iClone vs Wick Editor

iClone is a Windows application for character rigging and real-time capture, including facial tracking. It supports Windows 10 and Windows 11 and exports FBX, OBJ, ABC, and USD files. The listed capabilities do not include 2D animation, 3D modeling, motion graphics, or cloud collaboration. iClone uses a freemium model with a Free Personal Edition priced at free, with no time limit and 30 3D exports. The iClone 365 and iClone 8 plans each list 2,000+ free assets, but their prices are not provided. Capture sources are both, and the product is intended for users working with rigged characters and captured motion on Windows. The maker is headquartered in Hsintien, New Taipei City, Taiwan, and was founded in 1993.

Wick Editor is a free, open-source tool for making games, animations and other multimedia projects in a web editor. Its drawing tools include a brush, pencil, eraser, shapes, line, path cursor and text. For animation, it provides onion skinning, timeline frames, playback preview and zoom controls; its welcome screen also lists a code editor. Exports include HTML,.wickobj, MP4, GIF, PNG image sequences and SVG. A help post also lists WAV and interactive HTML or ZIP exports. The project documents desktop builds for Mac, Windows and Linux, and downloadable apps have been released for iPhone and Android. The project is licensed under GNU GPL version 3. Tutorials cover animation, interactive scripting and keyboard interactions. Wick Editor is available on web and listed mobile and desktop platforms. Its plan costs nothing, and there is no free trial.