overall I'm really happy with the iC6 avatars.
They are realistic enough without being photorealistic. I don't want photorealistic, otherwise everything else in the scene has to be photorealistic or it looks mismatched.
The iC6 avatars have lots of detail and very customisable.
I love Character Creator, it really is amazing how many body and facial features you can manipulate to get it spot on.
Biggest let down for me on avatars is the facial animation, more specifically the mouth.


Here's my couple of wishes for RL
1. The lip movement, particularly 'W' type movements look all wrong - mouth goes all puckered and heart shaped, looks weird. Even with animation strength reduced, it looks....wrong.
And the smile is terrible. I avoid making my avatars smile because it looks scary, kind of like Sheldon from Big Bang trying to smile.... Still remind me of the old Sims avatars. Daz characters seem to have fairly good mouth/lip animation in comparison, so surely it's possible. Even if there was some way users could manipulate the individual animation points on the mouth to create and save a smile.

2. Character Creator - small request. Can we have individual control of left and right eyebrow heights please ? Seems to be separate controls for left & right on many other facial features, but not eyebrow height. Important feature for fine tuning a face! Not everyone's eyebrows are symmetrical!

3. Spring effect on female avatars!
I love the idea of spring effect, yeah not just boobs :)  but when enabled, the body seems to move with so much more realism/relaxed ie hips, abdomen etc. Takes the rigidity out of the avatars movement.
Yes BIG boobs it works well!  But my avatar is petite and she doesn't have a set of double D's!! She's got modest B-cups and little boobs don't work well with spring effect. As soon as I turn spring effect on, her breasts instantly turn from pert to saggy and deflated, even when standing still... And B-cups 'jiggle', not bounce like water balloons, which is not possible, even at the lowest settings there is far too much going on there lol :) So I've had to disable it. I'm not devastated that the breasts are no longer moving (I don't want them moving much anyway), but as said I like the other effects that the spring effect has on other parts of the body, which I can't use if spring effect is turned off.

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RL Please pay attention to this wonderful work and add this amazing puppet tool to iclone

My YouTube channel.

Well, Indigo is really only a minor part of the iClone 6 upgrade. We have to keep things in perspective. There are many worthwhile additions in this release besides Indigo.

Also, we all have different wants with regard to what would give more value to iClone. I don't think that anyone can state that his/her suggestions are the ticket.

For example, I just want a mirror and a curve editor... That's only been asked for since 2010 or 2011... Four years or so?

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Well, as a Tutor your opinion must pack far more punch than mine, so I'm cheering for you.

Count me as part of your cheer squad :D


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Passionately requested for this feature in great details 18 months back. Terrific for Toon work.

This would have given ICLONE a greater value addition and WOW factor than INDIGO Plugin !

RL needs to look inward and enhance ICLONE's core value.

Ooo! ooo!!

I really wish we could have a small set of deformer dummies that work on any prop or avatar - so we could unroll/untwist/swell/grow/distort/bulge almost anything in a toonish or slick intro-manner...

.e.g. I'd love to have iavatars and props that could:
* shrink/swell/stretch/bulge as they squeeze through keyholes or other tight spaces...
* unroll/roll up or fold any character or prop, as if they were paper
* twist/untwist any character or prop, as if it was a candy-cane...

these sound like they may have only a limited use, but the truth is quite the opposite... e.g. take a look at this one very short video to see how Cinema4D can do so much with only *one* of its deformers..... So creative!

And if you freeze it at 10 seconds, you'll catch a glimpse of some other really cool deformers, e.g.:
* a bomb deformer to explode anything
* a polygon reduction deformer to speed up projects without having to export each item to other deformer software first.... oh, and it can also be used to turn almost any object or character into a toon by lowering the poly count, and then just swapping the diffuse texture for a single colour (or swapping it for a toon diffuse material from the set of toon textures that are already available in the reallusion store.)

And if we had a really simple spline tool with an option to extrude, then we could combine the set of tools to create almost anything - including really intricate, precision work, like this vid I made quite recently: iClone is already *SO* close to being able to do this already! :D




And I know it's been mentioned before by others far more experienced than me, but I'd like to agree that we need a Font-Text Creator plug-in so we can type any 3D text word/phrase/sentence directly into iClone and create any 3D model font *either* as a prop, or as an image layer...

And yes, I know we can already do the image layers using a png made in photoshop and control-dragged into iclone so it *looks* like it may be a 3D prop/billboard, but a plug-in that could do both in the same little popup box would make it soooo much easier, faster and more flexible.... especially if the custom 3D words/sentences are compatible with the Motion Montage Packs, and could enhance their usability amazingly, because each motion montage box can be a parent to more than one word or punctuation mark.

Crikey, with this one small box of tools, it's hard to imagine how anybody could ever need any other animation software, ever again!

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Anita, aka "Bleetz" the Toon Wrangler @ Tarampa Studios
SYS: Win 8.1,  64-bit, i7-4770 CPU @3.4GHz,  
32GB RAM, Intel(R)Graphics 4600 & nVIDIA GTX1060 TI 

While I understand I can create my own scenes, there are several I would like to have as standards that I and others could use:

1. Courtrooms of various designs
2. Jury rooms, trial and grand, various designs
3. Assembly hall, many attendees, most of whom only move a little
4. Police interrogation room
5. Classroom, auditorium, various designs

My application is training legal professionals and citizens in law. One thing I would like to do is simulate the delegates to the 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, so I need 1787 suits on them.

This would be in support of our site at constitution.org

@hattori kun: The best place for feature requests is to start a new topic here: https://forum.reallusion.com/Forum388-1.aspx

This section is for Wishful Content, i.e., new content that you would like.

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Btw I absolutely like the new sleek design compared to Iclone 5.
Some minor suggestions if this is the right venue for IClone 6 requests. The UX designer in me is brainstorming some tweaks. I think these two settings can be consolidated into Visual tab. Logically the render tab is related to visuals/image as well as the camera settings. It is that way in other 3d appz.
Secondly I think the camera settings is also not so easy to access visually in some cases when the scene is full I cant find an empty space to click to bring up the camera settings. So putting an icon there would help a lot.