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Creating Animatable Digital Doubles from a Single Photo

December 23, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblog1 Comment

Learn how to create fully-rigged digital doubles from a single photo with the new Headshot Plug-in !

Reallusion’s Headshot Plug-in for Character Creator is a unique approach to real-time character head modelling which combines automatic AI based photo alignment with morph-based manual alignment and texture re-projection. Used in tandem with an image editor such as Photoshop, it can be used to produce highly realistic, animation ready models in a fraction of the time involved when making rigged models from scratch using conventional sculpture, scans or photogrammetry. You can download a free trial here.

In this article, Mike describes his workflow of using Character Creator and Headshot to produce a high quality animated model from a single photo. Compressed from 3 hours of continuous footage, whilst the video is not a tutorial, it demonstrates a professional’s approach to high quality model creation, with many tips for Headshot artists along the way.

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Animate heads easily with Cartoon Animator

December 20, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblogLeave a comment

Discover how Cartoon Animator 4’s new 360 Head Creator lets you animate a smooth, organic-looking head turn in minutes, not days.

Cartoon Animator makes it easy to create high-quality 2D animation – even if you can’t draw. Formerly known as CrazyTalk Animator, Reallusion’s intuitive software provides a set of ready-to-use characters and motion clips to help you hit the ground running.

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Create a Jungle Adventure Sequence in One Day

December 18, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblog2 Comments

In this article, filmmaker Adolf Navarro shares the tips on how he create a jungle adventure sequence within just one day, taking advance of the iClone real time animation tools and the content of the Reallusion’s Content Store.

You can watch the overall guide of the methods and tricks used to facilitate the animations in this video:

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Generate And Animate Crowds From Character Creator 3

December 17, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblogLeave a comment

Create Crowds in iClone Using Re-meshed Characters from Character Creator

In this article, Adolf Navarro, Director at Antareus Ltd., gives a walkthrough of his process for using Character Creator 3 and iClone to create a crowd scene with good quality and animation performance.

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The Rise of the Real-time Digital Double: Reallusion Unveils AI-Powered Headshot Plugin

December 4, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblog1 Comment

Headshot Plugin official trailer:

Creating realistic digital doubles normally requires a massive effort in 3D techniques which often involve many artists and passes, but that’s changing with the release of Headshot Plugin for Character Creator 3. Headshot uses AI technology to automatically generate digital human in minutes from one single photo, and those characters are fully rigged for voice lipsync, facial expression, and full body animation.

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iClone MasterClass #4 – Developing Dynamic Atmosphere with Lightning & Physics in Real-time

November 21, 2019July 14, 2022 enocburgosLeave a comment

Experienced Video Director/Animator – Benny Dee shares a detailed tutorial on how to develop dynamic atmosphere with lightening and physics in real-time in iClone 7.

Hello. In this iClone tutorial, I will show you how to develop a dynamic atmosphere with lightning and physics in real-time. This is part of the iClone Master Class series to help iClone users improve and level up their skills.

To begin, we have our scene opened in iClone and we see that the shadows are dark. (Fig 1.0) That is because I deactivated the atmosphere features. Therefore, we are going to turn them on to brighten up the project.

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Speed up Action Sequence Creation in Animation

November 14, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblog2 Comments

Hi I’m Adolf Navarro, and this time I want to show you how one single person can create very cool action sequences in a short period of time using iClone and the characters and models of Reallusion’s Content Store.

The main advantage of Reallusion animation applications is that they are extremely easy to learn and use, so the animation process becomes very intuitive and fast, all the same, the final result can be pretty cool even getting a nice cinematic aspect just using few filters in the video editing phase. Almost no post production or compositing are needed.

The tutorial video:

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iClone MasterClass #3 – Employing Realtime Particle Effects for Dazzling Visuals

November 11, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblogLeave a comment

Experienced Video Director/Animator – Benny Dee shares a detailed tutorial on how to employ realtime particle effects for dazzling visuals in iClone 7.

The Author

Benjamin Sokomba Dazhi (Benny Dee)

Animator, Video Director, Editor, Cinematographer from Nigeria https://www.instagram.com/therealbennydee/

Welcome to this MASTER CLASS Level-Up Series by Benny Dee, where I share my tips and tricks on how to create amazing animations with clever usage of real-time tools. This is tutorial series was created to help users improve and level up their skills.

In this tutorial #3, I will be showing you how to employ real-time particle effects by simulating the effects, adjusting attributes, attaching effects and adding lights to the scene

Let’s get started.

Product Release

Cartoon Animator 4.1 Opens Roundtrip Creativity with PSD Tools and WACOM Tablets

November 7, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblogLeave a comment

Swiftly Turn Adobe Photoshop, Krita, Affinity, Clip Studio and Photopea illustration into animation

Cartoon Animator (CTA), recognized among the easiest 2D animation software, is releasing the new updated version 4.1 which opens to all mainstream PSD tools, such as Adobe Photoshop, Krita, Affinity, Clip Studio and Photopea . Users of these PSD tools and WACOM tablets can now swiftly turn their creative concepts into animation using their original processes via Cartoon Animator.