Peter, does Reallusion consider iC8 and CC4 capable of most things needed for major studio animations?
Honestly I would say..no
the restrictive content licensing makes distribution of native format assets to remote members of your team problematic, to put it charitably.
No Character ragdoll physics
No internal Fluid dynamics system.
only a sprite type particle system ,not true 3D particles
or true volumetric smoke not suitable for feature films IMHO.
Popcorn effects not supported in external render engine
such as omniverse,Iray
Still not optimized for large crowds or even vast cities/landscapes.
Still not seeing any new announcements or animated samples of non Biped Critters running about like Dogs,Cats etc, in Iclone 8.
Iclone is a great option for independent users who can afford
to buy all of the plugins you need to be really productive.
But frankly
I see very little evidence that major animation studio would use
Applications like Iclone,Daz studio,poser for a variety
of production and asset related reasons.