iClone delivers the fastest professional results for real-time 3D animation. Orchestrate facial performance, motion capture, scene design, and cinematic storytelling—all within one intuitive platform backed by a rich 3D ecosystem.
Create high-quality character animations in the quickest way possible with realtime previews, smooth motion blending, mocap correction, and layered motion controls.
Take complete command of expressive facial performances with advanced facial animation tools, including muscle-level editing, real-time puppeteering, and precise lip sync.
Enter the 3D iClone cosmos to witness a powerful character animation system, dynamic scene construction, physics simulation, multi-camera direction, and cinematic effects.
IBL, global illumination (GI), volumetric light, soft shadow, shadow caster, eye adaptation, IES
Dynamic control over lens type, focal length, depth of field, camera switch
iClone and CC seamlessly work together as one big design-to-animation character platform and greatly ease the in-and-out productivity with many other 3D applications.
iClone offers a wide range of additional resources—ready-to-use characters, mocap motions, props, scenes, clothing, visual effects, and materials—designed to accelerate animation and expand creativity, all available across three Reallusion-operated stores.
| Features | iClone 8 | iClone 7 | |
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| *New functions in iClone 8 are marked in bold. *All items are priced in US dollars. |
$599 With partial 3DXchange Pipeline integration, Curve Editor and Motion LIVE. |
iClone 7: $199 3DXchange Pipeline: $499 Curve Editor: $149 Motion LIVE: $199 |
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| Lipsync & Facial Expression Editing | AccuLips Lip-sync | ✓ | ✓ |
| Facial Puppet | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Face Key Editor (Muscle, Expression, Morph Slider) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Advanced Muscle Panel (Multi-Level) | ✓ | ||
| Detailed Layer Tracks (Bones, Blendshapes, Facial Features) | ✓ | ||
| Curve Editor (Facial Control) | ✓ | ✓ (Paid plugin, No facial control) |
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| Body Motion Edting | FK/IK Editing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic Layer Keys | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Motion Blending | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Transition Curve Preset | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Look-at Constraint | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reach Constraint | ✓ (Enhanced) |
✓ | |
| Reach Target Editor (Interactive Motion) | ✓ | ||
| Vertex Animation (Point cache) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Direct Puppet | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Motion Puppet | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Motion Modify | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Morph Animation | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Animation Layer Editor | ✓ | ||
| Auto Root Alignment Between Motion Clips | ✓ | ||
| Extended Looping Animation (Continuous Forward Motion) | ✓ | ||
| Bi-directional Blending for Smooth Clip Transition | ✓ | ||
| Motion Direction Control | ✓ | ||
| End Effector Editing | ✓ | ||
| On-Screen Body Control Rig | ✓ | ||
| Detailed Layer Tracks (Part Level, Bone Level) | ✓ | ||
| Motion Correction (Footstep, Handprint Editing) | ✓ | ||
| Curve Editor | ✓ | ✓ (Paid plugin) |
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| Perform Editor (Motion Playlist) | ✓ | ||
| Mirror Motion & Masked Motion Copy | ✓ | ||
| Motion Director (Play to Animate) |
Player Control: Mouse, Keyboard and Controller | ✓ | |
| NPC Control: Path, Bounding, Script, Follow | ✓ | ||
| Behavior Manager to Activate/Expand Motions | ✓ | ||
| Motion LIVE | Unified Motion Capture for Face, Body and Hand | ✓ | ✓ (Paid plugin) |
| Supported File Format (Import) | OBJ (Mesh, Material) | ✓ | ✓ |
| FBX (Mesh, Material, Motion) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) | |
| Alembic Animation (Same Vertex Count) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iAvatar, iCloth, iShoes, iGloves, iHair, iAcc | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iMotion, rlMotion | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iMotionPlus | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iAtm | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iEffect | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iProp | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Supported File Format (Export) | OBJ (Static Mesh) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pro) |
| FBX (Bone Rig, Animation, Blendshapes) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) |
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| iAvatar, iCloth, iShoes, iGloves, iHair, iAcc (to Character Creator) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| iMotion, rlMotion, iMotionPlus (to Character Creator) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ABC (Alembic) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) |
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| USD (Omniverse) | ✓ | ✓ (Requires 3DX Pipeline) |
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| 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 | ✓ | ||
| Mirror Plane Shader | ✓ | ||
| Lens Flare | ✓ | ||
| Motion Blur | ✓ | ||
| Eye Adaption | ✓ | ||
| Exclude Visual Effect by Object or Material | ✓ | ||
| TAA | ✓ | ✓ | |
| IES | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Performance | Minimal Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Static Object | ✓ | ||
| GPU Acceleration (Skin Bone) | ✓ | ||
| Accelerated Show/Hide | ✓ | ||
| Productivity | Python API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flexible Frame Rate | ✓ | ||
| Merge Project | ✓ | ||
| Collection Manager (Group) | ✓ | ||
| Hotkey Manager | ✓ | ||
| Device Mapping (Camera, Light, Object RTS) | ✓ | ||
| Environment & Character Settings | Light Creation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Character Proportion | ✓ | ✓ | |
| NVIDIA PhysX (Rigid Body/Kinamtic/Soft Cloth) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Morph Creator | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Stage & Prop | Terrain, SpeedTree, Sky, Water | ✓ | ✓ |
| Animated Prop with Right-Click Perform List | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Video Texture/Transparent Video | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Render | Subdivision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tessellation | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Realtime Render | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Supersampling (up to X times) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Toon Shader | ✓ | ✓ | |
| 360 Video | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PBR/Digital Human Shader | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Plug-in | |||
| Unreal Live Link (Indie Free/Paid) | ✓ *Requires additional purchase |
✓ *Requires additional purchase |
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| PopcornFX (Paid) | ✓ *Requires additional purchase |
✓ *Requires additional purchase |
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| Iray (Paid) | ✓ *Requires additional purchase |
✓ *Requires additional purchase |
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| Omniverse Connector (Free) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Smart Gallery (Free) | ✓ *Built-in |
✓ | |
| Auto-setup for Unreal (Free) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Auto-Setup for Unity (Paid) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| AccuPOSE (Paid) | ✓ | ||
| Timecode (Paid) | ✓ | ||
