The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley has been transformed into a full 3D character for this year’s Island of the Year in Fortnite.
As with previous years, developer Epic Games has created a full interactive experience for you to test out the nominees and engage with minigames.
But there’s more: Keighley is actually in the game, using MetaHuman technology.
“Epic Games announced in March that MetaHumans, which can be used to create high-fidelity digital humans, can now be used in Unreal Editor for Fortnite,” he explained. “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.”
For those who don’t know, in addition to its main modes, Fortnite also empowers budding game creators to make and publish experiences of their own. These, called Islands, can then be discovered using the game’s main menu.