Death Stranding 2 uses the MetaHuman tool from Epic Games to create realistic models of people

From the announcing trailer of Death Stranding 2, it became known that the MetaHuman tool is used in the development of the game.

Although the continuation of Death Stranding is still based on the Decima engine of Guerrilla Games studio, new technology from Epic Games is also involved in the creation of the game.

Metahuman is a framework that allows you to quickly create highly polygonal 3D models of a person using procedural generation.

The software includes a free cloud application MetaHuman Creator, with which the modeling of photorealistic digital people takes a few minutes.

Apparently, Metahuman will be used in Death Stranding 2 only for minor NPCs.

The key characters in the game are still played by real actors, whose appearance is accurately reproduced on models by scanning.

The DS2 cast includes Norman Reedus, Lea Seydoux, Elle Fanning, Shiori Kutsuna and Troy Baker.