
Simply put, Motion Director is a unique tool for animators to create motions, layout scenes, and control single or multiple characters in a hybrid gameplay experience. These new motion creation features are helpful for ultimate player control, AI compatibility, and the ability to simulate multiple characters at the same time. Accomplishing simple human movement normally requires many steps, and Motion Director is an intuitive way to make motion control interactive, highly natural, intuitive, and expandable with behaviors and triggers. Motion Director is a powerful feature inside iClone 8 that exemplifies the Play2Animate philosophy of Reallusion.

Features cover speed changes, natural turns, smooth transitions, and blended trigger motions it works both for piloting protagonists and automating NPC actions. Through years of development, iClone 8 now introduces an innovative solution for character motions using game-like controls. In 2019, Reallusion began researching how game companies create smooth and natural interactive character experiences. This logic is now built-in with intuitive simplicity in iClone for the best of both gaming and animation worlds. Meanwhile, in the gaming world, players are naturally skilled with the capability to steer the character’s motion, trigger different fighting skills, and interact with the environment. Even animating simple walks and turns requires tedious work. Animators need to know how to properly align motions, smoothly blend them together, and have proper directional control.

Locomotion animations are known to be tasking and complex.
