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Welcome
iClone 8 (iC8) is designed to give life to characters no matter for storytelling, education, or simulation; we aim to make iClone the most powerful and intuitive tool that will bring users to the world of 3D animation. iClone will be simple to employ yet still be professional enough for most high-level animator requirements that typically rely on Maya or MotionBuilder.
In this largest ever iClone 8 release, we highlight some most important advancements: - Professional Motion Control - Innovating motion creation and editing with capabilities like Reach Target Interaction, Optimal HIK Control and Pro-level Curve Editing >> Know more
- Scalable Facial Expression Systems - Direct your 3D actors' facial performances with the highest productivity utilizing the Facial Expression. >> Know more
- Motion Director - Use game-play controls to drive characters, apply motion triggers and dynamic cameras to direct scenes in real-time. >> Know more
- Custom Hotkeys and Device LIVE - Use custom hotkeys on assigning devices to interact as physical interfaces for ultimate scene controls. >> Know more
- Enhanced Real-time Visuals - new visuals include Volumetric Lighting, Motion Blur, Reflective Shader, Auto Exposure, and Lens Flare to simulate how real world objects interact through human eyes and camera lenses. >> Know more
- Productivity and Performance Enhancements - Performance enhancement and enhanced productivity in iClone 8 empowers users with real-time editing when working with large scenes containing many items. >> Know more
- Free Content Resources and Smart Content Management - use pre-made resources or purchased assets under a shared content folder, without leaving iClone or Character Creator. >> Know more
Body Motion Control
 iClone provides powerful animation capabilities while keeping the process simple and intuitive.These new iClone 8 features will help pro-level studios, and indie developers maximize their productivity. Not only are these time-saving features essential to producing high-quality 3D character animations, but they are guaranteed to greatly reduce the cost of your production.
- Motion Editing Innovations - work with a reference MPEG4 video to make precise alignments through a powerful mashup system that can help you mix and match poses.
- Optimal HIK Control - use advanced HumanIK control to deeply delve into detailed performances, along with the End Effector and Handkey Motion tools for absolute pinning precision.
- Pro-level Curve Editing - Fix issues such as foot sliding, or walking mocap corrections. You can even apply motion curves to enhance mocaps into stylized and cartoon-like performances.
- Reach Target Interaction- this will make it simpler to target and position interactions with props, while allowing self and mutual interactions via referenced footstep and handprint features.
Do you wish to learn more about the Motion Control features? Here are some links you can check.
- Face Puppeteering - Easily start with 11 functional puppet profiles and selectively layer (create, blend or overwrite) puppet features to complete a full facial animation
- Face Key Editing - Fine-tune feature details when creating facial expressions through lip syncing, facial mocap or puppeteering through functions like morph slider, expression presets and muscle panel
- Character-centric Timeline- Easily upgrade or downgrade from 60 to 140 blend shapes in their actors’ expression details when a certain level of export is required with Character Creator’s scalable expression system
- Pro-level Curve Editing - Exercise full control over time and space adjustments in your animations, create smooth and cinematic cameras, perform arc rotation for cartoon animation, and achieve the perfect ease-in and out behavior
Want to find out more about Facial Expressions features? Here are some links you can check.
Tutorials
Motion Director Game-like control over your animations are no longer a dream, thanks to iClone’s Play-to-Animate feature. Already included in iClone 8, this feature enables you to smoothly pilot your 3D characters with game controllers such as xBox or PS and apply custom hotkey motion triggers and dynamic cameras to direct scenes in real-time. Either mouse click waypoints to direct movements or leave it to our AI, which controls autonomous behaviors for you.
- Game-like Actors Control - Characters driven by Motion Director can be controlled with the mouse, keyboard hotkeys, or gamepads.
- NPC AI Animation - designate a motion path or zone for your characters to move or make your characters to automatically follow a character or a prop.
- Macro Recorder - With this feature characters that are activated will have their control sequence recorded and Macro Replay strings together several history macro segments no matter where you place your actor.
- Camera Switch - Control the motions with one hand and switch the Full Shot, Close-Up and Birds Eye camera views with the other hand by simply assigning hotkeys for each camera during runtime
- Behavior Expansion - Motion Director is designed to let users freely expanding AI controllable behaviors with the following structure in mind
Want to find out more about Motion Director features? Here are some links you can check.
Device Live Intuitively engage directing and editing with Live Switching, Trigger Effects, Slider fader, Jog Dial timeline scrubbing, Drone camera navigation, and so much more. Almost all functions in iClone can map to custom hotkeys for assigning devices (including Windows compatible devices) that interact as physical interfaces for ultimate scene control.
- Camera Switch & Navigation- Enables you to navigate 3D scenes with steady camera control and record the camera movement path to a chosen camera track, switch cameras & dorecording and lens adjustment
- Motion & Timeline Editing - Pan, zoom, and fast scroll through timeline when seeking frames with custom hotkey triggers - set key, break, loop, speed, etc.
- 3D Object Transformation - Fast and intuitive editing along with objects transformation: Move, Rotate, Scale selected 3D objects, and optional Lock horizon
- Lighting & Perform Triggers - switching up to 10 different lights, simulating dimmer effects and additional spotlight controls for light switching and fading.
Want to find out more about Device Live features? Here are some links you can check.
Real-time Visuals
 iClone is dedicated to strengthening the real-time visual quality of rendering. Utilizing PBR (Physically-based Rendering) dynamic material content and VXGI Global Illumination that turns normal 3D scenes into photo-realistic worlds through Image-based Lighting. iClone 8 provides Lens Flares, Mirror Plane Shader and Motion Blur to simulate the look of how the real world is processed through human eyes and camera lenses.
- Lens Flares- a type of lens artifact that occurs when light reflects off the surfaces inside the camera producing the effect that immediately gives iClone rendering an optical and cinematic footage feeling.
- Mirror Plane - Simulates realistic reflective surfaces that can be applied to mirrors, televisions, floors or windows that you can define the mirror shape by Opacity texture, and adjust the strength and clarity of the mirror reflection with Material Settings.
- Digital Human Shader - Enables you to create believably true-to-life digital humans and quickly change skin color by adjusting the color of blend maps.
- Motion Blur - The best solution for streaking or blurring objects in motion to simulate speed, and it’s a must-effect to make believable video compositing.
Want to find out more about Real-time Visuals features? Here are some links you can check.
Tutorials
Productivity and Performance Enhancements Significant performance enhancement and enhanced productivity in iClone 8 empowers users with real-time editing when working with large scenes containing many items.
- Modular Scene Management - Enable users to condense, classify and filter collections in a productive way.
- Fast Scene Editing - Allows users to merge projects, transform, duplicate and filter Collection.
- Peak Production Performance - iClone performance upgraded with a doubled rendering speed and optimal frame rates
Tutorials
Free Content Resources and Smart Content Management
 Bringing an intuitive and streamlined content experience when managing personal and purchased assets, The Smart Content Manager enables users to directly download online Free Resource or purchased assets without leaving iClone and Character Creator, quickly search installed and custom created content by keywords and tags, or organize assets in different drives without worrying about storage limits.
- Content Resources - An extensive library of highly valuable CC4 projects, characters, outfits, hair, animations, morphs, light presets, etc. are ready for your download
- Content Management-Shared folder between iClone and Character Creator, consolidating content and avoiding duplicated download and waste of storage space that also enables users to search installed and custom created content by keywords and tags and easily organize assets.
Tutorials
Get the best out of iClone 8 by using its capabilities to the fullest.
We have a plethora of breathtaking features along with free content resources for you to explore. iClone 8 offers you endless possibilities with its cutting edge performance and capabilities to help you realize your creative demands to generate commercial-quality content.
Want to know more on how to operate iClone 8? Then we got you! See the below links for tutorials, FAQs and Content Resources that our experts have created for you.
Tutorials (we are developing more, use these resources to begin exploring IC8)
Try out all the brand new features with the free resources already available under Free Resource section in iClone 8! For detailed information, check Free Content Resources .
Leveraging each and every unique feature in your creative journey will be richly supported. If you are looking for quick bites of information to start with, then head on over to the Overview of iClone8 New Feature post we shared earlier, that you might have missed.
iClone New Features IntroductionShow the 3D animation world what you can give life to: Showcase YourselfNo matter if you work on producing professional animations for films, previz, animations, video games, content development, education, or art; here you can share your work in our Showcase Yourself section. Inspire and get inspired by the community’s creativity and get your work featured by us!
Showcase YourselfWe value your feedback.
We listen, consider and improve! With every user feedback, we strengthen the core values of character animation through the latest in innovative technological updates.
Our community and their user experience with iClone is important to us. Here under our Feedback Tracker, you can share with us your feature needs and wishes so that we can further help grow the capabilities of your favorite iClone tool! Wishful Features
Please post your product ideas and Wishful Featuresin this section, or post in the Feedback Tracker through status tracking and user voting.Technical IssuesHaving technical issues to resolve? Then submit your technical issues or product questions under the below thread, so that our team can constantly check and respond! If there is any bug or improvement to make, then kindly post in the Feedback Tracker so that we can ensure fair consideration.
Technical Issues
Peter
Forum Administrator www.reallusion.com
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