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Epic's MetaHuman framework for creating 3D characters for games and VFX is out of early access. See its new features - and its new EULA.

Wednesday, June 4th, 2025

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

Discover 10 things you can do today to improve your character animation work with DreamWorks animator Adrien Liv's expert tips.

Tuesday, October 29th, 2024

New plugins make it easy to use NVIDIA's free AI-based facial animation system to create lip sync for iClone animations.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

New GPU-accelerated AI mocap add-on for iClone extracts facial motion data from video in real time. Works with consumer webcams.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

Check out the new features in the real-time puppet animation tool, including the option to edit replays.

Friday, August 11th, 2023

Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio now reflects emotions like joy and pain.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2022

Puppet animation tool gets new free-to-use Starter mode, available to anyone with an Adobe account.

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022

Pixar animator Eddy Okba reveals the subtle errors that even experienced artists often miss.

Tuesday, March 1st, 2022

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.

Saturday, August 7th, 2021

Free plugin linking Replica Studios' AI voice system to iClone turns text into voice-acted facial animation.

Thursday, July 15th, 2021