Universal Character System for Animation, Game, XR, and Metaverse | Character Creator

Why Character Creator?

Character Creator(CC) is a full character creation solution for designers to easily generate, import and customize stylized or realistic character assets for use with iClone, Maya, Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, or any other 3D tools. CC connects industry-leading pipelines with one system for 3D character generation, animation rigging, asset management, look-dev rendering, and interactive design.

Characterize Any Actor to CC

Whether humans, creatures or props, creativity is no longer limited by the existing CC character base. Any rigged biped models can be imported, characterized, and facial rigged in Character Creator. New features now make any character compatible with thousands of motion assets, ready for natural lip-sync, motion capture, and animation controls in iClone. CC characters can also be optimized for low-poly, high-performance crowd simulation, AR, VR, and Metaverse.

CC Avatar

CC Avatar (Standard Human) - Fully rigged with CC3+ topology, supports face and body morph, outfit system, SkinGen material, and full iClone animation compatibility

Humanoid

Humanoid (Non Standard Human) - Biped model characterized for CC and iClone, supports HumanIK body rig, spring bone, facial rig for expression and lipsync

Crowd

Crowd (ActorBUILD) - A low-poly, merged UV, one material character converted from CC avatar for high-performance crowd simulation

Creature

Creature (Non Human) - In any animatable skeletal form, be able to import custom animation, supports CC IK/FK posing and iClone animation editing

Prop

Prop - Any 3D model with hierarchical mesh node, custom morph or bone structure for animation

Total Character Design

All-in-one tools to design engaging characters, easily adjust character shapes, define skin looks, change hairstyles, dress for animation tests, import and rig new character assets, or even create characters from photos.

3D Hair & Beard

Conformable Smart Hair system with modular parts design, realistic hair shader, and physics dynamics.

Skin Generation

Ultra-realistic skin layering system dedicated to human skin synthesis.

Modeling Morph

Facial and body morphs for realistic human and stylized cartoon.

Digital Human Shader

Dynamic materials simulating realistic human skin, eyes, hair, teeth and tongue.

Custom Facial Rig

Create personalized expressions and lip-sync styles

Create 3D Heads from Photos

AI based Headshot plugin for Character Creator, includes thousands of facial morphs for further face feature shaping.

Showcase Characters

Turntable or animated rendering for life-like characters

3D Outfit & Accessory

Multi-layer, conformable clothes with physics simulation, 3D shoes, gloves, and accessories.

Fully Rigged, Fully Animatable Characters

Whether starting from a CC base character or importing a custom rigged model and characterizing it to CC, imported characters are ready to work in game engines, and fully compatible with iClone animation controls.

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Character Ecosystem

Access the largest premium character library made by top designers and enjoy the consistent drag-and-drop experience to build new designs using thousands of characters, morphs, skin, outfit, shoes, hair, accessories, and motions are at your selection.
Participate in the marketplace designer community and profit from your creativity.

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Smart Asset Management

Smart content manager will one-click install free designer resources as well as purchased assets. Smart Content also allows you to tag and search personal works saved. By using pack view, easily find all items in a content pack without fumbling through numerous asset folders.

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Auto Import Characters and Motions from Known Standard

Character Creator can auto detect the imported character type when dragging in an FBX file, thus immediately see them in action. Supported character types include Maya HumanIK, 3ds Max Biped, Blender Meta-rig, Mixamo characters and motions, and Daz3D G3/G8 characters and motions.

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Supporting Major Character Workflow

Character Creator provides free addons to speed up the character design workflow with major industry tools, such as GoZ for ZBrush, CC Tools for Blender, CC AutoSetup (shader and bone structure) for Unreal Engine and Unity Mecanim, UDIM compatible with Substance Painter, and rigged character compatibility with Marvelous Designer.

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ONE CHARACTER, ALL APPLICATIONS

CC empowers character artists and IP companies creating cross-platform 3D character assets. Ranging from ultra realistic digital humans to stylized cartoon figures for games and films, to lightweight 3D crowds for business simulation. CC also rapidly speeds concept art and fashion design. Robust exports support major industry formats and shader level compatibility with game engines.