Learn iClone 7 | Character Creator | Unreal Engine Pipeline

Save your project and tailor the character's nose using morph controls in the nose section, adjusting scale, height, ridge, tip, and nostrils, baking changes to sculpt the profile.

Adjust lips in iClone 7 using the interactive tool to enlarge and shape the mouth, then smooth the mesh with built-in advanced tools, without external software; changes are easily reversible.

Resize and shape the ears with interactive tools and sliders, bake, then enlarge and position the eyes to resemble the reference character.

Tune toon eyes by adjusting scale, opening, and angle, then refine eyelids and eye width to avoid mesh poke-through, using built-in eyeblink correction and mesh editing for facial integrity.

Shape a toon girl head by lowering the jaw, refining the cheeks and back of the head, and adjusting the forehead for a cartoony profile using morph targets and sliders.

Smooth a toon character’s head in iClone 7 using edit mesh and sculpt tools to refine the nose, lips, eyes, and cheeks, then rename to Tune Girl.

Add hair to a toon girl in iClone 7 by selecting built-in hair, adjusting color with base color, and fine-tuning the mesh with edit mesh and soft selection.

Learn to change eye color and eyelashes in iClone 7 character creator by drag-and-drop from the eye and eyelash menus, applying materials, colors, and textures.

Learn to enlarge iris and pupil sizes in iClone 7 using the actor parts tab, scaling irises and pupils, and rotating the eyeball for a bigger eye look.

Adjust the character's teeth using headshot morphs and upper/lower tooth controls, including height, width, and angle. Use favorites, search, and x-ray views to fine-tune, then save and prepare for coloring.

Explore how to adjust toon character teeth materials in iClone 7, including brightness, saturation, gums, roughness, specular, ambient occlusion, and diffuse color to achieve realistic or cartoon looks.

Export your custom character to iClone and send the character over for cloning, then apply motion capture animation with audio in Cyclone 7 and audition it on the timeline.

Render your first animation as a video using render video, choose mp4, set export range to the full timeline, and save the file for Unreal Engine workflow.

Learn to automatically generate lip-sync for a toon girl in iClone 7 by importing an audio dialogue track, using AI-driven facial animation, and refining with smoothing and strength controls.

Explore Face Puppet in iClone 7 with built-in tools to animate characters from Character Creator, featuring short clips of Gomes, Skip to my Lou, and Manfred and their facial morphs.

Master iClone's face puppet for real-time facial puppeteering, layering eye blinks, lip-sync, and expressions. Learn to record, blend passes, and save puppet clips for reuse in your Unreal Engine pipeline.

Learn to add body motion to facial animation using motion puppet, blending multiple pre-recorded moves, masking, and fine-tuning in the timeline for natural, high-quality animation.

Edit mocap animations with the edit motion layer, set keyframes on the timeline, copy/paste keyframes, adjust arms and head with ik mode, and save motions to the animation library.

Connect your iPhone or iPad with a hard wired Cat5 connection to eliminate latency during facial capture, linking to a router and power supply for smoother animations.

Master real-time character animation with Live Face, lip-sync and facial expressions, exportable to Unreal Engine via a connected iPhone workflow, plus setup tips, pose, and preview controls.

Record live dialogue and facial animation in real time using Audacity and the live face app, then import into cyclone for lip-synced motion plus body animation.

Layer expressive animations on existing live face data by keyframing eyebrows and eyes, using muscle tracks, additive editing, and corrective tweaks for a more dynamic digital puppet.

Start quickly by loading the Alien Hybrid UEE project and installing the unreal live link plugin to send an animation from iClone into unreal engine via live-link, with setup guidance.

Create a new Unreal Engine project named alien_hybrid, enable the Lifelink plugin and auto setup, and activate live link to transfer assets.

Set up and activate live link between iClone and Unreal Engine, stream the character animation in real time, and capture it with sequence recorder, noting audio will be imported later.

Learn to capture and sync recorded animation in Unreal Engine using sequencer and Live Link, add dialogue audio, create animation assets, and render a final video.

Disable the live link, save the scene, and trim the initial non-moving frames to clean up your animation in Unreal Engine, and plan to sync audio in the next video.

Create a level sequence in Unreal Engine, place the alien hybrid character, and sync the greetings animation with the dialogue track for lip-sync.

Smooth a faceted mesh after transferring from iClone 7 to Unreal Engine by enabling tessellation on the RL HQ skin shader and saving the material.