 Hi everyone and welcome back to Game Dev Academy. I'm Shane and this video is going to take a look at the Further development that Reallusion have made with their character creator for software So a couple of months ago We looked at their first sort of work in progress video and that did quite well people seemed really interested in that So now that they've dropped another one I thought I'd follow that up with their further developments would take a look at how cool This is looking because it really interests me and I can't wait to get hold of it and have a little play around with it With that being said then let's just jump straight into Looking at the video that they have released and see what the new features are all about. Shall we? Okay, so boom. Let's play So we start by looking at this guy and we're looking at metahumans I think is the focus of this particular work in progress level up digital humans there we go So you can see this guy is all about these subtle animations if you look at That I think they're showing us here that they've got two sort of levels of control So this one's your standard which has 60 blend shapes and then you can increase that to Extended level which has a hundred and forty which is more than double that And then you can see here looks like they're now showing us Some of these things that you can change are like even like twitching the muscles in the neck Moving the eyes around dialing the pupils Moving the ears so people can wiggle their ears. Can't I can't Yeah changing the shape them up like this is levels of control on rings that I've never really played with and you can see that they've got this really nice Interface as well so that you know which part is which Having like a graphical user interface for any character rig can make it so much easier to work with I Find it much easier anyway. Now. This always blows my mind So it's compatible with 3d software. So you've got the standard level control with this and this will be coming from an iPhone most likely with the The link up app they've got and I think this is amazing That I'm still looking for a broken iPhone. That's not so broken that I can't use it to give that a try myself So now we're going to get some comparisons. I think yes, you've got 60 expressions and Versus 40 and you can see everything just gets a little more refined It's essentially the same face shape and if I'm honest I would stick to the 60 expression sliders because I'm quite lazy But for those people that really want realism and that control you can see that it gives you that and It all the extra control makes such a reason that most people don't really make that shape this one look at that So blow in a raspberry Not something you think about but it's rippling the lips when it's got all the extra controls So that's without it. It doesn't really manage to ripple the lips But there's still a good amount of control and then when you bring that extra control in like something like blowing a raspberry is Quite difficult to do. I really like that Okay, so now they're looking at the smart skin shader. So what I like about this is they're essentially starting with the same base character And they're changing the properties of the skin. So the skin shader is really nice anyway But you can adjust it for Ethnicity Which so you can start with the same base character, but then make it look representative of whoever it is You're trying to create So you can see they're moving between someone who looks more Asian to someone who's got more black features And then they change the skin tone accordingly in both cases and the results really good. Obviously, they're changing other things as well But how cool is that? So we've also got fast skin color Alteration non-skin area excluded. So they're not doing the non-skin area here, but they're changing the Sort of base skin what would be the human skin on this and you can see just with sliders They're able to change the color of the skin What else have we got skin optimization highlight excessive details So here it seems that they are changing the blend between the freckles and the skin color Which is really cool and then they can change the skin tone in Quite a subtle way using a standard sort of color picker and then blend between the two and It's the all these little blemishes and imperfections freckles Acne sparse things like that that really make skin look realistic So we can also use color tones. So now I think they're blending between you've got this sort of paint face paint going on and they're blending that between there as well So solid skin skin optimization speed response across four higher skin materials So it looks like you've got some presets to get you going Which is brilliant and then you can further refine those pretty quickly Again, you know if getting the ethnicity of your character is important and getting it right quickly Then you can throw it in there. I like this. So the fact that this blew my mind when I first saw it Let me just go back So this star by dropping a picture of that fella onto the model and it does it Wow And then they can change the rest of the skin tone to make that feel more naturalistic Make it all blend Which again is amazing to me. Yeah getting that all to blend I think between the original one and the photo and how that comes in and then they've gone further For all the kind of fine details and they've created this wicked looking old man. How good is that? I love it. So, I mean, we know if you're doing them digital human skin is really important Bake she had a color to texture for a live link or export So once you're done here, you can bake all this down to textures put it wherever it needs to go Or you could live link it with an engine or whatever else. So there's your John. That's been baked down to this new color Nice. Yep, and they're showing us all the different textures that get baked out. That's brilliant And this is also coming soon So keep an eye out for that and Tell me what you're most excited about in this software. I am Really excited and I can't wait to get hands on with it I like I like the drag and drop to create a character And all the fine controls again Having so many facial controls and using that with something like live link because again I personally don't have the patience to animate all those by hand But when you're bringing in some way like the live link app So that you can quickly get some animation down and then you might just refine that later that to me is Amazing also if anybody knows where you can find like iPhones that are you know cheap iPhone I think it needs to be iPhone 8 or greater so that I can have a play with this I would totes create some tutorials on setting that all up as well because Oh, it would be good. So if you've got any information on where I'm or how I might go about that Legally, I don't be you know, I don't want to get it from your dealer or whatever, but let me know in the comments And hopefully found this useful if you want me to keep you updated with further developments of this software as Reallusion continues to drop these work in progress videos Then just let me know and I'll do that I find it really interesting it keeps me on top of it as well And I think that's it. So thank you for watching and I hope to see you next time. Bye