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A promotional image for Reallusion featuring the text 'SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION Available Now' in bold white and yellow letters against a dark background with a soft wave pattern.

2 min

Reallusion expands licences for iClone and Character Creator

Reallusion now offers subscription or perpetual licences for key tools and repositions AccuPOSE INFINITY as a standalone purchase.

Bela Beier

14.01.2026

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A dramatic landscape featuring a towering, dark cube levitating above the rocky terrain. A figure in a red cloak stands in the foreground, with mist and gray skies creating a moody atmosphere. Red markings glow on the cube's surface.

9 min

The Cube Moved: Go for the Chaos (Ad) Vantage

Architecture Illustrators and Visualizers test Chaos Vantage for a narrative short and accidentally build a moving house. Unbox proves real-time previz can tell stories, not just sell floor plans.

Bela Beier

10.11.2025

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A split-screen preview of a digital animation software displaying two animated female figures. One figure is in grey, wearing a fitted top and pants, and the other is in a white top and grey pants, positioned in front of an orange curtain background.

2 min

Video Mocap: Reallusion’s AI Gets Moving

Reallusion adds online AI motion capture to iClone: Video Mocap turns footage into editable animation for $2.50 per clip.

Bela Beier

03.11.2025

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A man with a surprised expression, wide eyes and slightly parted lips, is positioned against a dark background. On the right, a digital interface displays various facial feature markers and adjustments.

5 min

Here’s Character Creator 5 — Now in Hero-Quality, MAya-Friendly, MetaHuman-Friendly, and Armed with ActorMIXER

Reallusion launches Character Creator 5 featuring HD subdivision, upgraded facial animation, ActorMIXER Pro, and integration with Maya, Marmoset, and Unreal.

Bela Beier

28.08.2025

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2 min

AI Render for iClone & CC with ComfyUI Integration, Available in Open Beta

Reallusion announces the open beta of AI Render, a completely free plugin that bridges Reallusion’s intuitive 3D software, including Character Creator and iClone—with ComfyUI, the open-source, node-based interface widely regarded as the gold standard for customizable AI visual generation.

Bela Beier

22.08.2025

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A fantastical creature with the body of a muscular humanoid and the head of a bull, adorned in ornate golden armor. The background is dark, highlighting the character's menacing stance and glowing hand details.

2 min

Animation for All: Reallusion AccuRIG 2.0 and Friends Keep Things Moving

AccuRIG 2.0 puts 4,500+ animations a click away. Reallusion’s animation and rigging ecosystem is picking up speed.

Bela Beier

21.07.2025

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3 min

Reallusion’s CC4.54 & iClone 8.54 Let You Snag, Try and Buy Assets Without Leaving the App

CC 4.54 and iClone 8.54 bring in-app trial assets, instant DA Point checkout, and low-cost iContent licence for rapid prototyping.

Bela Beier

30.06.2025

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A humanoid robot in a dynamic pose, featuring a sleek white design with blue accents. It is extending one arm and is positioned against a dark background, suggesting motion and agility.

2 min

AccuPOSE Infinity Expansion 4: Kids, Kicks & Caffeine-Free Chaos

Subscribers to Reallusion’s AccuPOSE INFINITY now get eight fresh AI motion models spanning playground high-jinks to full-contact kicks.

Bela Beier

06.06.2025

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Actors in motion capture suits fighting on set, with a digital animation display showing their movements.

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iClone 8.53: Now in Sync

Reallusion's iClone 8.53 adds timecode support and streamlines scene export for Omniverse and Unreal Engine.

Bela Beier

18.04.2025

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Close-up portrait of a young woman with brown eyes and a subtle smile, illuminated against a dark background. She has a smooth complexion and is wearing earrings.

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The First Look at Character Creator 5: Prelaunch Offer Starts NOW

Reallusion is set to redefine real-time 3D character creation with the upcoming launch of Character Creator 5 (CC5) this summer. Key updates feature HD character bases, enhanced shaders, and an advanced facial animation system.

Advertorial

08.04.2025

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Reallusion Releases iClone 8.5 and Character Creator 8.5

Reallusion updates its core 3D animation tools, iClone and Character Creator, to version 8.5. The updates focus on refining workflows and adding new features.

Bela Beier

12.09.2024

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5 min

Mech vs. Giant Slugfest mit iClone & Character Creator

Below is an interview with Cesar Turturro, a successful film director who was honoured with the coveted Epic MegaGrant 2022 for his outstanding work on "Invasion 2040".

Bela Beier

18.12.2023

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14 min

Ballerina: CGI-Fantasie mit C4D, Character Creator und iClone

Behind every ballet performance are ... Character Creator, iClone and Cinema 4D?

Bela Beier

06.04.2023

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2 min

transferring 3D characters from Reallusion software to Unity?

This plug-in helps to export characters from Character Creator, iClone and ActorCore to the game engine Unity. A free offer.

Patrick Poti

16.01.2023

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4 min

Reallusion releases Cartoon Animator 5

Optimise your 2D animation with feather physics, FFD overdrawing and vector graphics

Bela Beier

13.12.2022

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1 min

What can iClone 8 from Reallusion do that the competition can’t?

Plask, Radical, DeepMotion, Pixcap and iClone 8 - these are the names of the mocap tools! Blender expert Russell Midfield pits the motion capture programmes against each other.

Patrick Poti

23.11.2022

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An animation software interface showcasing a colorful octopus swimming among aquatic plants. The background is blue, simulating an underwater scene, with timeline settings visible at the bottom and tools on the left.

12 min

Cartoon Animator 5 (CTA5) Cartoon Dynamics & Vector Animation for everyone?

Reallusion promises with the release of of the "revolutionary" Cartoon Animator 5 (CTA5), Reallusion promises to further develop the possibilities of animation production for cutout and bone-based 2D animations with the "unique" techniques of CTA.

Ralf Gliffe

23.11.2022

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5 min

Club culture, techno music and character animation combined with iClone & Character Creator

Music video par excellence: Relative.berlin makes DJ Taube dance and utilises all the new features of iClone!

Bela Beier

26.09.2022

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Reallusion releases AccuRig!

A-Pose or T-Pose? The free rigging of bipedal 3D characters - together with the asset library ActorCore: Only suitable for low-poly models?

Patrick Poti

23.08.2022

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Character Creator 4 & iClone 8 released!

Count Zahl rejoices: 3D characters in version 4, 3D animation in version 8. Also suck it up: The training programme for the Reallusion tools on Virtual Production Dojo!

Patrick Poti

07.06.2022

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Flight Simulator | Workshop Report Wednesday

Aeroplanes in your stomach - and on the (virtual) runway? Alessandro Cucinotta guides you to where "Microsoft Flight Simulator X" and "Reallusion" tools provide lift!

Patrick Poti

01.06.2022

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1 min

Actorcore | Release

Let your 3D models fidget until the cloud implodes.

Patrick Poti

25.01.2021

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