{"id":14588,"date":"2021-04-15T07:11:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14588"},"modified":"2021-04-15T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:11:12","slug":"of-3d-pets-molten-pups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/15\/of-3d-pets-molten-pups\/","title":{"rendered":"Of 3D Pets &#038; Molten Pups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Epic team behind the hyper-realistic, Web-hosted MetaHuman Creator\u2014which is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/4\/14\/22382757\/epic-games-unreal-engine-metahuman-creator-early-access\">available for early access<\/a>\u2014rolled out the tongue-in-cheek &#8220;MetaPet Creator&#8221; for April Fool&#8217;s. Artist Jelena Jovanovic offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artstation.com\/artwork\/Qr6eyl\">a peek behind the scenes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Sneak Peek at MetaPet Creator | Unreal Engine\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yz5P37s5Qyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere I put my pal Seamus (who&#8217;s presently sawing logs on the couch next to me) through NVIDIA&#8217;s somewhat wacky <a href=\"http:\/\/nvidia-research-mingyuliu.com\/ganimal\/\">GANimal prototype app<\/a>, attempting to mutate him into various breeds\u2014with semi-Brundlefly results. &#x1f440;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"950\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-3-1024x950.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-3-1024x950.png 1024w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-3-300x278.png 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-3-768x712.png 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/image-3.png 1159w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epic team behind the hyper-realistic, Web-hosted MetaHuman Creator\u2014which is now available for early access\u2014rolled out the tongue-in-cheek &#8220;MetaPet Creator&#8221; for April Fool&#8217;s. Artist Jelena Jovanovic offers a peek behind the scenes. Elsewhere I put my pal Seamus (who&#8217;s presently sawing logs on the couch next to me) through NVIDIA&#8217;s somewhat wacky GANimal prototype app, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14605,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14588\/revisions\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}