Epic Games confirmed off new animation know-how throughout its State of Unreal presentation at this week’s Game Developers Conference, illustrating how developer Ninja Theory is utilizing Unreal Engine 5 to carry Senua to life for Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2. While the speak was primarily game developer-focused, the takeaway for most individuals shall be “Damn, this looks pretty good!”
Melina Juergens, efficiency seize artist for Ninja Theory, and the actor behind Senua, confirmed how Unreal 5 can take footage of a efficiency utilizing little greater than an iPhone digicam and switch it into usable facial animation. Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman technology processes that straightforward footage to use detailed facial animations to a 3D mannequin, expressing worry, anger, and extra delicate appears to be like with out a human needing to finesse it.
But utilizing a extra subtle efficiency seize rig, it will probably additionally apply extremely detailed facial animations in actual time to Epic’s MetaHuman fashions. That’s what you possibly can see within the video above — which additionally serves as a contemporary, albeit transient, take a look at Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, a title we haven’t heard from in a while.
Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2 is coming to Windows PC and Xbox Series X. Ninja Theory’s sequel to 2017’s Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice doesn’t have a launch date.
Source: Polygon
