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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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Character Creator 5 (CC5) brings character creation into the HD era. Its powerful subdivision workflow bridges game-ready 3D characters with film-quality rendering. This release includes all-new HD Morphs, anatomically accurate human bases, the next-gen ActorMIXER generator, and an advanced HD facial animation system. Step into the future of expressive, lifelike, production-ready digital humans.

MAXIMIZE CHARACTER DESIGN

Character Creator is an all-in-one character creation software loaded with powerful tools: design engaging characters, adjust shapes with ease, define skin tones, change hairstyles, dress characters for animation tests, customize any humanoid asset, or even create characters from photos.

  |   ADVANCED HUMANOID AUTO-RIGGING

With enhanced AccuRIG integration, Character Creator automates humanoid rigging while giving you powerful tools to handle complex multi-mesh models. It features hard surface rigging, precise skin weight adjustments for flawless binding, and customizable skeleton layouts to support different body types and humanoid creatures. More >

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.

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

Supporting Major Character Workflow

Character Creator offers free add-ons to accelerate your design workflow with leading industry tools. Enjoy seamless integration with GoZ for ZBrush, CC Tools for Blender on asset creation, and CC AutoSetup for shaders and skeleton mapping in Unreal Engine and Unity Mecanim. Create with UDIM support for Substance Painter, cloth design and alembic baking with Marvelous Designer, and the auto render setup for Marmoset Toolbag, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, and USD workflow for NVIDIA Omniverse.

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130,000+ PREMIUM 3D ASSETS FOR TRIAL

Discover the perfect digital assets — all within a single application. Reallusion AI Smart Search is seamlessly integrated into Character Creator, giving you instant access to countless models and animations from the Content Store, Marketplace, and ActorCore. Choose between AI-powered Deep Search for precise results or traditional text-based search for simple queries.

APPLICATIONS

Reallusion is dedicated to delivering the ultimate real-time digital human solution. Character Creator puts a wide range of essential features, intelligent tools, and rich content at your fingertips — empowering you to bring your characters to life, from film to games.

GET STARTED!

Choose a 3D starter package and begin your creative journey with the ultimate 3D character creation tool.

CC5

All-in-One 3D Character Creation

$299

Includes:

  • Character Creator 5
  • Free CC5 resources
CC5 DELUXE

Complete toolkit for HD character creation

$479

Includes:

  • Character Creator 5
  • Free CC5 resources
  • ActorMIXER PRO

  

  • ActorMIXER CORE Library
  • HD Ultimate Morphs
  • HD Human Anatomy Set (Bonus Content)

WHAT'S NEW

MetaTailor Plug-in: A fresh way to style your character
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See What’s Coming in CC5 & Secure Pre-launch Giveaway Today!  See More >

Two-way Data Link for Fast & Stunning Creation
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AI Smart Search: A Natural Way to Find Ideal Assets
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Check out the Winners' Awesome Works! Explore >

Accelerate High Quality Character & Crowd Production
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Direct Control over CC Characters in Unreal Engine.
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Empower Fully Expressive 3D Facial Animation.
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Turn static mesh into fully-rigged CC character.
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Transform intricate sculpts into posable masterpieces in just a few clicks. See More >

A truly accessible, controllable, and editable wrinkle-blending system driven by facial expression morphs. See More >

Auto rigging humanoid 3D models. See More >

Automatic Shader and Skeleton Assignment for Characters & Assets

FEATURED STORY

How a ZBrush Artist Speeds Up Rigging and Posing with Character Creator AccuRIG
Create Game Characters with CC Auto Setup for 3ds Max and V-Ray
Top Stylized Horror Film Honors Mexican Sacrifice

CC5 vs. CC4

Features

*New functions in Character Creator 5 are marked in bold.

CC5 CC4
Body & Facial-Rigged Character Base Standard CC5 HD character
70K polycount (SubD 1)
2K / 4K / 8K material textures
Standard CC1, CC3, CC3+ characters
20K polycount
4K material textures
Standard Game Base character
10K polycount (with reduced bone count)
Standard ActorBUILD character
15K polycount
Single material for crowd rendering
Non-standard characters
Humanoid creatures
MetaHuman Compatbile HD Facial Profile
MHA facial animation import
*Also in iClone 8
Character Setup ActorMIXER
Auto Import Character with Standard Profiles
(Mixamo, Maya HIK, 3ds Max Biped, Blender Human Meta Rig, Unreal UE4)
Daz Transformer
HD Morph
Only Base Level
HIK Characterize Editor
Spring Dynamics
Physics (Hair, Clothes)
T-Pose
Facial Profile Editor (Expression Manager)
Corrective Expressions
Correct Eyelashes (Position & Restore Shape)
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 (rigging 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 modifiers
SkinGen (Dynamic Skin Layer Editor)
(CC3 Base+, CC5 HD)
(CC3 Base+)
Hair & Facial Hair System (Smart Hair)
New Eyelash (Eyelash Elements & Group Content)
Material & Shader Character - Digital Human Shader
(CC3 Base+, CC5 HD)
(CC3 Base+)
Character - Smart Skin Color Shader
(CC3 Base+, CC5 HD)
(CC3 Base+)
PBR Shader for clothes and props
Asset Creation GoZ
Morph slider creation
Subdivision normal baking
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 smooth 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 Merge
LOD (Level of Details)
Visual HDR (HDR video baking)
HBAO+
IBL & directional, spotlight, point lights
Soft shadows, shadow catcher & multiplier
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 Animation playback
Hair spring dynamics
Cloth physics
Animated turntable
Gender-based idle motion
Rendering Mesh subdivisions
Mesh tessellation
Realtime rendering
PBR/Digital Human shader support
Toon shading
Image rendering
Video rendering
Compatible Plugins ActorMIXER PRO & CORE Library
*With additional purchase
Headshot
*With additional purchase
*With additional purchase
SkinGen Premium
*With additional purchase
*With additional purchase
Iray
*With additional purchase
Compatible plugins
(Free of cost)
Omniverse Connector
Smart Gallery
*Built-in
*Built-in
Auto Setup for Unreal
Auto Setup for Unity
Auto Setup for Blender
Auto Setup for 3ds Max
Auto Setup for Maya
Auto Setup for Marmoset Toolbag