Reallusion Character Creator 5
App : A product you use directly
3D character creation with AI tools (face from photo, animation).
The pro reference for realistic characters outside of Unreal.
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What it does, concretely
Creating a realistic or stylized 3D character from scratch normally requires advanced skills in modeling, rigging, and texturing spread across multiple applications. Character Creator 5 centralizes all these steps in a single tool, from face and body design to export toward the main 3D engines and tools on the market.
In practice, you shape a humanoid character by adjusting face and body morphs, defining skin tones with a layered skin editor, dressing the character, and adding hair and accessories. Rigging is automated through AccuRIG, which handles multi-mesh models, hard surfaces, and biped creatures. The character can then be exported as FBX, OBJ, or USD to Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, Maya, 3ds Max, or NVIDIA Omniverse.
The tool targets professionals in film, games, and industrial visualization who need production-ready characters, as well as independent 3D artists looking for a complete pipeline without juggling multiple subscriptions. A free 30-day trial is available.
However, Character Creator 5 is only available on Windows and involves a notable learning curve. It is not suited for someone looking for a quick tool to generate illustrations or simple avatars without prior training.
What it offers
- ·Creation of realistic or stylized humanoid characters through adjustable face and body morphs.
- ·Automatic AccuRIG rigging for multi-mesh models, hard surfaces, and biped creatures.
- ·SkinGen layered skin editor to define skin tone, details, and textures (paid for the Premium version).
- ·Export to Blender, Unreal Engine, Unity, Maya, 3ds Max, and NVIDIA Omniverse in FBX, OBJ, or USD.
- ·Import and characterization of third-party biped models, including Daz and Mixamo characters.
- ·Character generation from a photo via the Headshot plugin (paid).
- ·Access to over 130,000 3D assets through the built-in AI Smart Search.
- ·AI rendering via AI Studio, integrated into the application.
In practice
- Price
- Paid · from 299 €
- Commercial use
- Commercial use: yes
- Available on
- windows
- Runs locally
- Yes
- FR interface
- No
Security and data
- Rating
- Security: nothing to flag
- Your data
- Data stays local
- Maintenance
- Active
Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 January 2015