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By Eric C (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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Hi everyone,
The iClone (IC) Lip Sync Animation Contest is here! It has been 5 years since we have an animation contest, and now it's time to put all your animation skills into challenge! With the iClone 7.9 grand update in Lip Sync, Facial Animation and Facial Mocap, animators can generate expressive facial animations in minutes! Besides our own software update, we are also introducing pipeline tools for Blender, MetaHuman and Replica that can guarantee speedy production for many talented 3D artists.
The contest is sponsored by multiple industrial leaders, and we are looking forward to your outstanding submission. Welcome all animators to submit us your 30 seconds talking animation, and big rewards await artists that successfully master iClone and incorporate it to their project workflow.
Submission Types
- Anything with 30 seconds of lip sync/ talking animation
Awards & PrizesCategory Prizes: Character Animation & Character Design- 1st Prize - $3,000 USD (per category)
- 2nd Prize - $1,500 USD (per category)
- 3rd Prize - $500 USD (per category)
Special Prizes - Animation made with Blender, MetaHuman, Replica Studios Voice
- Other special prizes include Movie Remake, Music Video Remake, Costume, Digital Double, Student Artwork, Honorable Mention
Sponsors- Replica Studios
- Epic Games
- Nvidia
- Marvelous Designer
- FXhome
- Boris FX
- Pixologic_Zbrush
- Noitom
- Rokoko
- Razer
Qualifications
- Must use iClone AccuLips as the main animation software (get it here)
- Users are encouraged and will be awarded to create and maintain Work in Progress (WIP) during production on ArtStation, RL Lip Sync Contest Forum or other social media platform. We'll select and display prominent examples during the contest.
- Submissions
- Entrants may submit up to 3 entries.
For more information, please visit: https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/event/2021-lip-sync-animation-contest/default.html
Enjoy the disruptive pipeline, showcase yourself, and win the big awards before Sep 30th, 2021!
Reallusion Team
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By animatom - 4 Years Ago
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Great! (I do think 30 sec is too short - 1 min would be better, but OK...)
BTW, I think that "Exclusive Test Samples" link for download doesn't work.
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By toystorylab - 4 Years Ago
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Cool...
As Animatom said, download "Exclusive Test Samples" does not work correct.
Downloaded file (.zip 56 MB instead of .zip 1,5 GB) only contains this:
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By Eric C (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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Hi @animatom & @toystorylab,
Thanks for reporting!
Yes we noticed that and we are repackaging the file now.
Should be finished and released today!
Thanks!
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By Iaa Doas - 4 Years Ago
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Hi,
How do I install the samples?
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By gery.hristova - 4 Years Ago
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Hi there! I have two questions:
1. Does the character need to be original? Or can we recreate a character from an existing source? E.g.- Can we take a character from a 2D animation and transform them into 3D?
2. Can we use the original dialogue (from the 2D animation) and recreate the scene in 3D? And by recreating, I don't mean copying frame by frame.
Please, let me know if this will be an issue. I used to work as a 2D animator, my wish is not to compare the two, but more like play with the freedom 3D softwares allow. But if this sounds unfair for the contest, I will understand.
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By Peter (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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ljswype (7/6/2021)
Hi,
How do I install the samples?
Hi...
You can manually copy the contents into your Character Creator 3 Template folder if you are familiar with the Template folder structure. Alternatively, just unzip the sample file and drag and drop the content onto your character in CC3. You can then optionally save it to your CC3 library from there if you wish.
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By Iaa Doas - 4 Years Ago
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Thank you very much!
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By animatom - 4 Years Ago
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This will sound like a stupid question, but I am not sure anymore - is 30-sec minimum or a maximum length?
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By charly Rama - 4 Years Ago
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Hi, it's a maximum lengh
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By AtelierFilmz - 4 Years Ago
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Entrants may submit up to 3 entries for award consideration ???? .....meaning ????......And how to submit 3 entries???
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By sshoro.art - 4 Years Ago
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This is an exciting contest! Seconding gery.hristova's question about using existing characters. I was thinking about using an existing 2D animation character, but creating my own 3D model of them. I wanted to know 1.) if that is allowed and 2.) how pre-existing character designs would be considered for the "Character Design" area of judging.
Another question since lip sync is an important part of this... we can use voice clips in languages other than English?
Thank you for any response!
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By bennydee - 4 Years Ago
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2021 iClone Lip-Sync Animation Contest WORK IN PROGRESS JAY Z (ROC BOYS )https://youtu.be/DanS8epzPrU
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By nikofilm - 4 Years Ago
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Great competition! I want to make a music video for a famous song. What about audio licenses?
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By siyam - 4 Years Ago
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wow
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By animagic - 4 Years Ago
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This has been asked before but I didn't see an answer:
Is the required 3-second logo at the end part of the maximum allowed length (making the actual video only 27 seconds) OR is it in addition to the 30 seconds maximum of the actual video?
I hope it is in addition, because 30 seconds is already quite short to do something in.
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By wires - 4 Years Ago
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animagic (7/10/2021)
This has been asked before but I didn't see an answer:
Is the required 3-second logo at the end part of the maximum allowed length (making the actual video only 27 seconds) OR is it in addition to the 30 seconds maximum of the actual video?
I hope it is in addition, because 30 seconds is already quite short to do something in.
Job,
In the first post of this thread is states:
Submission Types
- Anything with 30 seconds of lip sync/ talking animation
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By Eric C (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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suryavanshiyash3545 (7/8/2021)
Entrants may submit up to 3 entries for award consideration ???? .....meaning ????......And how to submit 3 entries???
Hi @suryavanshiyash3545,
Apology for the misunderstanding and thanks for pointing this out. I revised the wording and it should be as follow:
Entrants may submit up to 3 entries.
The only restriction should be: each person can have up to 3 entries for the contest. So choose wisely for your entry. Hope that clarifies, and any video entry should have equal chances to win our awards!
Thank you.
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By charly Rama - 4 Years Ago
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Yes, and the 30 s obligation is the lengh of the animation sequence, without intro and ending texts , right ?
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By Eric C (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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charly Rama (7/14/2021)
Yes, and the 30 s obligation is the lengh of the animation sequence, without intro and ending texts , right ?
Hi @Charly Rama,
Yes we will judge by the 30 seconds animation, and the opening and closing cuts will not count.
(But please keep it short and clean, that will really help when we are on judging stage. Thank you!)
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By michaelrbarton - 4 Years Ago
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I have 2 questions.
1) Is the video entry title, for the Youtube title , or does that have to be at the beginning of the original entry video itself?
2) Does the iClone Contest Logo at the end have to be a full screen shot, or can it be in the right or left hand corner from 25% -50% of 1920 x 1080? 
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By michaelrbarton - 4 Years Ago
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Are we allowed to use copyrighted material and personalities in our entries? Because a lot of the famous movies scenes, scripts, songs, etc... are copyrighted.
I don't want to get in trouble if I use copyrighted material.
Are their any guidelines from Reallusion as to what material (copyrighted) we should and shouldn't use? Or any disclaimers. I am not a lawyer. I just don't want somebody to say
don't use my likeness, or don't use any material from my movie.
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By Peter (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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michaelrbarton (7/15/2021)
I have 2 questions.
1) Is the video entry title, for the Youtube title , or does that have to be at the beginning of the original entry video itself?
You should use the same video entry title everywhere. So your YouTube title, Forum Subject title and so on.
2) Does the iClone Contest Logo at the end have to be a full screen shot, or can it be in the right or left hand corner from 25% -50% of 1920 x 1080?
The contest log should be full screen for at least three seconds.
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By Peter (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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michaelrbarton (7/18/2021)
Are we allowed to use copyrighted material and personalities in our entries? Because a lot of the famous movies scenes, scripts, songs, etc... are copyrighted.
I don't want to get in trouble if I use copyrighted material.
Are their any guidelines from Reallusion as to what material (copyrighted) we should and shouldn't use? Or any disclaimers. I am not a lawyer. I just don't want somebody to say
don't use my likeness, or don't use any material from my movie.
YouTube is very hot on copyright so your video may be blocked if it contains copyright music or video. Likenesses are not normally an issue though but don't include any actual video clips from movies or tv shows. Even having a movie scene playing on a television in a scene could cause it to be blocked by YouTube.
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By Ascensi - 4 Years Ago
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@Eric C (RL), shouldn't it be "choose wisely for your "three entries" rather than "entry" since you have said up to 3 can be submitted.
Re: So choose wisely for your entry
Also, about submitting/registering our project, In my video below, it has the first 30 seconds as a WIP and the Reallusion contest banner for more than 3 seconds after but after that I share part of my WIP process, is it fine to submit a video with WIP info and later share a final version that is only 30 seconds plus the banner? do I register now or later? Thanks.
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By etourist - 4 Years Ago
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A couple of questions...
Will successful submissions be posted on the competition website at all?
How long should I wait to be notified to see if my submission was successful?
I submitted an entry a week or so ago and haven't heard anything either way. I'm pretty sure I met all the entry requirements in terms of information needing to be posted with the video etc. I wouldn't like to miss out just because of some detail I missed that I wasn't aware of, and could've been corrected in seconds.
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By animagic - 4 Years Ago
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@etourist: judging by previous contests you will not get advanced notification. As long as you follow the instructions on the submission form, you should be OK.
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By Eric C (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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Ascensi (7/23/2021)
@ Eric C (RL), shouldn't it be "choose wisely for your "three entries" rather than "entry" since you have said up to 3 can be submitted. Re: So choose wisely for your entry
Also, about submitting/registering our project, In my video below, it has the first 30 seconds as a WIP and the Reallusion contest banner for more than 3 seconds after but after that I share part of my WIP process, is it fine to submit a video with WIP info and later share a final version that is only 30 seconds plus the banner? do I register now or later? Thanks.
Hi @Ascensi,
Yes you are right the maximum entries is 3 per person. I will change the wording right away.
And after viewing your provided video link, I noticed that the first 30 seconds is your entry, and with a few seconds extra with the banner, which is okay.
But can you kindly remove the WIP in a separate video, and just attach it in your WIP thread?
Because the separated contest entry and WIP will help our judges better when reviewing the entry.
Thanks for the accommodation!
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By etourist - 4 Years Ago
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animagic (7/25/2021)
@etourist: judging by previous contests you will not get advanced notification. As long as you follow the instructions on the submission form, you should be OK.
Thanks for the reply. I'm sure I read, when I made my submission, that RL would contact you within 5 days of submitting to let you know if your entry was fine.
I haven't entered an iClone contest before, but with Cartoon Animator Contests they've always posted submissions to the competition website as they've been submitted.
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By andreascholer - 4 Years Ago
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Excited about this contest! Quick question:
Does the animation have to feature a single character or can it feature multiple characters?
Thanks! Have a great day!
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By animagic - 4 Years Ago
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andreascholer (7/27/2021)
Does the animation have to feature a single character or can it feature multiple characters?
I have an entry with two characters, so I think it's OK. I used Replica and AccuLips for both.
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By animagic - 4 Years Ago
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I'm in the process of filling out the submission form, but I'm puzzled by this:
WIP Llink Social Sharing: (Please set as Plublic share)
Is that just the link of my WIP on the RL forum? Because that's all I have.
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By animagic - 4 Years Ago
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etourist (7/27/2021)
animagic (7/25/2021)
@etourist: judging by previous contests you will not get advanced notification. As long as you follow the instructions on the submission form, you should be OK.Thanks for the reply. I'm sure I read, when I made my submission, that RL would contact you within 5 days of submitting to let you know if your entry was fine. I haven't entered an iClone contest before, but with Cartoon Animator Contests they've always posted submissions to the competition website as they've been submitted.
I just submitted and the following message was displayed:
Thank you for joining the iClone Lip-Sync Animation Contest 2021. Your submission has been received. Reallusion will review the details of your submission, and if there is no missing information, then we will send you an email when it's published. Thank you! Reallusion Team
So this doesn't really tell you what happens if there is missing information. I agree it would be nice to get notified about that.
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By Am7add9 - 4 Years Ago
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animagic (7/28/2021)
I'm in the process of filling out the submission form, but I'm puzzled by this: WIP Llink Social Sharing: (Please set as Plublic share)
Is that just the link of my WIP on the RL forum? Because that's all I have.
youtube and vimeo are social sharing sites.
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By animagic - 4 Years Ago
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OK, but I already gave the link to my final video on the form. I don't have a WIP video.
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By TrevorHill - 4 Years Ago
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Hello, some of the video links on the entries page are not working:
https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/event/2021-lip-sync-animation-contest/entries.aspx
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By linus10111 - 4 Years Ago
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I've been failing to understand something for a few days now.
Please someone explain how the naming convention works. I wouldn't like myself, or any participant, to be penalised for failure to understand.
In the first instance we are told to name our videos in a particular way:
Then submission page says we should name in a different way (see point number 3):
These two made sense to me until someone asked an almost similar question to the one I have now, and Peter(RL) responded like this:
How do we use the same title names everywhere, when the rules and submission page say something different?
Please help me understand
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By Eric C (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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linus10111 (8/6/2021)
I've been failing to understand something for a few days now. Please someone explain how the naming convention works. I wouldn't like myself, or any participant, to be penalised for failure to understand. In the first instance we are told to name our videos in a particular way: Then submission page says we should name in a different way (see point number 3): These two made sense to me until someone asked an almost similar question to the one I have now, and Peter(RL) responded like this: How do we use the same title names everywhere, when the rules and submission page say something different? Please help me understand
Hi @linus10111,
Appreciate your feedback and sorry for the late reply.
Please use the video title "2021 iClone Lip-Sync Animation Contest - (project name)"
We have also updated our webpage to avoid more confusion in the future, and we look forward to your entry.
Thanks!
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By quadrihossein.qh - 4 Years Ago
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Hello distinguished member, i noticed my entry that was reposted on the reallusion "Entries" page for the contest isn't playing from the page. i can see that happen to other people's entry....are we assured that the judges saw these entries that are not playing from the page. Please check attachment below.
Thank You!
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By Eric C (RL) - 4 Years Ago
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quadrihossein.qh (8/16/2021)
Hello distinguished member, i noticed my entry that was reposted on the reallusion "Entries" page for the contest isn't playing from the page. i can see that happen to other people's entry....are we assured that the judges saw these entries that are not playing from the page. Please check attachment below. Thank You!
Hi,
There was a glitch in our back end office, but I am sure now it is all fixed, and all the entry videos should be able to display.
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By letsdothis - 4 Years Ago
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Good luck everyone!
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