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Animation // SIGGRAPH // Video/Film // Visual Effects // Los Angeles

Reallusion releases iClone 7

LOS ANGELES — Reallusion has released iClone 7, the biggest update in the iClone realtime 3D evolution, which is a giant leap that empowers iClone users with the latest PBR/GI visuals, unlimited creation for 3D characters, professional animation for morph and curve editing, real camera system, as well as several significant technology integrations with industry leaders.

iClone 7 is now a virtual production platform with community inclusive tools and massive aggregation of real-time content.

New in iClone 7 is support for:

PBR physically-based rendering

Nvidia global illumination (VXGI)

60-morph facial animation rig

Character pipeline for Unity and Unreal

Live mocap (total body motion capture solution)

Techviz & previz with real camera system and camera switch (RED, Alexa, Canon)

Morph creator and morph animation

LUT library with film looks

Lighting and shadow pass, shadow casting, matte shadow and invisible mesh plane

Temporal anti-aliasing (TAA)

IBL bake 360° capture

HBAO+ (enhanced horizon-based ambient occlusion)

Motion curves with graph editor (7.1)

Visual learning library with hundreds of quick-reference feature videos

Users can create elaborate character design tools with a workflow that capitalizes on speed and quality, combined with animation-ready rigging to immediately enliven character creations with motions, facial animation, and lip sync. They can also create vivid facial animations with audio lip sync and puppet emotive expressions with motion key editing. The amount of facial morphs has now doubled from 30 to 60, giving users unmatched facial precision for mouth, cheek, eye, and other facial feature animation.

iClone 7 is now plugin-ready for developers and technology companies to connect hardware and software with iClone. iClone 7 is available for Windows starting at $199.