uncanny valley of digital avatars

• pixar - stylize to convey story instead of completely chase photo realism

Goodbye Uncanny Valley — Alan Warburton

tools to make digital avatar

• MakeHuman - no photo ral ability at all, just free + open source + blender friendly
• Ready Player Me (SDK in UE) transfer gatchets cross platform (cross roblox to fortnite)
• Avaturn (picture —> fortnite) light way and easy to deal with
• Reallusion Character Creator - better hair, more photo realistic (export? 600)
• Daz - free
• Zbrush - make on your own - skill set add for life (Maxone thru NYU)

MetaHuman (in UE)

• not rcmd for virtual production (is a bit overkill) production? sure
• still not that photo realistic

MetaHuman Animator

Meta Synth

retargeting - map facial motion data to digital avatar motion