iClone is the fastest real-time 3D animation software helping users easily produce professional animations for films, previz, animation, video, and games. iClone simplifies the world of 3D Animation in a user-friendly environment that blends facial performance, character animation, mocap production, scene design, and cinematic storytelling.
No tool can be faster and easier than iClone for creating quality character animation with smooth motion blend, interactive target reach, footstep system, and mocap data correction.
Powerful facial tools with proven proficiency on muscle level facial editing, facial puppeteering, multi-pass facial mocap, and accurate lip-sync animation.
iClone is like a swiss army knife for fast animation production with a powerful character animation system and beyond including all critical features for storytelling, scene construction, physics simulation, multi-camera directing, and visual effects.
IBL, global illumination (GI), volumetric light, soft shadow, shadow caster, eye adaptation, IES
Dynamic control over lens type, focal length, depth of field, camera switch
Sky, terrain, water, SpeedTree, PhysX rigid body and cloth simulation
PBR, SSS, motion blur, lens flare, glare, fog, reflective surface, particle effects
Modular scene management, asset filer, fast show/hide, merge projects, isolate selection
iClone is perfectly coupled with Character Creator (CC), enliven all character types made by CC and also access shared folders for character assets, motion data, and facial resources between iClone and CC.
iClone provides an open API for python scripting, Unreal Live Link, and free plugins for NVIDIA Omniverse render and more.
iClone and CC seamlessly work together as one big design-to-animation character platform and greatly ease the in-and-out productivity with many other 3D applications.
Access the largest premium character library made by top designers
and enjoy the consistent drag-and-drop experience to build new designs using thousands of characters,
morphs, skin, outfit, shoes, hair, accessories, and motions are at your selection.
Participate in the marketplace designer community and profit from your creativity.
| Features | iClone 8 | iClone 7 | |
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| *New functions in iClone 8 are marked in bold. *All items are priced in US dollars. |
$599 With partial 3DXchange Pipeline integration, Curve Editor and Motion LIVE. |
iClone 7: $199 3DXchange Pipeline: $499 Curve Editor: $149 Motion LIVE: $199 |
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| Lipsync & Facial Expression Editing | AccuLips Lip-sync | ✓ | ✓ |
| Facial Puppet | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Face Key Editor (Muscle, Expression, Morph Slider) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Advanced Muscle Panel (Multi-Level) | ✓ | ||
| Detailed Layer Tracks (Bones, Blendshapes, Facial Features) | ✓ | ||
| Curve Editor (Facial Control) | ✓ | ✓ (Paid plugin, No facial control) |
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| Body Motion Edting | FK/IK Editing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic Layer Keys | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Motion Blending | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Transition Curve Preset | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Look-at Constraint | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reach Constraint | ✓ (Enhanced) |
✓ | |
| Reach Target Editor (Interactive Motion) | ✓ | ||
| Vertex Animation (Point cache) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Direct Puppet | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Motion Puppet | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Motion Modify | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Morph Animation | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Animation Layer Editor | ✓ | ||
| Auto Root Alignment Between Motion Clips | ✓ | ||
| Extended Looping Animation (Continuous Forward Motion) | ✓ | ||
| Bi-directional Blending for Smooth Clip Transition | ✓ | ||
| Motion Direction Control | ✓ | ||
| End Effector Editing | ✓ | ||
| On-Screen Body Control Rig | ✓ | ||
| Detailed Layer Tracks (Part Level, Bone Level) | ✓ | ||
| Motion Correction (Footstep, Handprint Editing) | ✓ | ||
| Curve Editor | ✓ | ✓ (Paid plugin) |
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| Perform Editor (Motion Playlist) | ✓ | ||
| Mirror Motion & Masked Motion Copy | ✓ | ||
| Motion Director (Play to Animate) |
Player Control: Mouse, Keyboard and Controller | ✓ | |
| NPC Control: Path, Bounding, Script, Follow | ✓ | ||
| Behavior Manager to Activate/Expand Motions | ✓ | ||
| Motion LIVE | Unified Motion Capture for Face, Body and Hand | ✓ | ✓ (Paid plugin) |
| Supported File Format (Import) | OBJ (Mesh, Material) | ✓ | ✓ |
| FBX (Mesh, Material, Motion) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) | |
| Alembic Animation (Same Vertex Count) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iAvatar, iCloth, iShoes, iGloves, iHair, iAcc | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iMotion, rlMotion | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iMotionPlus | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iAtm | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iEffect | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iProp | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Supported File Format (Export) | OBJ (Static Mesh) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pro) |
| FBX (Bone Rig, Animation, Blendshapes) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) |
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| iAvatar, iCloth, iShoes, iGloves, iHair, iAcc (to Character Creator) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iMotion, rlMotion, iMotionPlus (to Character Creator) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ABC (Alembic) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) |
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| USD (Omniverse) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) |
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| Visual | HDR (Bake HDR Video) | ✓ | ✓ |
| HBAO+ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| IBL, Directional, Spotlight, Point Light | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Soft Shadow, Shadow Catcher, Mutiplier | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Global Illumination (GI) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PBR/Digital Human Shader | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Point Light with Shadow | ✓ | ||
| Volumetric Light | ✓ | ||
| Mirror Plane Shader | ✓ | ||
| Lens Flare | ✓ | ||
| Motion Blur | ✓ | ||
| Eye Adaption | ✓ | ||
| Exclude Visual Effect by Object or Material | ✓ | ||
| TAA | ✓ | ✓ | |
| IES | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Performance | Minimal Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Static Object | ✓ | ||
| GPU Acceleration (Skin Bone) | ✓ | ||
| Accelerated Show/Hide | ✓ | ||
| Productivity | Python API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flexible Frame Rate | ✓ | ||
| Merge Project | ✓ | ||
| Collection Manager (Group) | ✓ | ||
| Hotkey Manager | ✓ | ||
| Device Mapping (Camera, Light, Object RTS) | ✓ | ||
| Environment & Character Settings | Light Creation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Character Proportion | ✓ | ✓ | |
| NVIDIA PhysX (Rigid Body/Kinamtic/Soft Cloth) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Morph Creator | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Stage & Prop | Terrain, SpeedTree, Sky, Water | ✓ | ✓ |
| Animated Prop with Right-Click Perform List | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Video Texture/Transparent Video | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Render | Subdivision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tessellation | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Realtime Render | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Supersampling (up to X times) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Toon Shader | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 360 Video | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PBR/Digital Human Shader | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Plug-in | |||
| Unreal Live Link (Indie Free/Paid) | ✓ *Requires additional purchase |
✓ *Requires additional purchase |
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| PopcornFX (Paid) | ✓ *Requires additional purchase |
✓ *Requires additional purchase |
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| Iray (Paid) | ✓ *Requires additional purchase |
✓ *Requires additional purchase |
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| Omniverse Connector (Free) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Smart Gallery (Free) | ✓ *Built-in |
✓ | |
| Auto-setup for Unreal (Free) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Auto-Setup for Unity (Free) | ✓ | ✓ | |
