What Julius Caesar really looked like

I wanted to know what Julius Caesar really looked like. So I used Metahumans Digital Humans for Unreal Engine to test it out — and it was a lot of fun. Twitter: https://twitter.com/philedwardsinc Instagram: https://instagram.com/philedwardsinc Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philedwardsinc So, so many sources for this one about what Julius Caesar looked like. First, just check out the busts I reference. http://ancientrome.ru/art/artworken/img.htm?id=7259 Next, I’m gonna link the papers I read for this. Most are behind paywalls. There are secret ways to read these papers if you don’t want to mortgage your house to pay the fees. Let me know if you are curious. That said, I’m giving you the legit links. Paper about Caesar being sick that touches on his fitness level (IE the reason I didn’t make Fat Caesar). https://www.jstor.org/stable/24858427?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Nice bust overview: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4166364 This is one of the machine learning guys — he actually didn’t do Julius. I think it’s a cool project, but the phrase “machine learning” papers over the fact that it’s basically colorizing guesstimates. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s more than just a little fun (I’d say it’s even less scrupulous than this video). Nevertheless, great guy I’m sure, etc ad inf. https://twitter.com/dvoshart/status/1296664858411270144 One of the best coins: http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-065-791-C Another beaut: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/162037/denarius-with-head-of-c-julius-caesar-struck-under-m-mett;jsessionid=4E03C569C668EB6506CD9FF23250E237?ctx=ee4727df-13bf-4791-9546-9379984bdad7&idx=8 Overview of portraits of Caesar that helped me kinda smell check the idea that we don’t have a ton to go on. Also includes a lot of the Suetonius translation/interpretation I draw on. https://www.jstor.org/stable/641005 Good popular article about Caesar’s faces: https://medium.com/@annesophiehe/the-many-faces-of-julius-caesar-1c567957f3b1 The new Caesar (yikes): https://popular-archaeology.com/article/a-new-look-at-julius-caesar/ Another Caesar appearance overview: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3288326?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents This professor does crazy weird biometric analysis of Caesar based on the busts. Too much of a can of worms for this video, but fun to dig into her work: https://zenodo.org/record/1405085#.YNfW6RNKjAw