Other interesting features include Talking Styles, a new system of presets matching lip sync animation to different rates and styles of speech, including whispering, mumbling, yelling and singing. The mouth shapes it generates are affected both by the preceding and following phoneme, resulting in a total of 240 possible phoneme combinations, with their own transition curves. Rather than simply breaking speech down into phonemes, its individual sound-units, and matching them to corresponding visemes, or facial shapes, AccuLips uses a phoneme pair system. The transcript is based on a 200,000-word dictionary – only English is supported in the 7.9 release – which users can customise themselves, adding new words and their corresponding mouth shapes.įacial animation modified by phoneme pairs and speech styles

It processes audio recordings of speech, automatically generating both facial animation and a written transcript that can be edited manually to tailor the animation further. New features in the release include AccuLips, a new lip sync technology that provides “smoother and more accurate results” than iClone’s previous lip sync system. New AccuLips technology provides more accurate automatic lip-sync animation

IClone also now supports hairstyles and facial hair created using the new Smart Hair system introduced in Character Creator 3.4, the latest version of Reallusion’s character generator, which also shipped yesterday. The update focuses on facial animation, introducing new lip-sync system AccuLips, and Expression Plus, a new set of scan-based facial blendshapes and improving facial motion capture via new iPhones. Reallusion has released iClone 7.9, the latest free update to its real-time character animation software.

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