Reallusion Character Creator

Spec sheet

What it does

Character Creator generates, imports, customizes, rigs and prepares realistic or stylized humanoid characters for animation and digital-content pipelines.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Purpose

Character Creator generates, imports, and customizes stylized or realistic 3D character assets for use in animation and other 3D tools.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Free plan

NoRead 20 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Integrations

Listed integrations include GoZ for ZBrush, CC Tools for Blender, AutoSetup for Unreal Engine and Unity, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer, Marmoset Toolbag, Autodesk Maya and 3ds Max, and NVIDIA Omniverse USD workflow.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Support

The company directs customers with technical or workflow questions to Customer Service and offers a Feedback Tracker for product suggestions and bug reports.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Headquarters

Silicon Valley, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Activation connectivity

Internet access is required for installation and activation, and subscription editions require continuous connectivity while in use.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

ActorMIXER

ActorMIXER non-destructively blends whole characters, heads, bodies and individual facial features, and can randomize faces for variation.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Asset library

The application integrates Reallusion AI Smart Search across Content Store, Marketplace and ActorCore libraries containing more than 130,000 premium assets.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Auto-rigging

Enhanced AccuRIG automatically rigs humanoid and multi-mesh models, with customizable skeleton layouts and detailed skin-weight controls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Character compatibility

The product can import and characterize rigged bipeds, add facial rigs, and prepare characters for motion assets, lip-sync, motion capture, and animation controls in iClone.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Character design

It supports character shape and skin customization, hairstyle and clothing changes, humanoid asset customization, and character creation from photos.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Characterization

The software can characterize imported humans, creatures and props so they can use facial rigs, lip-sync, motion capture and iClone animation controls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Commercial use

The download page lists commercial use for the full edition and not for the trial edition.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Company headquarters

Reallusion lists San Jose, California as headquarters; Crunchbase describes Silicon Valley headquarters with R&D centers in Taiwan and offices or training centers in Germany and Japan.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Company legal name

Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Reallusion Inc., founded by Charles Chen and operating as a private for-profit company.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Company size and founding

LinkedIn lists 201–500 employees and a 2000 founding year for the San Jose company profile, while its description says the wider company was founded in 1993 and expanded to Silicon Valley in 2000.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Content restrictions

The EULA says CC base-model topology and rigs remain Reallusion property and restricts selling generated models through third-party marketplaces or using them in another character-generation system without permission.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Data handling

Reallusion says it collects user-provided information and site data such as anonymous statistics, domain names, and IP addresses, and does not sell personal information to third parties.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Developer extensibility

The developer wiki documents custom CC assets and publishing workflows; the same wiki separately lists an iClone 7 Python API, but no public Character Creator programming API is presented on the opened pages.Read 15 Oct 2026 · wiki.reallusion.com

Documentation

Reallusion provides an online CC4/CC5 manual, tutorials, knowledge-base articles and a developer wiki with content-creation guides.Read 15 Oct 2026 · manual.reallusion.com

Full-version output

The full version removes those trial export limits, supports 4K video and permits unrestricted FBX, OBJ and USD export according to the download page.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Funding or owner

Crunchbase labels Reallusion private and shows Charles Chen as founder, CEO and president; the opened profile exposes no verified funding total.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

HD character system

CC5 supports a 70,000-polygon subdivision character base with 2K, 4K and 8K material textures.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

License model

The software is proprietary: Reallusion retains copyright and source-code rights, and the EULA prohibits copying, sublicensing, reverse engineering and decompilation.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Limit: plugin-heavy interface

Creative Bloq found the interface clear but said it feels like a collection of plugins and that novice users may struggle with workflow organization.Read 15 Oct 2026 · creativebloq.com

Limit: pricing complaints

Trustpilot reviewers repeatedly complain about high costs, annual charges, expensive add-ons and perceived unfair pricing.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Limit: support and downloads

Trustpilot reviewers report difficult downloads, login or content-download failures and slow or ineffective customer support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Maker and founding

Reallusion's Taiwan company page says the company was founded in 1993 and established a U.S. Silicon Valley company in 2000.Read 30 Sep 2026 · blog-tw.reallusion.com

Operating system

Character Creator 5 is listed for 64-bit Windows 10 and 11, with minimum requirements including 16 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Pipeline integrations

Official add-ons cover ZBrush GoZ, Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity Mecanim, Substance Painter UDIM, Marvelous Designer, Marmoset Toolbag, Maya, 3ds Max and NVIDIA Omniverse USD workflows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Praise: ease of use

A verified G2 reviewer said beginners can create custom characters easily while experienced users can choose advanced tools.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: workflow speed

Creative Bloq rated CC5 highly for Unreal Engine support, auto-rigging and time-saving automated character-creation processes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · creativebloq.com

Rating on G2

4.7 out of 5 from 20 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Trustpilot

1.5 out of 5 from 60 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Release news

Reallusion officially launched Character Creator 5 on August 27, 2025, highlighting ActorMIXER and the new HD character system.Read 15 Oct 2026 · magazine.reallusion.com

Release notes

The CC5.1 release notes describe AI Studio features including character-sheet generation, talking avatars, image and video synthesis and prompt-assisted workflows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Rigging

AccuRIG integration automates humanoid rigging and includes hard-surface rigging, skin-weight adjustments, and customizable skeleton layouts.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Security and compliance

The opened official pages provide EULA and content-licensing terms but do not state SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or similar compliance certifications.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Self-hosting

The product is delivered as a Windows desktop application with Reallusion Hub/download installation; the opened official material describes no self-hosted server edition.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

System requirements

CC5 requires Windows 10 or 11, a 7th-generation Intel Core i5, 16GB RAM, an 8GB-VRAM GTX 10-series or Radeon RX5500 XT GPU, 30GB installation space and 200GB DDS-cache space at minimum.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Third-party processing

Reallusion says some user-created content may be processed by integrated third-party services or plugins to provide requested functionality, and that their data handling is governed by those providers.Read 30 Sep 2026 · reallusion.com

Trial limits

The 30-day trial limits video export to 30 seconds at 720p, watermarks video, limits image output to 800x600 and allows 30 FBX, OBJ or USD exports.Read 15 Oct 2026 · reallusion.com

Plans and prices

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