: Search for "Real-Time Neural Morph Targets" for the absolute bleeding edge of the tech.
Yes, but the application is changing. While handle large-scale body movements, morph targets remain the gold standard for nuanced facial expressions and clothing physics. Pros of the "New" Morph Workflow:
Skeletal skinning rotates and translates vertices around joints, which creates "candy-wrapper" deformation at elbows and knees. Modern systems combine skinning with that trigger based on joint angle. Unreal Engine 5.3's Deformer Graph allows artists to chain a dozen corrective morphs per joint, activating them smoothly as the arm bends from 0 to 120 degrees. The result: biceps that bulge and triceps that flatten—just like anatomy.
