Yes, that's right, I've only purchased cartoon animator 5 so far and haven't purchased iclone 8 yet, mainly because I think iclone 8 is overpriced. I have not purchased iclone 8 yet, mainly because of the high price of iclone 8. I have to buy various plugins in addition to iclone 8. Many plugins cost more than the price of the software itself.

In fact I see that iclone is currently launching a series of related ai products, which is a step in the right direction. From the production of characters with character-creator, to the character binding skeleton with accu-rig, and the latest launch of AccuPOSE (which can be interpreted as an action pose library), the next should be poor ai generated props material library, special effects library, ai text-to-speech, so that the creation of an animation of a roughly the process of the formation of the basic. However, I would like to say that, at present, iclone initial purchase software price is too high, will raise the threshold of the use of software, then you develop these expansion plug-ins can not be secondary sales, although accupose launched the annual package price of a few dozen dollars, but the premise is that you have to buy the iclone software body.

In addition, the market open source software blender software free strategy, has quickly grabbed a large number of users in the market, and their software update frequency is also quite fast, of course, their plug-ins are also charged.
Although the iclone software itself does not have to be free, but let the software body to reduce the price of sales, so that more users to use this software, there is an opportunity to sell a variety of subsequent plug-ins and expansion.

The above is just a personal recommendation for iclone software pricing sales!