This production demo was a collaboration between Real Studios and iBible Films — a focused test of the MetaHuman Animator workflow inside Unreal Engine 5.6.
Xavier Alleyne built the environment and handled all camera work for the demo at the direction of Andrew Librizzi. The scene captures the moment God tells Samuel to go to Bethlehem — sending him to Jesse with a cover of sacrifice, promising to reveal the next king of Israel among his sons.
The project also served as an R&D exercise into Unreal Engine VFX implementations — specifically VDB volumetrics and Niagara particle systems — alongside stress-testing the end-to-end MetaHuman Creator and MetaHuman Animator pipeline for character fidelity, facial animation, motion capture, and seamless Unreal Engine integration.
"Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."1 Samuel 16:1 — ESV