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Covers face sculpting with ZBrush and MetaHuman base meshes, scar detailing using ZWrap and custom brushes, hard-surface armor creation with ZModeler, cloth simulation in Marvelous Designer, retopology in Maya, texturing in Substance 3D Painter, haircard creation with GS CurveTool and Fibershop, rigging in Character Creator 5, and final rendering with facial animation in Unreal Engine using the MetaHuman pipeline and Live Link Hub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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