With the NVIDIA studio, they updated where they have
artificial intelligence in it that will take your eyeballs,
right? They replace your eyeballs using
artificial intelligence and they make them focus on the screen.
So if you could, I could literally be looking over here.
But the AI is making it look like I am looking at you like
seriously right now I'm not using it so you know, freaked
out. Welcome back to the Great
British Youtubers Podcast with me, Neil Mossey.
Hello. It's the place where we share
tips, tricks and experiences from creators around the world,
Very literally. Today it's a special edition.
We're going stateside. Great British Youtubers Podcast,
USA Edition. We are meeting writer,
filmmaker, animator, YouTube extraordinaire, Solomon Jaguay.
Hello. Hello.
Thank you so much for joining us on this episode because you have
a number of YouTube channels, but your main channel has I
think 644 videos, 22,000 subscribers. 3.2 million views.
It's absolutely incredible. Before we go into the details of
your channel, Solomon, what would you say to your 15
subscriber self? What do you know now that you
wish you knew when you were starting out on YouTube?
I probably would say, what are you thinking, you know, because
I had no idea what I was doing. And when YouTube first came out,
I've been on this platform for a long time, actually.
And it wasn't until the pandemic that my wife, you know, sat me
down and said, do you know that you're sitting on a goldmine?
I was like, what do you mean? She said, come, I I have a video
to show you. And she showed me a video of
another YouTuber who said out. And they, I saw the trend.
I'm like, you mean you can make money on YouTube?
And she's like, yes, look at what this guy did.
And he said, you're perfect for it.
I'm like, Oh my gosh. So when I look at where I am
now, I'm like, why didn't I start earlier?
You know, like, what was I thinking?
That's what I said to myself. Are you able to describe your
your channel? My channel has gone through an
evolution there. Was it a time when it was
dormant? Me just pop throwing videos here
and there? The early videos that I did were
really just tests. With me not saying much at all.
Like if I saw if I created a cool video in 3D, I'll just
throw it up and then go my way. I didn't even care about
subscribers at the time. It was nothing.
It was just a platform to almost like archive, like something I
can go like a time, you know, capsule of sorts.
Currently the way the channel is set up is seeing how far I've
come in this industry and seeing that I am an immigrant from
Africa, having been able to make it to the US.
I've been made through the, you know, the defense contractor.
While creating, you know, video games, creating cinematics and
animation and creating films and then creating an animated series
as a one man team. I've wanted to find a way to
help other people who are on a similar path.
Like you can actually start somewhere and I want to.
I want to show people this is where I was.
You know, I at one point in my life.
I was a young African boy in a village somewhere, walking
barefoot, having no idea what a computer is to where I am now.
And I want to encourage anyone who has a dream out there the
day we are living in an amazing time.
Right now, the tools are on our fingertips.
Right now you can actually bring your dream to life, yeah.
That's so true. It's so true and and at the
moment Solomon your your main channel it seems to be how Tos
and tutorials. In animation and animation
technology, would that be a good way of describing it?
Yes. Yeah, because one thing that
I've always been as an artist is that I was, of course, trying to
do things a little bit differently.
Like how can I improve myself? I've never been like,
comfortable or happy with how good I was yesterday.
I'm always trying to get to better myself as an artist, and
so when I look around, I'm always looking around for tools
that can help me tell my stories better.
Like I do a lot of like facial animation and storytelling.
That is the motive. And so I've always tried to find
technologies out there that could help me.
And when I find it and I'm able to do something really good with
it, I share the showcase and then I show the behind the
scenes of how I brought it to life so others can learn from
that as well. One of your videos was
absolutely incredible. It it, I hope I explain it
correctly. But it seems to be that you had
created a script in AI and a narrator, a human narrator in
vision telling the story and and it was illustrated by AI.
I mean it just seemed so far ahead and yet so on the on the
cutting edge of where we're living right now.
How was that video to make? I think just like any artist out
there right now, in the moment that we're living in it is
scary, you know, to see what a I is capable of doing right and
you're all constantly thinking of your job security.
You're thinking about your style being taken by somebody else
and. Essentially competing with you
because someone can literally go into a pitching session having
said according to the style of so and so right?
And then they present something similar or even better than
yours because they're able to do multiple iterations.
With no like effort. When I did that video, I was
like, can I actually how far can really can a I go in terms of
storytelling? Can you do the facial animation?
Can you do the script? Can then I take that text and
then do an audio narration out of it?
And I come from a like a like an environment in Africa where we
grew up with storytellers around us, you know, with our
grandparents will sit us down and they will tell us stories,
but now we have this platform. That can actually do a lot of
that, right. And you can take a voice from
somebody else, replace it. And so I was testing it to see
how far you know in, in a way it was like, can this take my job?
Can this technology take my job? And the more I think about them,
like yes, we're going to be very easily replaced.
And the reason I said that because I was thinking about
even, you know, the Tesla company, you know, like the
factories. I was watching a video and I saw
how these machines are able that they own a factory line, they're
assembling the Teslas and there was no human intervention.
The only time that there was a need was when there was
something that needed to be articulated and pushed into like
a like a collection like you know, in the engine part of it
and that's what the robots didn't have the dexterity.
And so the way as AI is advancing, I see more and more
of that happening and I mean you can see the up right now online.
You guys are happily creating these things with me, Jenny, but
that's on the back of artists who have come before.
AI cannot create something out like in a vacuum.
It needs to learn from someone just like us.
As artists, we have to learn from somewhere to create.
But the problem with AI? Is it's taking someone's hard
and hundreds of hours years of learning to create that style
and then making it so easy for other people to recreate that
with no effort. So someone who is like a writer
doesn't really have to hire you if they would definitely want to
like if they want to create like a book cover they can just say
in the style of this person the engines are getting better and
better and better in like mid journey 5.2.
Right now he's crazy. It's getting better and better
and better and after a while I don't know if it's they will
come like a time where there's a.
Loop where it is ingesting its own what it has learned, like it
has now its own database. Now it's learning from that and
then you're starting to see things differently.
But the offset was it set off with a database of images that
were script over the Internet to create that.
But when I created that video, it really was a test to see how
far I could really go. Yeah, it's a it's a really
amazing video. I'll link to it down in the
description. What is your favorite video on
your channel? Man, that's a hard one, yeah.
I think the most recent video that I've done of using the meta
human animator of a meta human singing with me wearing a motion
capture suit. I think that to me is a
combination of all the things that I've been wanting to do
over a period of time to get like convincing facial
animation. And be able to express something
that is inside. Because I really do lean on my
faith a lot and in all my videos, I always finish it with
I'm praying for you guys, you know, please stay safe and all
that because I truly believe in that.
I truly believe in the spirit of love.
And so that's the first time that I've really created a video
and I'm like it came out like I really wanted to, you know.
So I think it is my favorite, but I also love to sculpt.
My most popular video is probably one of my favorite
videos as well-being able to sculpt.
In real time on an iPad Pro. That is also one of my top
favorite videos, I think. Can you tell me about your other
channels? You have more than one channel,
don't you? This is funny because the first
time I made a mention of AI on my channel, I lost subscribers.
Like artists are really upset that I even dared to mention AI.
And no, I was like, Oh my gosh, yeah.
How? How many subscribers?
At the time, I think I lost about like 10 subscribers in one
one of the videos. Yeah.
And it was like jarring. I'm like guys.
I usually do these things like I I look out there for
technologies that, you know, coming up on the market and I
share with you. But they there was like when I
say when I talked about at the time, it was right in the heat
of the moment. You know, where there was such
land and uproar, like anger in the artist art community, I
could feel it. It was almost powerful.
And I I was like, I understand guys.
So I said I made a promise. I said guys, I hear you.
I am not going to talk about a I in the way that you know where
I'm experimenting with it. I'm going to create a separate
channel so that you guys who don't like a I can still enjoy
the content on this channel. And for those of you who feel
like you want still want to know where this industry is headed,
you can go to the other channel. So I create a separate channel
and it's, I call it surreal error and it really is like
research and development and it's a I, right.
And there I unashamedly just go through and test you know
products out there that are using a I and not worry about
people you know saying This is why you creating this kind of
content because they on YouTube you get like boxed in in a way.
Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes not.
But when people start expecting a certain way and YouTube also
expects it, like when they started, they start seeing a
trend on your channel and then they recommend your content to a
specific group of people. Those people have a specific
interest you know, so when those that specific interest is
threatened, they will live. They're not going to stay around
because they feel like I don't need to be here.
So that's why I encountered that in real time.
I experience it and I'm like, I I understand, you know, let me
create something different outside of that.
And then I also have another channel for Cosa and Nancha.
Which is for our children's animated.
Series. How did that Channel come about?
That one actually is a product of our homeschooling journey
with my wife. And so my wife is African
American and I am from Africa, in East Africa, Uganda, and we
were trying to find a resource for our kids to learn about my
culture, right? And so the two characters that
you see on the website are actually inspired by my daughter
and son. And they early run in the
process they did the voice acting.
So I right now we're going through like our actual
situation where they are, they've outgrown their
characters because my son's voice has deepened.
He's no longer playing the little boy that says so, just
like YouTube channels go through like phases.
Yeah, this series has gone through phases where even
earlier on in the process we had like a different type of look
and feel. We've rebranded and all our
characters now match the comic book characters that we have in
our in our three books that we've made.
But it's one of my that's my favorite project to work on is
that because I love creating content for children and it's a
really testament to my grandmother who I grew up with.
In the village, because I remember in the 1979 war of Idi
Amin, Dada, I think most people in the world relates Uganda to
Idi Amin. But for me, I was a kid at the
time and I was in the, the war was going on and I was in the
village with my grandmother. We didn't have any sort of
entertainment, and the only entertainment I had was my
grandmother sitting me down in the evenings.
I tell me stories of, you know, folk tales and she would say the
same story multiple ways. And that's how I learned to tell
stories and creating children for critic quantity.
And children. For children, it's a legacy of
sorts because my grandma is passed away and I am doing my
best to pass on that legacy of storytelling, African
storytelling, to future generations.
It's amazing, isn't it? Because, you know, I grew up in
a time before YouTube and the idea that we have something
that. Is accessible for free forever
globally. Is is.
It's mind blowing. Once the channel started
growing, companies started reaching out to me and then I
got access to hardware that I never could afford before.
And so I not everyone, like people in my audience, can
afford the kind of hardware that test, but I show them what is
possible that the next time. You're thinking about going
beyond the idea that you have and you have a budget.
This is the kind of quality that you can create with the hardware
that's on the market right now. So brands reach out to you to
get onto your channel. Yes, my favorite supporter, I
guess the sponsor in all of them is, I don't know if it's OK for
me to mention this. Yeah, Yeah, on your channel,
Puget Systems. They've been so helpful.
Like there was a time when I was struggling to render some of my
characters in the adventures of Cosa and Nansha, and they put
together a system with 286 gigabytes of.
Memory with A8 TB storage, you know, and I was using the annual
engine. I was just had just gotten
introduced the annual engine and the annual engine needs a lot of
space for the projects. This system changed the way I do
animation. I speed up and it made me create
videos much faster for YouTube. Like even there's a character
that I created, he's a metahuman almost like reggae star who was
trying to find his way in the Metavis and he's trying to get
gigs. He's an old.
The guy, he's struggling because he's not getting the gigs that
he's supposed to, but he he goes out into the metaphors and says,
you know, performing a different event.
I embody him and I. Talk as a V tube as him sharing
my journey and the first video that I did.
I partnered with A real Illusion and we did the No meta Human No
Cry. That was the first video of him
in his course that like his journey out in the world.
And once like that video became successful, I was like, you know
what? Let me do a spin off of his
journey so that people can follow along.
And the Unreal Engine and Epic Games changed my trajectory
because I before I never been able to do I come back realistic
character really. Motion capture for both the body
and the face and create a character and and a personality
and it was actually invited on Papa Beach in the UK as a meta
human and I turned I showed up at the event as the meta the the
Papa Beach team invited me and they first introduced me as
Solomon Jaguay and then they say he has a meta human friend that
he would like to you know who's been invited.
So I switched the character from what they were seeing on Zoom.
To the meta human. And that was the first paid gig
for my meta humans. By humans paying him to actually
show up as a virtual character. My gosh, you mean you can
actually make money as a digital entity?
And so that changed my the way I saw V2 being in the Unreal
Engine and the meta humans, that you can create a persona that
gains value, that I can can actually start earning you
money. Absolutely brilliant.
And Solomon, aside from the the actual animating.
Itself. What are the hardest parts that
you find running a YouTube channel?
They being a YouTuber and I just stumbled into it.
So there are people who probably have more professional opinions
and who have been doing it much longer than I am more
successful, but I think. The challenge is when you have
to do things yourself, you know you have to be the crew and the
government and I see like people like Mr. Beast they're now
production companies he he just has to show up in front of the
screen. It has a whole team you know
that works with. But when you are still growing
and I still I'm even though I'm a 22,000 subscribers right now,
it's still relatively small compared to the bigger channels,
right. I don't make enough money to pay
a team. I look forward to that to a
point where you can just it's a business because it has become a
business and I think the challenge that I'm encountering
that and I didn't realize before, you have to see it as a
business. You have to have an LLC you have
because you can't. At some point you're going to
grow, right? And you're going to miss out on
opportunities for bigger companies wanting to work with
you if you're not an LLC. Like right now, I'm seeing more
traction with businesses, bigger businesses wanting to work with
me as because I'm have an LLC than when I just was an
individual. And also you don't want your
home to be at risk, you know, should something fall out.
People will take your property. So that's why it's very, very
important to see this as a business as fast as quickly as
possible and also understanding that at some point you may want
to not be the business, you know, you may have to hire other
people at some point. So I've been having to read more
in terms of business of how a business operates.
To understand how well I can, you know, posture myself so that
for growth, because once I get to, once you get to 22,000, new
opportunities open up. I remember when I I used to see
people getting like, I will see this little monetary icon on
other people's channels. And then one day it showed up on
my channel. I'm like, oh, people can
actually give me money by just clicking on that little button
and then now you can tag. Products in your videos when you
have 20,000 subscribers, I did, I'd never had access to that
before, you know. And so then new things that are
coming up where YouTube is looking at these channels that
they know they can use to get more ad money, you know.
And so it's been a challenge, but I've done better of
positioning myself so the channel can grow.
Because if I stay as an individual and as, not as, not
as an LLC, it's not going to grow.
It's just going to be a channel where companies really want to
partner with you, but they don't know how to partner with you and
you don't want to put your home at risk if you have a family.
The other challenge has been the changing landscape of YouTube
logarithms and how nothing is like it's set in stone.
It's like they're experimenting with us.
It's true, because they are also because they want to make money
too. And they're trying to figure out
a way to like, how do we help these channels get us more
money, Essentially, that's why. They're outing.
It's upside down, shaking it. That's right.
Yeah. And so, and also trying to
understand shorts, they say you're going to make money from
it, but then I see that there's a window upon once you upload
that short. A few hours that pass and then
it's put on the home and then you see shoot up and then it's
flat after that and then nothing happens after that.
You know, I'm like okay, so that I'm, I'm still getting grasp of
how do shorts work, Yeah. But for me, I see there's a big
goal out there because I want to grow the Encosa, a nature brand
and then the YouTube channel. I just want to continue using it
to inspire other people on the journey so as this company
grows. I want to continue showing
people the behind the scenes of how you can run a successful
company that creates content for YouTube, for merchandising,
partnerships and all that. I want people to truly grasp
when you have an idea how far you can take it.
How do you make toys? How do you partner with a toy
maker? How does it go from a concept to
the shelf, you know? Do you have favorite YouTube
channels or influences? Yes.
Yeah, my, my Kiss. Brownlee is one of my favorite
channels because I saw a video of him when he was a little boy.
You know, that video is so cool because it shows where he
started and he had a little voice.
He was just a boy that didn't know how to do, but he was
really ahead of his time, you know, And he I saw him reacting
to that video. So for me, that is so
heartwarming. Because I see my journey as a
YouTube as well. It's a compounding effect.
You have to create content, you have to create videos.
Because if you don't create videos, the channel is not going
to grow. YouTube doesn't know you.
They need to know you by the content that you create.
So if you just up hazard then they will don't know who to
recommend your videos to. But once you do you do something
consistently then they will understand what to expect from
you and so that they can bring people to.
It's like a marketplace if there's a store on the corner of
a market in that. Store has mangoes every market
day. When people come to the
marketplace, they know what that story is going to do.
When you are able to identify what niche you have and
something that you can do joyously, you know don't don't
do something that you don't drive joy out of, right?
I derive joy in helping other people like see what is possible
with art and animation. Because I'll wake up and draw.
No one has to prompt me, no one I can draw.
If I'm watching something, I can draw out in the world.
If I'm on a train, I I'll draw. But I'm always drawing, thinking
of how can I bring this to life. So find something that's really,
really you're passionate about. And you know that if you walk up
and no one ever paid you a penny, you would still do that,
Then you'll be successful in your channel.
So true, so true. And are there any other channels
that you watch regularly? I also like William Falcher.
He's like an Unreal Engine expert because I want to get
into Unreal Engine and do the best I can with it.
So he's one of those channels that I love watching.
Do you have to drink there? I do.
Oh, good. Yes, we have a little drink
break. Yes.
And you too, have a drink with us, please.
People will pick up on the vibes on your channel because they've
been a video where I've created a video and I was really
passionate about it. And someone has left a comment
saying I love you in uppercase. You know, if you can, like,
create that kind of reaction in a person, you know, you hit a
landmine, like a goldmine, not oh, sorry, not a landmine
because you're dying. It's a positive.
Yeah, as well. Goldmine because when you chat,
you when you create a video that changes someone's life, then
you've made a video that is really impactful.
And I think the video that I the one that has the most views on
my channel, the one way I'm sculpting people were blown away
that you could actually sculpt. On an iPad Pro, right?
Like people have had their iPads all along, but they didn't
realize you could actually sculpt.
And people are probably thinking, I need to go buy a
cintic to be able to sculpt. And they had Apple pencils all
along. So when I see the comments in
that video and how people are reacting to it, I'm like, my
gosh, I didn't know you could do that.
The fact that you can do that on an iPad is amazing.
And I could picture people in their living room somewhere
sculpting away on their iPad. So I it's almost, it created a
movement. Of artists were like, you mean
this has been sitting here all this time and I could actually
use it. So that was my proudest video.
Solomon, what tiny improvements would you make to make YouTube
better? Something that I encountered by
chance is I've always been able, I have wanted to loop a video
because sometimes I find like a music video that I want to I
love playing in the background while I'm sculpting or animating
and things like that. And YouTube has never really
like outright had a button. Of looping.
Every other player in the world I know has the ability to loop
and for some reason even now, like I you can.
I go to a channel and I look at a video and there's no loop
button. It was only recently that I was
on the app and I had to go into settings that I found it.
It actually is in there that you can look a YouTube video but
it's not on the desktop version and yet when I'm animating.
I'm on the desktop, so that's one thing that I would love for
them to make outright like expose it to the front where you
can loop a video. It's actually an opportunity for
them to get add revenue from constantly know the same video.
If it's I really like it yeah. So please add a look button.
Yeah, YouTube do that. That's a genius idea.
Maybe like a recommendation, I would like to be able to
recommend my own videos to other people.
You know, like if I see a video. There should be like a button on
a video that says recommend and in there recommend to all my
subscribers because you've noticed when they video.
When you post a video only like 10% is sent out like people who
have notification bells turned on.
But you have thousands of subscribers but only a small
small percentage of them gets like notified.
When that video is sent out. So I want to be able to contact
my subscribers, you know, like send things out to them and tell
them, hey guys, I think this is a really good video, you should
watch it. Absolutely.
That's a that's a brilliant idea.
Is there a video on your channel that you love that doesn't seem
to be guessing the love that it deserves?
Yes, there's a video that I did and I thought it was really deep
and it's it's actually not animated at all.
It's a I showed it. I went to my with my family to
the beach, on a Virginia Beach and I wrote on the ground in the
sand and the the water came. The waves were waving, you know,
coming back and forth eventually.
And I remember feeling I was feeling burnt out when we took
that trip and I wrote in the sand and the waves eventually
came and washed away all that stress and I was trying to
encourage other people that you know take a moment sometimes to.
Unwind and just Life is more than more than this is this life
outside of a computer? You need to step away, you need
to disconnect and things like that.
I thought that video was really good.
They didn't get. It's so unfair.
Definitely linked to it up up on the screen and down in the
description. OK, yeah, it's really good.
I know You Tube never suggested to you, but I am suggesting it.
I'm recommending it to you. Are there things that other
Youtubers do that you definitely won't do?
Yes, I am not the kind to do crazy stance for views, you
know? And I know that's a thing.
And I've actually talked to a friend of mine who used to do
that kind of thing and he's no longer does it because he's now
in a different space. It takes it all.
The pandemic was so revealing, you know, My goodness, it's it's
showed us that we we need each other more than anything.
You need people, but you're so your mental health is so
crucial. To your growth.
You know, you're trying to feed an audience that wants more and
more of that, but you as a human being, you're not wired that
way. It will deplete you at some
point, and I've seen multiple examples of people who are
depressed. Having been done that, but no I
really what value content that has lasting effect.
Definitely, definitely Solomon, can we have a bit of a gear geek
out because I can see in shot now, I can see a gaming chair
and I can see a really nice microphone.
What equipment do you use for your channel?
I really actually appear in my videos, right?
I don't know if you've noticed that I really appear in my
videos because I want people to focus on the content.
And then not me. And so and even down the road
that I want that content to be like timeless because we are all
gonna get older at some point. Grow hair, you lose hair and
things like that. Maybe you have a pimple every
now and then like this one right here.
I don't really shoot myself with footage, but I every now and
then I'll get like my phone. And then start to record like
whatever I'm working on, or even mount my phone on top of like a
tripod and record myself like drawing or sculping like like
the video that I did, the one that has the iPod Pro.
For the phone itself, I'm using a Samsung S22 Ultra.
It has a beautiful camera. And it does us a really good
job. But when I need to show
something here, then I should with my iPhone 10 to be able to
record my Samsung phone. So it's like I go back and forth
which depending on which one is with and this one has a lot of
space and it's still doing its job.
You know, I've not upgraded to a new iPhone yet because it does
and it took me a long time to upgrade to the 22 in terms of
gear. Again, I had to upgrade my sound
because people complained. And I go back and watch some of
my videos and I cringe because I can hear the audio like and so I
have, I've done better, you know I invested in a much better mic
And also I think I use NVIDIA Studio which has like a denoiser
and then I got I get much better audio as a result.
And of course this little guy right here makes a big
difference because every now and then if I'm too close, I don't
want popping sounds and things like that, the microphone.
And the computers is really what my content is about.
And when I need to shoot outside then I use my S 22 Ultra.
I have two computers that I use. One is the this thread Ripper
from purchase systems that I do all the animation on.
Then I'm streaming it onto this machine and this is the machine
that I I record on using OBS Studio right?
So really what it's doing is capturing this screen.
And then I'm putting the screen through a little adapter.
I pass it through OBS and then I'm able to record that whatever
I am saying on this underside. Then I have this mic connected
to this computer. So that's incredible.
So you're effectively streaming in record recording, and you
record a stream rather than stream it live.
Yes, I record the stream. So when I'm recording this
stream, I'm really recording a production of what is being done
on this particular computer. So you get way better quality
you get and you. You have the ability to change
the the transfer rate when you're streaming.
You want something less, cause on YouTube you don't want
things, you know, stuttering and things like that.
But because I know this particular video is going to end
up in Adobe Premiere. I just crank it up all the way.
I recommend. I recommend that set up because
it's technical, but I have a video that I actually recorded
that shows the whole process. It's I had to repeat myself
multiple times because it's kind of like wires like this is
connecting to this, into this, into this, and into that.
And then now you see me and and also there's a new update that
came out talk about official intelligence.
So for the longest time when I would like stream as a V tuber,
as a metahuman, I'd have trouble maintaining eye contact.
And in the Android engine, it's only recently in 5.2 that they
introduced the ability to lock the eye to something with a
NVIDIA studio they updated where they have official intelligence
in it that will take your eyeballs.
Right. They replace your eyeballs using
artificial intelligence and they make them focus on the screen.
So if you could, I could literally be looking over here.
But the AI is making it look like I am looking at you.
Like, seriously, right now I'm not using it so you didn't, you
know, freaked out. But when I'm streaming it
automatically, it takes away that hassle.
And that's the thing about AI, you know, there are some things
where it is so applicable and it's really, really, it takes
away the tedious things that you.
As a video by used to not be able to do and you will blink
and when you blink it disables the AI.
When you the moment you open then the eyes get replaced
right? So it's crazy.
That's incredible. Oh, Solomon, you seem really
prolific. On your channels, do you have a
video idea that you really want to make that you haven't made
yet? Yes, my channel.
I want to do more short films from beginning to end because
I've been learning the Unruh engine.
It wasn't until this new update from Epic Games with a metahuman
animator that's now I feel like, you know what?
The technology has finally caught up to my dream because
I've been wanting something that I don't have to struggle so much
when it comes to facial animation.
And I can. And actually truly act out the
story and it's captured, authentically captured so that
when the performance is shown on the screen and you can see one
the video 2 videos I just I just posted of the meta human
animator. The lip movement, the eyes, the
expression, you know is way, way better than we've been able to
do in the past and actually create content that matches up
to what you see in video games and even better.
It used to be that those studios were creating that kind of
quality facial animation, but now anyone can do it.
It's actually free, and it blows my mind that It's Epic Games is
still offering it as a free product, and it's coming few
months I'm going to be doing more short films.
So I can actually tell the story and also inspire other people to
show them. I took a song by an gospel
artist, I lip sync to it. I wore a motion capture suit.
I wore a head mounted camera rig I didn't even have to care about
and all I did was just record, press record and I acted out.
I did the the actual session, then uploaded it to YouTube and
one person commented and said my gosh.
I'm now inspired to pursue my faith-based animation after
seeing this and that's it right there.
It's like now people seeing what's possible and saying this
has actually helped me finally decide, you know I'm going to do
it. That that is to me the the the
goal is if I can help other people see what is possible.
And bring those ideas to life. I would I am a happy campus.
Solomon, thank you so much for sharing all these details about
your channel. Where are the best social places
to see your work? Yeah, so you can find me on
Twitter as a Solomon Jaguar. I think I go by Surreal SORA EE
El and then I'm on Instagram as Solomon Jaguar.
I'm on Facebook as the Art of Solomon Jaguar on my website is
SOW l.com. Can find me on YouTube Solomon
Jagri as well. It's really inspiring and I
can't wait to see what you do with the technology next.
Solomon, I hate doing this, but would you mind posing for a
thumbnail with me? The things we do for YouTube.
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