{"id":24732,"date":"2026-06-25T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=24732"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:40:18","slug":"iclone-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/iclone-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: iClone Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting. iClone goes free. Sort of. The new iClone Personal<\/a> appears to be almost<\/em> uncrippled. It never times out, and is a perpetual freebie.<\/p>\n

“It has the complete toolset of the paid edition of iClone [currently 8.78], has the same render resolutions, and can be used on commercial projects.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What you can’t do with Personal includes…<\/p>\n

    — exporting to “3D software or game engines” via FBX or OBJ etc, more than 30 times.
\n    — local AI rendering via the built-in ‘AI Studio’ (need access to their Cloud, pay $$$s for credits).
\n    — “purchase Content in Reallusion Content Store & Marketplace”.
\n    — their Character Creator and several advanced animation packages are only included as Trial versions. <\/p>\n

Note also that the comparison table has no mention of the vital AccuLIPS<\/a> plugin at all — it lip-syncs your character to an audio file. I have to assume it’s included in none of the packages, and it’s just a paid plugin.<\/p>\n

Some further questions that arise: Will your Character Creator-made free characters all stop working when the CC trial expires? Will Personal users at least be able to download freebies from Reallusion’s free content store, or will getting a freebie count as a “purchase” (not allowed for Personal users). Will it ‘stick’ at 8.7, when 9 comes out?<\/p>\n

Sign-up\/account\/Internet needed to get it and also to activate it. Windows 10 or higher (only). <\/p>\n

Nice to have to free and legit. But your problem is going to be getting all the content you need for a project. In that sense, DAZ 4.x is by far the better free choice, giving access to a vast content ecosystem. Ditto Poser 12 (at just $29<\/a>), which has a somewhat friendlier UI than DAZ and also has all the animation tools you need built-in.<\/p>\n

That said, iClone 8 is slick, built for animation, and for some users the UI’s learning-curve will be a lot easier than learning DAZ + plugins for animation. If all you need is block-out some stock human figures for a storyboard, with some motion on them, it might be for you.<\/p>\n

So… I went to get it, with the old login details that were still valid about a year ago. But now I get… “Your password does not meet our minimum security standards”. And then I got bounced back to the main page. Oh well. Maybe Personal is not for me, then. They blew the chance to get me back into iClone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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