 Hey there team welcome back to game dev Academy. I'm Shane and in this video I want to share with you as you can see on screen character creator for Which is not out yet It's work in progress video that I want to look at from reallusion who made the software And I want to share with you because I'm quite excited about it I think it looks very cool and it's software that I would really like to get my hands on when it's released I think it's going to be game-changing and when something excites me like that like with the Unreal Engine 5 release I like to share that with you guys. So that's what we'll do today Also because I think it looks cool and to be fair their current version character creator 3 is already pretty cool I'll do a giveaway at the end of the video So stick around for that and now shall we take a look at this release video or this working progress video rather? To see what the software is all about So as you can see it's a work in progress video and they say you can in live in any character So there we have Some examples here. That's pretty cool a character made out of tubers cool-looking dog Right, so there's oh hang on let's just go back to that so it says you can auto character import and it works with the DAZ G3 and G4. I don't know what G3 and G4 is leave a comment down below if you can tell me what that is I don't use DAZ the blender human meta rig cool my human IK. That's the one I like to use so that's good and the 3ds max Biped as well. So there's a lot of functionality and a lot of compatibility there cool. Okay, so we can create a character It brings someone in And then so it's showing you now all the different places that you can bring characters in from and they've all got this Walk animation applied one from the Maya rig as well there. So this is characterized any Character rig so hang on that so this looks like character. They've paid $10 for on That's the sketch fab site. I think So they've taken one. I can't see if it says here whether or not it was pre rigged I'm gonna assume. It's already got bones, but I don't know that for sure It isn't a T-pose you see there are now bones in there And they are now setting it up to work with An IK rig and they've added animation so that that looks like it worked really quick and Thousands with compatible with thousands of iClone motion so you can get things animated really quickly so it comes with like built-in motions. Oh so fast So yeah, straight away. It's animated So retarget original motions nice You can also see they've used the controllers in Character creators to change the size of it. So even though it was already modeled there because it's rigged they can change it We can add spring dynamics Wow, so that's kind of the overlapping action and The secondary animation on things like tails and ears It looks like it can add dynamics to handle up for you If you ever had to do that by hand, you'll probably Recognize how time-consuming that can be so Yeah, look how it's working on the tail Nice and floppy you don't want a stiff tail Yeah, look at the difference between those two so it does a little turn watch how the ears and Tail move on the ones on the right. It has such a big difference Okay, so we can now look at the face so it's So straight away it's allowing you to change Some of the like expression templates on the face And it's setting up then to be ready I would imagine for more detailed face animation You can see that the person that's working on this is making changes to it in Zbrush So they're going out to another suite and adding whichever changes. They think they need To get the result they want and then that just goes straight back into Character creator and they blend pretty well together as well. Look at that. Ah So here Right, so it looks there. So they brought in some audio and it's aligning vizemes So what your vizemes are are they're kind of like the mouth shapes that go with particular sounds When you're talking so you've got like I you so it's Aligning them automatically I think and then the the animation comes out So you've got auto lip-syncing again such a time saver if you've ever had to do that before that is Yeah, this is a big big time saver. You can see that that that looks pretty good So this one this gentleman here having a little sniff So this is something that I am dying to play with Which is with with iClone you can use the the iPhone camera and have the facial Animation go straight on to your rig as you can see this is happening here So there are also some settings that look like are in the app as well But that's going straight in there and the only reason I've not done this is because I don't own an Apple device I'm not yet in the cult of Apple look at what how cool is that just straight away And I've seen some people with YouTube channels create some like ridiculous Like the animation is so good, and they've done it so fast using this So yeah, it goes straight on to the character. Look how much fun He's having so all the puff and the crazy eyes and oh dear I'm looking at bits sort of creepy So we've brought in another character and now they're sorting out skin weight of the cloth So they can add things as beards and things which is probably gonna fit then how it moves and which parts of the body it goes with We can have animatable accessories as well. So some things can be able to move so again That's really cool. You know, you've got things like a sword shield armor. Oh What is this? So this looks like the epic metahumans I think so This is now showing the multi-level facial controls. So the character already looks cool Look at so he's just moving parts of the nose top lip the ears. So it's showing just how expressive The characters can be So it's even got the let's just go back the crease lines for the blink Nice and dilate the pupils. I Need to play with this personal lips So push and pucker that sounds like a good name for a pub, doesn't it? Open it. Yeah, look, I mean look at all the fine control that you've got So each one of these has got controls you've got both sides you can control. So yeah, just showing us here now You can do different sides It looks like it's just like drag on one of the parts as well So that you got that going up and down. Oh Just go back so when that mouse opening and closing look at the Adam's apple. So even the Adam's apple pops Like the the detail on those characters is very very very impressive So we're bringing them character so preview body rig preview facial rig So yeah, I mean When you think how much time it would take to do this Not I mean not even frame by frame, but just key framing it you're talking dozens of hours And it's all just done. I need to get hold of this So then it gives you the option to turn table display so you can show off your work I ain't yet. So you've got all this being shown you so you can render it and show off me How cool would that look on your on your show real in your portfolio? I mean, that's some good stuff And let's just go back so it's then showing us Some of the things that you can add it into the pipeline for So on real engine unity omniverse again, I still need to have a good play with omniverse and blender Very cool Yeah, and then it shows you it's using in blender unity on real engine And then I think it's summarizing animate any rig advanced facial performance Characters come alive coming soon Yeah, so that's what I wanted to show you as I've said that hopefully comes because I'm dying to be able to play With this and I've spent already a lot of time trying to find cheap iPhones that are broken in just the specific Ways that will let me do motion capture better Allow me to buy it for cheap because I'm not paying a grand for a phone that I only want to use for facial capture Although if I was in a production space that would probably so be worth it. Just want to share that with you Speaking of sharing I would also like to do a giveaway So this is character creator for that we're looking at character creator 3 already exists And I would like to give one license away So if that is of interest you if you would like to get playing with this and why wouldn't you here's what you need to Do leave a comment down below tell me what you liked most about the features in character creator fall Which which parts look particularly cool to you? Leave that comment make sure you've liked the video and make sure you subscribe because in one week after this video goes live I will be going through the comments picking one at random And I release a video to say who's won the license and then we'll get details and I'll send you some software dude That's it. I've also been creating video So this is the second one I've done the other one is for I clone 8 Which is also work in progress if you'd like to see that video It'll be linked down below and also on screen somewhere so make sure you check that out as well But that brings us to the end Hopefully you thought this was interesting. I know I did thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one