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The 2024 edition ofThe Game Awardsis nearly here,and Game of the Year controversy aside, it’s a great timeto celebrate all the great titles that made the year so memorable.
As is now tradition, part of that celebration will be taking place within the world ofFortnite. Ten Fortnite Creator Islands are up for the Island of the Year award, and fans are being asked to decide which island reigns supreme. That’s not all, though, because within The Game Awards Vote interactable in Fortnite is the host Geoff Keighley himself - sort of.
The Game Awards' host has been digitalized and put into Fortnite. Through the power of Unreal, the resemblance is pretty uncanny.
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Per an Epic Games release, this year’s iteration of Keighley has been made possible through Metahuman technology. Whereas last year’s model was a hologram done via greenscreen capture, this year’s model took advantage of Unreal’s rising tech.
Per Unreal’s website, MetaHuman is a “complete framework that gives anyone the power to create, animate, and use highly realistic digital human characters in any way imaginable.“It’s part of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and Keighley underwent multiple scans to make the character come to life.
“I saw Epic’s announcement of MetaHumans in UEFN earlier this year and thought it would be incredible to see what was possible around The Game Awards,” Keighley said in a statement. “I spent a full day at 3Lateral in Manchester, England to get scanned as a MetaHuman. You sit in a scanner and do tons of different face poses, then they scan your body too. The results speak for themselves, I truly feel like I have a digital double.”
While seemingly a tad bit creepy, it’s nothing new for Fortnite.The live-service game has hosted everything from concertstopresentations to trailers within its world. Meta Geoff is just the latest addition.
