Virtual “K-Pop Idol” Resurfaces For Resembling Everyone And No One At The Same Time
In 2022, art director Jang Seong Hwan shared “JiU,” a virtual human designed to fit “the concept of one of the beautiful girl group’s members.”
Jang showed the virtual human in still photos and videos, all uploaded under his ArtStation account.
This girl has been redesigned as a personal project character in consideration of K-POP IDOL Virtual Human. I produced her with the concept of one of the beautiful girl group’s member that can be loved by the public rather than a completely realistic face. For facial animation, Epic’s Metahuman base mesh was used on a newly created face with Zwrap, and everything else was newly produced. The current image was rendered in Marmoset Toolbag 4 with Real-Time Rendering. Her body is also modeled to control in real time and now I’m trying to see her whole figure to move in Unreal Engine soon.
— Jang Seong Hwan
Fast forward to 2024, the work has resurfaced with a viral post on theqoo…
…with K-Pop fans pointing out all the lookalikes as the virtual human’s “model.”
- “She looks like Shin Hyun Bin.”
- “Terrifying.”
- “I see a bit of IVE‘s Leeseo.”
- “She looks like Leeseo.”
- “I don’t see any resemblances. She’s pretty, though.”
- “Her smile is a little scary.”
- “I don’t see any female idols, but I do see a bit of Lee Ji Ah and Chae Jung An.”
- “She’s pretty, but I can’t quite put my finger on who she looks like.”
- “Scares me.”
- “Why do I see Kazuha, though?”
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- “I see both IVE’s Leeseo and ILLIT‘s Yunah.”
The list of resemblances is huge and goes on to include half the entertainment business, though Jang himself did comment that no one in particular was used as a model.
At the same time, some believe the virtual human doesn’t look like anyone—thus making it a successful creation.
- “Possibly a STAYC member…”
- “She reminds me of Cha Ye Ryun and a bit of Lee Ji Ah.”
- “Looks like Park Ji Hyun to me.”
- “It’s Shin Hyun Bin.”
- “Her smile grosses me out.”
- “Wow, she’s gorgeous. But I don’t think she looks like any female idols.”
- “She kind of looks like CLC (Kep1er)’s Yujin when she’s smiling.”
- “She reminds me of Lee Ji Ah in her early debut era. Haha.”
- “Before seeing her smile, I thought she was a compilation of all five NewJeans members. But when she’s smiling, I think she looks like an actress.”
- “Am I the only one who sees BLACKPINK‘s Jisoo, but with a longer face?”
- “Wow… From the skin texture to veins and even the slight unbalance in the structure… This looks natural AF. She looks very human, minus the soullessness.”
- “Give her some more hair.”
- “I also see a bit of OH MY GIRL‘s Arin. How pretty!”
What do you think? Does this virtual human ring any bells?
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