convincing new characters by selecting a preset as a starting point, blending it with others, and then intuitively sculpting and refining the results—including variants of hair, eyes, teeth, skin, and more—within the constraints of our database of real-world scans and key body measurements you can set.Create a character from a mesh, scan, or capture footage.
Easily turn capture footage or a pre-existing mesh created by sculpting, scanning, or traditional modeling into your own unique fully rigged MetaHuman with Mesh to MetaHuman in Unreal Engine. Then, further refine it in MetaHuman Creator or other DCCs. Your custom MetaHuman is fully compatible with all other aspects of the MetaHuman feature set.Adapt, refine, and extend your MetaHumans in other DCCs.
Customize your MetaHumans’ faces and bodies in Maya to apply technical fixes, art direct expressions, and build unique stylized or pseudo-human characters. You can also import them into Houdini and use its procedural toolset to craft complex groom assets in context, as well as designing bespoke clothing for them in Marvelous Designer.MetaHuman for Houdini
Buy and sell ready-made MetaHumans and accessories.
Looking for pre-built options? Look no further than the Fab marketplace, where a talented community of creators are expanding the MetaHuman gene pool, tailoring distinctive wardrobes, creating custom coiffures—and reaping the rewards. And with automatic fitting, you can even swap outfits between MetaHumans of different shapes and sizes.Meet the community.
Need help, inspiration, or advice? You’re not alone out there! MetaHuman’s friendly community is here for you.