IClone won’t always know which phonemes are the best to apply when it does its automatic pass, which means you gotta get in there and clean some of that up manually, replacing incorrect or badly placed phonemes as you see them. If you don’t use motion capture, the first area of (facial) animation you should be working on is the lip sync. This is the least sexy bit, which explains why so many people avoid it, but for now there really isn’t any way to get around it. If you’d like to render this video in Unreal Engine make sure you check out the bonus tip at the end, which shows you how to use the Live Link plugin.

Follow along in the video below, or read on for a written version. We’ll take a look at some of the tools and techniques that you can use in iClone to help you not only get your animations looking good, but do so relatively quickly. There are few things more off-putting than a 3D character model that looks realistic, only to become awkward and unnatural when it comes to open its mouth.įor that reason, this article will focus on facial animation.

With more realistic looking characters comes the need for more convincing animation. It also brought with it Headshot, an AI-based generator that enables users to create character heads from photos of real people. The recent 7.7 update saw the introduction of the Digital Human Shader, which added sub surface scattering, as well as improving the materials on offer, to give skin, teeth, eyes, and hair a much more realistic appearance. Like the game engines that gave rise to Machinima, iClone has always focused on being real-time, making it less complex than the more conventional animation tools. IClone is a powerful real-time animation tool that aims to remove the painful and repetitive aspects from the animation process, and simplify the difficult job of creating realistic digital humans.

Iclone 7 facial motion capture