UNIVERSAL
CHARACTER SYSTEM

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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.

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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

CHARACTER SCALABILITY

Character Creator gives character designers the largest possible character usability with the CC character base for character design, importing humanoid characters, or auto-rigging static models. Choose to subdivide and export characters for highly-detailed rendering, or decimate characters for mobile apps or crowd simulation.

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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FREE RESOURCES 2000+

Experience different aspects of Character Creator's powerful features by testing out the included items. An extensive library of highly valuable CC4 projects, characters, outfits, hair, animations, morphs, light presets, etc. are ready for your download.

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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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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.

Digital Human

Ultra-realistic real-time actors for films, games, or AI-driven avatar.

Game

Optimized export to Unreal, Unity with shader compatibility.

Visualization

Concept art, fashion design, ZBrush posing, and 3D print.

Simulation

Low-poly, one-material, high-performance characters for AEC, digital twins.

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.

Premium content store with pack and items provided by certified featured artists.

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Thousands of browser interactive mocap motions, and realistic 3D crowd people.

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Uncensored community asset store, bustling with individual item sell, and try to buy options.

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CC4 vs. CC3

Features CC4 CC3
*New functions in Character Creator 4 are marked in bold.
*All items are priced in US dollars.		 $299
With partial 3DXchange Pipeline integration (Value $499)		 $199
Body & Facial-Rigged Character Base Standard Character - CC1, CC3, CC3+ (20K Poly, 4K Texture by Materials) ✓ ✓
Standard Character - Game Base (10K Poly, with Reduced Bone) ✓ ✓
Standard Character - ActorBUILD (15K Poly, 1 Material for Crowd Rendering) ✓
Humanoid (Non-Standard) Character - Any Rigged Biped Humanoid ✓
Creature (Non-Human) Character - Any Rigged Model ✓
Character Setup Auto Import Character with Standard Profiles
(Daz G3/G8, Mixamo, Maya HIK, 3ds Max Biped, Blender Human Meta Rig, Unreal UE4)		 ✓
HIK Characterize Editor ✓
Spring Dynamics ✓
Physics (Hair, Clothes) ✓
T-Pose ✓ ✓
Facial Profile Editor (Expression Manager) ✓
Bone Adjustment ✓ ✓
Supported File Format (Import) OBJ (Mesh, Material) ✓ ✓
FBX (Rigged Character, Mesh, Material, Motion) ✓
FBX (Daz & Hivewire Character Proprietary, Morph, Assets) ✓ ✓
FBX (CC Character Editing) ✓ ✓
iAvatar, iCloth, iShoes, iGloves, iHair, iAcc ✓ ✓
iMotion, rlMotion, iMotionPlus ✓ ✓
iAtm ✓ ✓
iEffect ✓ ✓
iProp ✓ ✓
Supported File Format (Export) OBJ (Static Character Mesh) ✓ ✓
OBJ (Selected Items) ✓
FBX (Character Bone Rig and Morphs) ✓ ✓
OBJ, FBX (CC Character Editing) ✓ ✓
iAvatar, iCloth, iShoes, iGloves, iHair, iAcc (to iClone) ✓ ✓
USD (Omniverse) ✓ ✓
FBX (Upload to Sketchfab) ✓ ✓
Character Appearance Face and Body Morph Modifier ✓ ✓
SkinGen (Dynamic Skin Layer Editor) ✓
(CC3 Base+)		 ✓
(CC3 Base+)
Hair & Facial Hair System (Smart Hair) ✓ ✓
Material & Shader Character - Digital Human Shader ✓
(CC3 Base+)		 ✓
Character - Smart Skin Color Shader ✓
(CC3 Base+)
Cloth/Prop - PBR Shader ✓ ✓
Asset Creation GoZ ✓ ✓
Create Morph Slider ✓ ✓
Cloth - Appearance Editor (Dynamic Material) ✓ ✓
Cloth - Auto-skinning ✓ ✓
Cloth - Skin Weight Editing ✓ ✓
Cloth - Auto-conformation ✓ ✓
Cloth - Partial Conform Tool ✓ ✓
OBJ/FBX to Accessory Conversion ✓
Delta Mush (Mesh Smoothing Deformer) ✓
Prop Edting Mesh Editing ✓
Skin Weight Editor ✓
InstaLOD ✓
Mesh Tools OpenSubdiv ✓ ✓
Edit Normal ✓ ✓
Edit Mesh - Vertex Soft Selection ✓ ✓
Edit Mesh - Poly Selection ✓ ✓
Edit Mesh - Element Selection ✓ ✓
Edit Mesh - Brush Push & Pull Selection ✓ ✓
LOD Generation
*Powered by InstaLOD		 Polygon Optimization ✓ ✓
Remeshing ✓ ✓
Material Merging ✓ ✓
LOD (Level of Details) ✓ ✓
Visual HDR (Bake HDR Video) ✓ ✓
HBAO+ ✓ ✓
IBL, Directional, Spotlight, Point Light ✓ ✓
Soft Shadow, Shadow Catcher, Mutiplier ✓ ✓
Global Illumination (GI) ✓ ✓
PBR/Digital Human Shader ✓ ✓
Point Light with Shadow ✓
Volumetric Light ✓
Reflection Surface (Mirror) ✓
TAA ✓ ✓
IES ✓ ✓
Environment & Character Settings Light Creation ✓ ✓
Pose Editing ✓ ✓
Pose Saving ✓ ✓
Face Key Editing & Saving ✓ ✓
Bone List Panel & Bone Filter ✓
Animation Player ✓
Animated Display Play Character Animation in the Viewport ✓
Cloth/Hair Physics & Spring Dynamics ✓
Animated Turntable ✓
Auto-apply Idle Motion by Gender ✓
Render Subdivision ✓ ✓
Tessellation ✓ ✓
Realtime Render ✓ ✓
PBR/Digital Human Shader ✓ ✓
Toon Shader ✓
Render Image ✓ ✓
Render Animated Video ✓
Compatible Plug-in Headshot (Paid) ✓
*Requires additional purchase		 ✓
*Requires additional purchase
SkinGen Premium (Paid) ✓
*Requires additional purchase		 ✓
*Requires additional purchase
Iray (Paid) ✓
*Requires additional purchase		 ✓
*Requires additional purchase
Omniverse Connector (Free) ✓ ✓
Smart Gallery (Free)

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*Built-in

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Auto-Setup for Unreal (Free) ✓ ✓
Auto-Setup for Unity (Free) ✓ ✓