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  Easy to Create a Photo-realistic 3D Heads for Actors  
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G2 Avatar (2nd Generation) - G2 Avatar adds 9 all new customizable body styles (2 of them are default) to the creative casting options.  
     
Natural motion and posing (G2 Avatar) - Natural, smooth, and realistic character motion and posing through enhanced bone system and character rigging.  
     
High detailed texture design (G2 Avatar) - High quality texture resolution (1024 x1024) reveals in close-up shots for rich character design.  
     
Face Fitting - Customize your own 3D head by importing one photo and mapping it to the 3D head template using the easy fitting wizard.  
     
 
Custom Hair - Adjust hair size and easily design your own 3D hair color.  
     
 
Photo Enhancement - iClone provides smart colors and auto levels to help enhance any photo without the need for an external photo editor.  
     
 
Custom Eyes - Select from eye templates inside the custom eye library featuring many colors, alien effects, cartoon eyes, etc.  
     
 
3D Face Shaping - 3D face shaping tools modify your characters eyes, nose, ears, and face shape letting your 3D avatar become more beautiful or cartoon-like.  
     
 
Texture Editor - Edit the mapped facial texture of any 3D head to improve blemishes or add paint effects.  
     
 
Custom Teeth - Select from teeth templates inside the custom teeth library featuring many normal teeth, animal teeth, or monster teeth styles.  
     
 
Add talking facial animation to any 3D head  
     
 
Emotion - Assign instant emotion templates including happy, angry, and sad.  
     
 
Scenario Template - Assign an emotive scenario template with pre-designed mood based vocal and facial expression.  
     
 
Record Voice - Using your PC microphone to record your voice and iClone will
automatically lip-sync the audio with facial animation to your character.
 
     
 
Launch CrazyTalk - If you have installed CrazyTalk 4.5, you can launch CrazyTalk for CTS voice script animation editing from iClone (Purchase of CrazyTalk 4.5 required.).  
     
 
Load CTS - Using CrazyTalk CTS voice scripts lets your avatar have more emotion. You can load CrazyTalk CTS audio script file for the perfect lip-sync
result.
 
     
 

  Customize iClone Avatars  
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Clone Cloth - Powerfully simplified custom clothing creation for iClone G2 clone cloth (2 included in product) characters using images to shape and decorate custom designs  
     
Dual-layer model - Dual- layer Clone Cloth characters feature outer garments able to reveal the inner skin when cut to fit.  
     
Automatic Motion Retargeting - Anti-foot sliding, removes the foot sliding effect when applying motion data to different body scales, the repaired footstep will fit on the ground when moving with Anti-foot sliding applied.  
     
Figure Modify - Figure function lets your avatar become strong, tall or fat.  
     
 
Design your own clothing - You can adjust upper body, lower body and shoes color or launch your preferred external image editor software (i.e. Photoshop) to paint or add graphics to clothing.  
     
 
Realistic Motion - iClone provides realistic motion making avatars dance, walk, flex or perform everyday motion.  
     
 
Gesture - Use the hand animation or static hand poses to assign gestures to your
avatars with control over individual hands.
 
     
 
Skin Tone - You can customize the avatar skin. Skin tone is automatically assigned using a sampling from your fitted face.  
     
Accessories - Add various accessories to your avatar with assignable body position.  
     
 

  Direct Your Own Movie  
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LivePlants template - Create a real-time ecosystem of foliage for 3D scenes adding natural moving trees, grass, and flowers with swaying wind effect.(2 of them are default, 20 more released in World Wilderness 3D Scenes pack)  
     
 
Camera Effect - Apply animated camera effects or adjust camera focal length.  
     
 
Lighting Effect - Adjust light color, lighting angle, and apply animated light templates.  
     
 
Shadow Effect - iClone provides shadow opacity and blur. You can select drop or wall shadows.  
     
 
Self-cast Shadows ( NVIDIA only) - Cast world realistic shadows on onto any 3D objects, with opacity and blur quality control, real-time shadow map technology users can control the cast or receive shadow from characters or from full scene.  
         
Ambient Lighting - You can tune the ambient light to alter the overall lighting strength.  
     
 
3D Scene and Props - iClone provides varied 3D environments for dance, adventure, and performance all supporting the ability to import different 3D props to compose your 3D world.  

  Materials & SFX  
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Real-time Texture Editing - Real-time editing and display of multiple texture effects with texture channels including diffuse, opacity (mask and alpha transparency), bump, glow, and reflection.  
     
 
Support importing Normal map – You can directly import Normal map in bump texture channel to allow low polygon objects appear with high surface detail.  
     
 
3D Blocks and custom texture library - Combine library textures with included 3D blocks to create custom props, accessories, or scenery.  
     
 
Billboards application - Billboards can always face audience when camera moves, used for creating sign board, talking bubble, produce grass, or distant tree.
 
     
 
G2 Clone Cloth - Customize clothing design using texture template and any image or photo editor. Use diffuse textures to add graphic design to clothing and opacity textures to cut Clone Cloth into custom character clothes.  
     
 
Save, import and export clothing textures - Save clothing in character library for storage and future use. Import texture images for instant clothing construction from packs. Export Texture images for sharing or selling as Texture Packs.  
     
 
Real-time SFX creation - Visual effects engine with preset and custom Particle SFX & Fog. SFX library includes environmental, tunnel, text, water, fire, smoke, and more.  
     
 
Simplified user interface for particle modification - Create and store custom effects using the simplified user interface for powerful particle modification.  
Only emitter settings and diffuse & opacity map importing
     
 
Particle SFX positioning and interactivity with objects - Assign particle emitters to scene objects and animate these scene objects with attached particle emitters’ trail effects.  
     
 
Control of particle emission start and stop frames – Simulate multiple particle timeline control by specifying start and stop frames.  
     
 
Character visuals enhanced with Particle SFX - Assign particle emitters to any character bone segment and animate characters with SFX particle emitter trail effects. Use SFX modification panel to choreograph particle behavior to characters.  
     
 
SFX Rendering and instant real-time preview - Real-time instant preview playback of SFX scene elements. Output SFX for use in iClone scenes or as Post effects generator exported as alpha-channeled video.  
     
 
Advanced Particle SFX Parameter Controls - Particle color, opacity, blending modes - Alpha, Addition or Subtraction. Emitter size, position, direction, rotation, life cycle, quota, strength, volume, vector, randomness, gravity and wind force.  
     
 

  Rendering and Multimedia Output
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High speed rendering - High speed rendering delivers real-time scene with fast performance.  
     
HD video resolution output - HD 720p (1280x720) and HD 1080i (1920x1280)  
     
Quick Shader - Fast preview rendering, supporting drop shadow, and opacity map.  
     
 
Real-time Rendering Engine with Pixel Shader technology - Provides high visual quality performance with hardware rendering support. Effects includes normal map, bump map, glow, reflection, masking, alpha transparency, multi-texture effects, and self-cast shadow.  
     
 
Image Output - Image file exports BMP, Jpeg, TGA, and Gif  
     
 
Image Sequence Output - Image Sequence supports Gif animation and BMP, Jpeg, TGA sequence. Power users can export Image Sequences for use in post-production editing software.  
     
 
Video Output - Video Output includes DVD video, AVI, RM, WMV, Mpeg4  
     
 
MMS Output - MMS supports 120x120, 240x240, 4 frames mobile mms file.  
         
3GP and Mpeg4 - Mobile video supports Nokia, Motorola and Panasonic series mobile phones that can play 3gp or Mpeg4.  
     
 
Full screen real-time display  
         

Efficiency Tools
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Shortcut Tools Menu - Shortcut Tools menu helps you quickly access individual key functions.  
     
 
Quick Camera Switch - Camera switch helps you switch Top, Right, Left, Face, and Front camera views faster using hotkeys.  
     
 
Asset Manager - Asset Manager helps you manage iClone content. Asset Manager is a convenient tool to assist you in managing complete iClone avatar, motion, props, etc.  
     
 

Time Setting - Looping media control allows the shorter-length media loop along with the longer media.
If you have a 3 minutes of music and a 30-second motion, you can check the motion loop to keep the motion looping until the end of your 3-minute music file.

 
     
 
Music Sync - Match the tempo of your imported music file with the iClone music sync tool.  
     
 

  Professional Tools  
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iClone Animation Timeline Editor for camera, lighting, 3D Props, LiveProps, character, hand gesture, accessories - Complete animation editing with keys and motion clips, construct scenes, animate cameras, block characters and shoot scenes.  
         
iClone Multiple Character Selection Tool - Allow users may add, delete, hide and rename characters.  
         
iClone Multiple Texture Editor - Customize the look of any prop, character or accessory using the multiple texture editing effects including diffuse, alpha transparency, masking, bump, glow and reflection. Users can combine several texture settings to generate sophisticated high quality real-time effects. Features are accessible from Character and Props.  
         
iClone Texture Mapping UV Options - For precise custom texture editing of iClone models, users can access unwrap uv map tools. Full texture mapping methods provided include planar, box, spherical, cylindrical (w or w/o capped), and tiling with uv offset, tile number, and rotation settings.  
         
iClone Motion Editor - iClone Motion Editor can edit motion and create iClone motion clips. iClone Motion Editor is a powerful motion blender enabling you to create your own customizable motions for use within the iClone application.  
     
 
iClone 3D Studio Max Plug-in - Max Plug-in can customize your own iClone avatar, scene, props and accessories. You can design iClone content using the iClone 3D Studio Max Plug-in. (Register for the CCD program and download the iClone 3D Studio Max Plug-in for free.)  
     
 
iClone BVH Motion Converter - BVH converter can convert most BVH motion files. The iClone BVH motion converter expands the potential to build your motion library to unlimited motions. Users can generate or fine tune custom BVH profiles to suit any format of BVH data as iClone motion via the BVH Profile Editor.  
     
 
Specify Render Region - You can specify the render area by pressing the render area button. Use mouse drag to shape a red box, drag on the box line to move the render area.  
     
 
Reallusion's Effect3D Studio SCX Files Import - Effect3D Object Import
allows you to add more 3D objects from Reallusion's Effect3D Studio. (Purchase of Effect3D Studio required.)
 
     
 

Bonus
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3D Blocks - Quick scene build up using iClone building blocks  
3D Surface and Billboard  
3D LiveProps  
Texture Library  
2D Background Images  
Custom Music Orchestrations  
Sound Effects