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For those who don’t know the tool: iClone is Reallusion‘s real-time character animation hub, sitting between Character Creator, ActorCore, Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine, with AI Studio adding guided image and video generation.
Reallusion announced a massive double release: the debut of iClone Personal (free for all users) alongside the official public launch of AI Studio. Together, they establish a seamless, zero-barrier pipeline that bridges traditional 3D artistry with next-generation AI workflows.
Having garnered strong community interest during its Early Access phase, AI Studio is now fully available to all creators. The platform comes equipped with advanced multi-reference capabilities that preserve actor likeness with unprecedented accuracy and consistency.
Alongside this launch, Reallusion is introducing iClone Personal Edition, replacing the legacy 30-day trial with a perpetual experience that removes time restrictions entirely. Creators gain unrestricted access to iClone‘s complete 3D toolset and AI Studio, enabling them to explore, learn, and master the entire 3D-to-AI workflow at their own pace.
iClone Personal: No Time Limits, No Creating Barriers
To give artists the ultimate freedom to integrate Reallusion tools into their workflows, iClone Personal officially replaces the traditional 30-day trial. The time restriction is completely gone, allowing creators to learn and master the software indefinitely. Because iClone Personal seamlessly integrates with the Reallusion ecosystem, allowing users to animate Character Creator actors and utilize ActorCore motion packs, while supporting full imports from other industry 3D tools, it serves as the perfect permanent environment for education and long-term pipeline compatibility testing.

A Flexible, Uninterrupted Pipeline
This update ensures creators never lose access to their work. iClone Personal provides the ideal space to build, block out, direct, and animate scenes indefinitely. While 3D project exports to external software are limited to 30 times in the Free tier, this restriction is instantly removed via a subscription plan or permanently lifted with a perpetual license.

iClone Personal: A permanent, zero-cost tier for indefinite learning, scene blocking, and animation with full project access and entirely free rendering. While creation is unrestricted, it includes a limit of 30 exports for external 3D pipelines.
Subscription Plans: A flexible, project-based option that completely lifts the 3D export limit. Ideal for creators who need to temporarily scale their pipeline and seamlessly export assets to game engines and external teams. If an active subscription ends, the software simply reverts to this Free version, keeping your work fully accessible.
Perpetual License: The premier upgrade path for professional studios wanting full, permanent ownership of the software and completely unrestricted 3D asset export capabilities.

Standalone Production Power with RTX Render
Creators can also take advantage of unlimited rendering via the upcoming, highly optimized RTX Render engine. Launching in Open Beta in late July as a future free update for iClone and Character Creator, this engine delivers high-fidelity visuals directly within the software. This allows creators to complete entire animation and rendering processes natively without needing to export to external tools, making the core production experience completely free.

The license rights for iClone Personal are clear:
Render Output: Renders created with RTX or the real-time renderer are licensed for personal and social use only and require an upgrade to a subscription plan or a perpetual license for commercial use.
AI Studio Exports: Commercial rights are determined by your AI Cloud plan; the Basic and Pro tiers include commercial use, while the Starter and Free tiers are limited to personal and social use.
AI Studio Official Launch: Enhanced Character Consistency & Next-Level Multi-Reference Control
With iClone Personal opening up a permanent environment for unrestricted 3D creation, creators now have the perfect foundation to fuel Reallusion’s next major release. AI Studio officially moves out of Early Access and into full public availability, introducing a powerful suite of new multi-reference features designed to deliver unmatched cinematic fidelity and an upgraded solution to character consistency.

Re-engineered AI Actor Support: Uncompromising Identity Precision
While Early Access introduced AI Actors (iModels) to ensure character consistency, the official launch takes character preservation significantly further. We have re-engineered the workflow to capture and lock down absolute identity precision, virtually eliminating identity drift even during drastic style or angle changes. This enhanced precision is also incredibly useful when characters do not clearly appear in the start frame, ensuring the model accurately anchors and maintains the correct identity the moment they step into view.

The useful part is not that another tool has learned to say AI in a louder font. The useful part is that the workflow starts with 3D character animation, not with a hopeful paragraph and a sacrificial coffee.
Enhanced Video Integration
AI Actors can now be combined as a reference layer directly inside the Seedance 2.0 video pipeline to ensure your character’s likeness remains flawlessly stable from the first frame to the last.

Image Edit Deployment
AI Actors can be deployed directly within image-editing workflows. Effortlessly swap assets, change outfits, or coordinate multiple characters across various angles. This unlocks complex, derivative storytelling pipelines while keeping your characters perfectly locked in, every single frame.

Advanced Multi-Reference Support for Seedance 2.0
As a platform that integrates multiple premier generative models, including Kling 3.0, Veo 3, Nano banana, Flux, and others, we are constantly pushing the boundaries to let users harness the full creative power of these technologies.
While Seedance 2.0 was already established in AI Studio as the most advanced video generation model for interpreting 3D spatial data, this official launch delivers a major update that allows creators to experience it to its absolute fullest. By introducing native support for what the industry knows as Elements in Seedance, the platform unlocks unprecedented artistic control.

Users can now seamlessly mix, match, and combine multiple reference inputs, including Image, Video, Audio, and AI Actors, alongside native 3D scene data. Instead of guessing with unpredictable text prompts, creators can orchestrate complex camera movements and character choreography in 3D, allowing the AI to flawlessly execute the final cinematic look with complete structural precision.

Reallusion AI Cloud Plans Now Fully Available
Coinciding with the public launch, Reallusion’s AI Cloud Plans are now officially open to everyone. Designed to scale with your production needs, these plans unlock the true capacity of the integrated 3D & AI workflow.

Subscribing to an AI Cloud Plan (Starter, Standard, or Pro) gives you full access to premier generation models like Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, and Veo 3, alongside a massive premium creative library:
5,000+ 3D Previz Assets: Fully unlocked for subscribers. Easily populate, compose, and block out your scene layout with poses, posed people, interior furnishings, buildings, animals, trees, plants, and vehicles.

200+ Production-Ready AI Actors (iModels): Skip the setup and jump straight into production with a massive roster of consistent digital humans, stylized characters, and creatures ready to perform under your direction.

(Note: Free-tier users can still get a taste of the workflow with a curated selection of 200 sample assets and 12 starter AI actors.)
Additionally, the AI Points included in these plans can now be used for other Reallusion AI cloud services beyond AI Studio. This includes powering your entire character and animation pipeline through the Headshot 3 image workflow and the cloud-based Video Mocap.
Why this is handy
For Previz, this release is the easiest on-ramp into the Reallusion ecosystem so far. Artists can block scenes, direct cameras, test performances, explore AI-guided looks, and keep the project file alive without a trial expiring in the middle of a job.
It also makes sense as a permanent utility install. Need quick background animation, a camera idea, a motion sketch, a lip-sync test or a “can this shot even work” pass? Open the free edition, move characters, point a camera, hit play. That is much better than building a production pipeline out of excuses and screenshots.
Start Your Limitless Creation Today
The future of 3D-to-AI production is live. Download iClone Personal to access unrestricted 3D creation and unlimited RTX rendering with no 30-day limits, and seamlessly step into the public launch of AI Studio for next-generation character consistency and workflow integration.
Get iClone Personal: New users can download the software permanently from the official iClone Product Page to begin building, directing, and animating 3D scenes without any time constraints.
Unlock iClone Pipeline Export (Subscription or Perpetual): Upgrade to a flexible subscription plan or a perpetual license to permanently remove the 30-time export limit. This fully unlocks iClone’s pipeline connectivity, enabling seamless 3D project and asset exports directly to game engines and other external 3D applications.
Access AI Studio: Now fully open to the public, existing users can update their software via the Reallusion Hub to access the fully integrated AI Studio toolkit. Free-tier users and trial explorers can begin testing the pipeline instantly, with 500 free AI Points automatically provided upon installation.
Explore AI Cloud Plans: To tap into premier generative models like Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, and Veo 3, along with the expanded premium asset library, creators can review options and subscribe directly on the AI Cloud Plans Page.