Can I do basic sprite animation in iClone?

[flower_fan]

I’d like to have a character that is not human , a robot, and have a sprite animation facial expressions inside iClone. Is that possible ? How I can achieve that ?

[4u2ges]

@flower_fan

Is that possible ?

There is no “easy” GUI interface to animate sprites, but it can be simulated with UV tiling and offset.

In your case you set a static Tiling as U=0.5 and V=0.25 for the Base Color image. I suppose there is a separate material for eyes (if there is a separate material for each eye, then you have to divide U further).
And then animate at the timeline with UV offset. Each key got to have a “Step” type Transition Curve preset.

A quick video a made for someone who asked similar question a couple of years back.

UV slide

[AutoDidact]

@flower_fan

I’d like to have a character that is not human , a robot, and have a sprite animation facial expressions inside iClone. Is that possible ? How I can achieve that ?

You should really consider Cartoon Animator for something like this.

[flower_fan]

thanks for this workflow! definitely a good path to follow and experiment further with it.

[flower_fan]

I thought about it. How would the workflow be to bring it and animate it in iClone?