Exchanging Body Motions and Facial Expressions

With MotionPlus file, you can not only pass motion and constraint results to other characters, but also facial expressions. This is useful if you want to create a group of people with the same performance, such as a choir or a team of cheerleaders.

Exchanging Body Motions and Facial Expressions

1. In iClone, apply a character.
   
2. Create body motions (composed of motion clips, hands clips, and motion layer keys) for the character.
   
3. Apply a voice for the character to make it talk or sing.
   
4. Apply facial expressions to the character (with embedded expression templates or the Facial Puppeteering feature).
5. Open the Collect Clip track of the character and select a range.
   
6. Right click within the range the select the Add MotionPlus to Library from the menu.
   
7. Activate the Motion and Facial Animation boxes. Save these items into one single MotionPlus file.
   
8. Apply other characters into iClone. They can be either in this or another new project.
   
9. Drag and drop the save MotionPlus file onto the new characters.
   
10. Alternatively, you can select the new character and click the Animation >> MotionPlus >> Modify Panel >> Import button and load the MotionPlus file.
    
11. You may see that the included motions, as well as the facial expressions are applied to the new characters.