Compatible with Audio Lip-sync, Facial Puppet and Face Key Editor
Complete Custom Puppet Profile for Each Character
GameBone Template, Automate Your Talking Character Design
Spec and Documentation for Automatic Character Import
Bonus - Lip-sync Script for Viseme Tuning and Benchmark
Bonus - Dummy Bone and Samples for OBJ Morph Animation
Description:
The Facial Pipeline Character Pack offers three fully face and body rigged characters – Hunter, Chimp and Croc, allowing you to animate and puppet their faces intuitively. Each character has its own complete facial profile complete with neutral, joyful, angry, laughing and surprised options and their own iMotion body animations. Useful tools in iClone5.4 you can use with your characters include a detailed lip-sync with viseme, HIK motion layer editing, auto-blink, and much more! Not only can you utilize these features in iClone5.4, but you can also customize their individual viseme profiles, facial expression values… all the way down to individual facial muscle movement. This pack includes both the FBX and iAvatar files for each character to give you more flexibility.
This jaded old hunter is designed using the new iClone G5 GameBone, a much more simplified character skeleton structure with 25 face bones and 51 body bones, while maintaining the complete body movement and facial articulation. This is a new generation of iClone character design optimized for 3D game engines like Unity or Unreal, and it can also be perfectly animated in iClone for generating video footage.
With a fully morph-based facial setup designed with a combination of Maya and Zbrush, this cute and naughty chimpanzee has the potential for exaggerated, organic, and cartoon-like facial movement and high lipsync animation quality.
Croc
The Way Professional Character in Animation Films Works!
Most professional animators use a combination of skin-bone animation to maintain the facial structure of a character while adding subtle details by using morphing techniques. We combined both bone and morph facial setups in this croc to give him the potential for more detailed and subtle facial animation. Aside from bone-based facial movement capabilities, this model also contains a collection of blend shapes that can be used in various capacities to provide more refined results.
2 versions:
• LazyTongue - includes a tongue set as an extend bone which can be manually edited or assigned a spring value
• Tongue is included in the head bone to provide more detailed lip-sync
Character Template
The Quick and Easy Way to Scratch Build Your Own iClone Talking Character
Game engine friendly + Automatic Face and Body Characterization
Use this FBX GameBone template to create your own G5 GameBone character! Not only will it greatly reduce the amount of time you’ll need for model rigging, but it will also allow you to enjoy the convenience of Automatic Face and Body Characterization in 3DXchange. With the new G5 GameBone template, you won't need to repeat the facial mapping process. Simply drag in your own GameBone character in FBX format to 3DXchange5.4, and it will fully characterize your character, from body to face, so you can immediately enjoy the complete body and facial animation capabilities of iClone.
DAZ Genesis Character Extension
This extension provides you with the easiest and fastest way to bring DAZ Genesis characters into iClone so you can use iClone's powerful real-time animation tools to animate both body and face!
1-click conversion for DAZ Genesis Characters to iClone - Body and Face
We’ve streamlined the characterization process for DAZ Genesis characters so that when you import them into 3DXchange in FBX format, it will automatically complete all of the facial and body mapping for you!
DAZ Character for Complete iClone Animation - Body and Face
We’ve streamlined the characterization process for DAZ Genesis characters so that when you import them into 3DXchange in FBX format, it will automatically complete all of the facial and body mapping for you!
Custom DAZ Facial Behavior through DUF Key Sequence
This iCloneFaceKey.DUF file contains the crucial DAZ to iClone facial mapping data arranged in a specific sequence, each key represents an unique face morph state, i.e., a facial muscle movement or a mouth shape for lip-sync . We store key frames by seconds. By modifying the face morph keys, you can create your unique DAZ facial behavior, either for lip-sync, or emotional expressions. You can keep your own DUF for reuse.
Included Document: DAZ Genesis to iClone Face Sequence.XLS
A-to-Z Lip-sync Test File
Achieve the Best Lip-sync Result
If you're looking for an easier way to create 3D characters with ideal lip-sync results, use this useful test file (iTalk) to benchmark the accuracy of your lips and tongue setting. The A-to-Z audio test file can not only help you check each individual mouth shape, but also show how you can combine viseme shapes to create more accurate facial feature placement.
Check how lip-sync works on different characters, how about your own?
Morph ZArt
Morph Animation Beyond Human
Whether you’re dealing with a bust statue or an abstract object, every single model now has the potential to utilize more of iClone’s versatile motion tools. To further enhance your creative abilities within iClone, we’ve provided a quick work-around to enable users to morph any props with identical topology.
From this update, you can quick create cool morph animations simply by using 3D modeling or sculpting tools such as ZBrush, 3D Coat or Blender to generate 3D models sharing the same topology as morph targets.
By using the dummy bon, we can quickly turn an object into a dummy character, and use the custom facial puppet tool to puppet animate the morph effect.
You can get this cool ZArt character(iAvatar) and do your own puppet animation, and utilitize the inckuded dummy bone to animate your own morph creations.
Learn how it works
Import morph objects in OBJ files, and define the puppet controls through a Custom profile.
Use the Custom puppet panel to morph animate your object.
What's included:
• iAvatar x 7
- Chimp
- Croc (original, lazy tongue)
- Hunter (original, shaved, fully-equipped)
- Morph character
• Motion x 6
• Accessory x 3
• iProp x 1
• FBX Character x 3
- Chimp
- Croc
- Hunter
• GameBone - Hunter
• DAZ Genesis Character Extension Mapping File (.duf)
