AI Beta recommended CC/iClone pipeline (what tools to buy to join?)

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I saw the AI Beta with ComfyUI for rendering for CC and iClone. I am starting from the other end - I have been exploring ComfyUI and hit the lack of 3D scene blocking tools. I want to create a series of 5 minute episodes in a series with acting, facial expressions, scene composition, shots, previews etc, then do a slow final AI render. Hobby project for YouTube.

I am familiar with the space in general - I have used Unity and Omniverse for many years for timeline editing, mocap, lipsync etc; I have even built my own three.js pipeline doing screenplay to timeline assembly with AI - ChatGPT prompting etc. So I understand the various technologies well. (I am also an NVIDIA Omniverse Ambassador.)

Where I am after help is to understand which CC/iClone tools/bundles I would need if starting from scratch.

There is also the CC5 end of month special offer ending in a few days. How does that offer fit in as well?

My goal is to build up scenes, with timeline editing using animation clips, video mocap (not a suit), add expressions in the timeline, layer on top audio with lip sync etc (everything needed to create a film) then feed that into the AI pipeline render using the beta, what is the recommended list of tools/bundles I should purchase? I would basically be using CC/iClone as previsualization, then “final render” in AI (with trained Loras etc).

Prompt advice GREATLY appreciated with the CC5 offer ending in a few days.

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To my understanding CC5 characters will have much better integration into the Unreal MetaHuman ecosystem, so you can create animations in Unreal and import them into CC5 and iClone. This means you probably don’t need to get expensive Reallusion addons to create animations via phone cameras or videos but can do it in Unreal instead.

Be aware, you can only render like 5-10 seconds of video with the included AI models before you ran out of VRAM, even on large consumer cards like the RTX 4090. And the quality of the AI models isn’t that good for fine details. So making 5 minute videos with consistent quality will take a lot of effort and time and re-renders.

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@XOrdinary99

Hi…

A bundle of iClone 8 and CC4 (with FREE CC5) will be sufficient to get you started if your end goal is to use AI Render.

Of course, you may want to add additional content packs later, but this will depend on the output style you are looking for. For now, I would strongly recommend taking advantage of the offer for a FREE copy of CC5 before it ends.