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What's Included in the Free Download
Reallusion is offering the CC3+ character bases for free to accelerate 3D character production. The comprehensive CC base mesh speeds up design and enhances animation workflows with precise rigging and skin-weights.
*If you already use Character Creator, you'll find these character bases in your character folder, ready for immediate production.
Optimized Topology for Animation & Sculpting
The fully-rigged CC base models showcase uniform quad surface topology, ideal for real-time animation and subdivision editing. These base models effortlessly morph into any human shape, whether aiming for realism or stylization. Their meticulous body and facial rigging ensure natural joint articulation and believable facial performances. See more about CC Face Topology & UV Guide.
Character Creator topology can accommodate people of all ages and body shapes.
How to Use the Free Base Mesh in ZBrush, Blender & More
FBX — Animate with Full Skeletal Rig
The foundational model with a full skeletal rig is provided in FBX format, along with a comprehensive range of facial morphs for animating expressions. In addition, eyes, brows, teeth, and tongue are individualized components, ready for customization. Designers have the flexibility to modify the character's body shape or paint textures using tools such as Blender or Substance Painter. By keeping the topology and UVs consistentent, characters can seamlessly transfer to and from Character Creator for additional adjustments, outfiting, posing, and animation control.
OBJ — Sculpt as a Unified Mesh
All body parts are consolidated into one single mesh, making it convenient to load and edit in any 3D application. Character morph generation for CC characters is also optimized by this flexible design.
ZTL — ZBrush Subtool Structure
Streamline your character creation process with a CC base ZTL file, sculpting directly in ZBrush and utilize the GoZ feature to seamlessly send the sculpted character back to CC. Leveraging Character Creator's native functions, enhance the character with additional adjustments, outfitting, posing, and animation control. See how ZBrush master Michael Pavlovich takes the free CC Base from sculpt to fully rigged character in his step-by-step walkthrough. Read the full tutorial >
The free CC character base is accessible for both personal and commercial purposes, encompassing applications like filmmaking, animation, gaming, 3D printing, and education. For more information regarding usage regulations and limitations, please refer to the end-user license agreement (Section 5: Character Creator Base Model License).
Character Creator breathes life into static 3D sculptures, facilitating animation and easy articulation with tools like facial control and pose editing. Its streamlined content library system simplifies the integration of assets like clothing and accessories onto characters with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality. With the introduction of five additional character bases, Character Creator is more capable than ever — Try it out with our 30-day free trial and experience its capabilities firsthand!
FACIAL CONTROLS
POSE EDITING
CONTENT LIBRARY
Free Base Mesh Alone vs. Free Base Mesh + Character Creator
Free Base Mesh (FBX/OBJ/ZTL) |
CC5 Trial |
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| Sculpt & modify in ZBrush/Blender | ✔︎ | ✔︎ |
| Fully rigged skeleton | ✔︎ | ✔︎ Animate directly with body & facial controls |
| Shape transformation | ✖︎ Fixed base shape | ✔︎ Morph sliders + ActorMIXER for unlimited body/face variations |
| Facial animation | ✔︎ 150+ morphs | ✔︎ 390+ morphs, HD Face Control |
| Clothing & accessories | ✖︎ (Model separately) | ✔︎ 390+ drag-and-drop, physics-enabled |
| Realistic skin textures | ✖︎ (Paint separately) | ✔︎ SkinGen one-click layering |
| Export to Unreal / Unity | ✔︎ | ✔︎ One-click Auto Setup |
| HD Subdivision (CC5) | ✖︎ | ✔︎ Up to 16× details |
| Price | Free | Free (30-day trial) |
Getting Started with Free CC Character Base
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