Epic Games’ MetaHuman creation tool launches out of early access

MahumanA development tool for Epic Games games to quickly create realistic digital human characters, is now out of early access and available for all developers with today’s release of Unreal Engine 5.6.

With the new update, developers can now use metal animation to generate real -time animations and audio from almost any mono camera (such as webcams and most smartphones). Any camera that works with Unreal Engine Likelink, including certain Android phones, can take advantage of these features.

Metahuman Creator, on the other hand, now has an extended assortment of character forms and textures, and improved fidelity thanks to improvements to the capture and processing of digitized data. This will help the teams to create even more realistic characters for their projects.

During the Unreal opening state to Unreal Fest 2025, Epic Games demonstrated a real -time demo from Metahuman with an extraterrestrial character named Blue. Using a minimum camera configuration, an actor behind the scenes was able to talk to the crowd in real time, Metahuman causing his facial expressions and his movements without any notable delay with precision.

Epic also revealed that he had updated the EULA license from Unreal engine to include metahumans, so now developers can use the tool in any game engine or creative software.

Disclosure: Epic Games paid my way to Unreal Fest.