3D Animation Generator · Free

MetaHuman

MetaHuman by Epic Games lets creators build and animate photorealistic, fully rigged digital humans with hair and clothing in minutes, with in-engine MetaHuman Creator, facial animation from video and audio, and Mesh to MetaHuman.

Photoreal, fully rigged digital humans in minutesFacial animation from webcam, video or audioMesh to MetaHuman conversionBuilt into Unreal Engine

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Updated Oct 7, 2026

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Key Features

What’s in the toolkit?

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MetaHuman Creator in Unreal Engine
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Photoreal characters with hair and clothing
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Full facial and body rigs
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MetaHuman Animator
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Real-time facial animation from webcam, video or audio
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Mesh to MetaHuman
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Parametric body
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Fab preset collections
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Maya integration
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Open source core libraries (MIT)

What is MetaHuman?

Create and animate photorealistic digital humans in minutes

MetaHuman is Epic Games' framework for creating and animating photorealistic digital humans. In minutes, creators can build a completely bespoke character that is fully rigged, with hair and clothing, ready for games, film, live events and real-time experiences on devices from mobile to console.

Create a digital human

MetaHuman Creator: an in-engine tool to generate photoreal characters from presets or Fab collections.
Mesh to MetaHuman: turn an existing mesh or footage into a MetaHuman.
Parametric body: extends MetaHuman's face workflow to the whole body.

Animate with nuance

MetaHuman Animator captures the subtleties of a performance as facial animation, including real-time animation driven by a webcam, video or audio. A Maya integration supports art direction and expression customization, and core MetaHuman libraries are available as open source under the MIT license.

Built into Unreal Engine, MetaHuman is the leading 3D animation generator for realistic digital humans in games, cinematics and virtual production.

Category: 3D Animation Generator
Pricing: Free
Company: Epic Games
Platform Access: 1 feature

Use Cases

Where teams put it to work

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Realistic game characters
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Cinematics and animated films
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Virtual production
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Digital doubles
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Live events and concerts
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Real-time avatars

Workflow

How to use MetaHuman?

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Install Unreal Engine and enable MetaHuman.
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Create a character in MetaHuman Creator from presets, or convert a mesh with Mesh to MetaHuman.
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Customize face, body, hair and clothing.

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Animate the face with MetaHuman Animator from a webcam, video or audio.
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Use it in your Unreal game, cinematic or virtual production, or refine it in Maya.

Pricing

Pricing for MetaHuman

Free

MetaHuman is free to use with Unreal Engine, and its core libraries are open source under the MIT license. Use is governed by Epic's licensing terms; see the MetaHuman licensing page for details.

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