Troll takes advantage of real-time ray tracing.
Troll takes advantage of real-time ray tracing.
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Epic Games shows off amazing digital human technology with Troll demo

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games showed an amazing demo of Troll, built with Unreal Engine technology by the team at Goodbye Kansas, Deep Forest Films, and 3Lateral. It’s yet another stellar example of “digital human” technology.

Shown off at the State of Unreal talk at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Epic and its partners took another step forward in creating believable digital humans that look real. This scene has real-time lighting and animation effects that could be mistaken for a movie.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.