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Character Creator 4 (CC4) is a full character creation solution for designers to easily generate, import and customize stylized or realistic character assets for use with iClone, Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, or any other 3D tools. CC4 connects industry leading pipelines with one system for 3D character generation, animation rig, asset management, look-dev rendering, and interactive design.

As an universal character system, CC4 allows any rigged character to be imported and customized from the morph to the bone level. CC4 not just assures artists that anything can be your characters, but also provides a holistic design toolkit that lets your characters shine with their accentuated personalities from top to toe – one topology, unlimited shapes and stories. Best of all, all the characters are animation-ready in CC4 where you can best present them with animation rendering or with turntable display.

Besides showcasing full-motion characters, CC4 empowers artists to transform static props into animation-friendly objects.

Here are the new feature highlights of Character Creator 4:

• Enliven Any Character Rig - now you can import any rigged biped models to CC4, either it’s CC Avatar, humanoids, creatures or props >> Know more

• Auto Import Characters from Known Standards - support characters and motions directly imported from Mixamo, DAZ, Maya HIK, Max biped, and Blender meta rig >> Know more

• Work with Major 3D Pipelines - accelerate industry-standard workflow >> Know more

• Showcase Full-Motion Characters - playback all Reallusion facial and body motion types with Animation Player, Turntable Display, and Animation Render >> Know more

• Create Expression Morphs - customizable to edit morphs and bones for unique facial expressions and lip-sync animations >> Know more

• Prop Editing - turn static meshes to animation-friendly objects, or make props real-time friendly with polygon reduction >> Know more

• Free Resource and Smart Content Management - directly download free resources and seamless access to 2,000+ assets from Smart Content Manager >> Know more

Enliven Any Character Rig 

Once characterized in CC4, motion resources will import and share among characters such as voice lip-sync and mocap data. All characters are ready for FBX, USD or game engine export.

• Characterize rigged humanoid/creature by mapping bones

• Flexible bone adjustment including T-Pose correction, 3 types of bones.

• Custom facial rigs, spring rigs 

• Compatible with iPhone Facial Mocap

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Auto Import Characters with Industry Standards 

Character Creator 4 can auto detect the imported character type when dragging in an FBX file, thus immediately seeing them in action without spending time on skeletal mappings or T-pose adjustments. Supported character types include :

• MayaHumanIK

• 3ds MaxBiped

• BlenderMeta-rig

• Mixamocharacters and motions

• Daz3DG3/G4/G8 characters and motions

Work with Major 3D Pipelines 

CC4 provides free addons to rev up the design workflow with leading industry tools from sculpting, 3D modelling, texturing to game engines. In other words, your characters can be applied to various industries from day one, ranging from film, interactive design, digital fashion to AEC industries. Free addons includes:

• GoZ for ZBrush

• CC Tools for Blender - Auto retargeting from CC/ iClone/ ActorCore animations to Rigified CC Character.

• AutoSetup for Unreal Engine and Unity Mecanim - Supporting shader and bone structure.

• UDIM compatible with Substance Painter and Marvelous Designer - Any rigged character made in CC4.

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Showcase Full-Motion Characters 

• With the Animation Player, designers can see their characters live with natural facial and body movement, and be able to nicely present with the 360 turntable.

• Access to Calibration - Preview animations and see how each of the character joints works, it helps in reviewing and fixing skin weight for body, cloth, and hair. 

• Pose Editing-You can create a custom facial and body pose through capturing a selected pose from an animation file. Render it as a high-res media, or export it as OBJ

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Create Expression Morphs 

How an actor emotes and speaks defines their unique disposition and performance style, enabling consistency to form, for realistic humans or stylized figures.

• Generate Expressions

• Standard |  60+ morphs: compatible with most facial mocap

• Extended | 140+ morphs: suitable for hyper-realistic digital human creation

• Flexible Upgrade and Downgrade with one-click

• Create Custom Personalities

• Morph Sliders

• 300+ expression morphs

• GoZ/OBJ

• FBX Batch

• Custom Talking Lip Shapes

• 8 Lip shapes + 7 Tongue shapes

• 1:1 Visemes to Lip Shapes 

• Facial Puppet & Mocap

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Prop Editing 

CC4 makes your 3D props ready for real-time animation, see the featured functions below: 

• Asset Import

• Create 3D Prop

• Prop Data Type - static mesh, node hierarchies, bone rigs 

• Flexible Prop Editing

• Prop Editing

• Extract Selected Mesh and Convert Sub-Item/Prop

• Manage and Edit Node Hierarchy

• Attach & Detach

• Edit Mesh & Skin Weight

• Edit Spring Rigs

• Adjust Material

• Prop Export  

• OBJ, FBX, USD and iClone compatible format.

• Polygon Reduction

• 3 Reduction Options

• Retain High Visual Quality

• Works with Rigged Props

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Free Resource and Smart Content Management 

Made by top designers, artists can enjoy the consistent drag-and-drop experience to build new designs with CC4’s Asset Library. Not only are there thousands of characters, morphs, skin, outfit, shoes, hair, accessories, and motions at your selection; but you can also profit from Marketplace/Content Store by joining the community through the one-click uploading system in CC4.

• Participate in the marketplace designer community and profit from your creativity.

• With one-click, the free design resources and the purchased assets will both be installed in Smart Content Manager whose tag system allows you to easily search and find desired items in the packs.  

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Embedded Content

Experience Character Creator’s powerful features by testing out over 2,000 embedded assets that are free to use in CC4. An extensive library of highly valuable CC4 projects, characters, outfits, hair, animations, morphs, light presets, etc. are ready for your download.

Featured 3D characters 

• Realistic Human

• Humanoid Characters

• Lightweight Characters for Crowd Animation

• actorBUILD 

• actorSCAN 

Significant Visual Upgrade with Lighting Presets

• Atmosphere and Lightroom: 100+ presets

• Lens Flare:10+preset and 30+elements

Character Display

• Turntable feature enables artists to review character art in real-time or render it as video to share.

Enliven Characters with Motion & Expression

• Preview Animations: 40+ Preview Motions

• Expression Morph Sliders: 300+ expression morphs categorized by facial feature, customizable by directly using modelling sliders.  

Comprehensive Styling & Makeup

• Hair, Outfit and Accessories

• 10+ Hair

• 80+ Clothes

• 10+ Accessories

• Comprehensive Skin & Makeup

• 90+ Skin Presets

• 70+ Makeup Presets

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Software & Plugin Updates

• Headshot plugin for Character Creator 4 Full v1.0

• Headshot plugin for Character Creator 4 Trial v1.0

• SkinGen plugin for Character Creator 4 Full v1.0

• UE5 Unreal Live Link and AutoSetup - please get the update from Here

Guide and Manual

• Manual

• Character Creator 4 https://manual.reallusion.com/Character-Creator-4/Content/ENU/4.0/01_Welcome/Welcome.htm 

• Smart Content Manager https://manual.reallusion.com/content-manager/2.0/00-welcome/welcome.htm

• Tutorial https://courses.reallusion.com/home/character-creator