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About Reallusion
Reallusion, creator of award-winning consumer software and kernel technologies for facial animation and real-time moviemaking is dedicated to advancing the accessibility of content creation tools for users of all skill levels.

Emphasizing ease of use and powerful performance, Reallusion connects consumers to pro-level 3D animation, avatar creation and filmmaking technology for video, streaming media, web and handheld devices.

Reallusion, a privately-held company has offices in Silicon Valley and Taipei, Taiwan with established online and worldwide retail distribution in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

Reallusion’s current product offerings include:

iClone 3 Standard Edition & iClone 3 PRO Edition,

iClone 3 is the world's leading 3D character animation tool designed to bring the power of 3D animation to the masses. iClone delivers fast facial animation, character generation, visual effect and scene production tools for creating next-generation machinima movies inside iClone’s 3D real-time rendering environment. Connect your 3D Studio Max, Maya or Google SketchUp workflow to iClone and evolve model creation and animation with iClone’s intuitive interface. iClone users experience on-demand access to a rich bank of content available from Reallusion, user-generated libraries or through Reallusion’s partnership with Google delivering over 200,000 free 3D models to iClone through the Google 3D Warehouse. iClone’s 3D real-time filmmaking is blasting machinima beyond the game.

CrazyTalk Standard Edition & CrazyTalk Pro Edition,

CrazyTalk 5 adds hands-on movie animation interactivity with the power to puppet facial expressions, lip-sync, and animation in real-time. With the software, novices and experienced users can turn photos into life-like digital puppet performances for films, web videos, podcasts, blogs, machinima and classroom projects. The technology in CrazyTalk is much like the tools used in Hollywood films, children’s television and major brand commercials to create live, talking characters and animals.

CrazyTalk for Skype,

The most popular Skype Certified Premium Extra application extends virtual characters into VoIP as real-time expressive talking avatars powered by Reallusion's voice animation engine. The product further enriches users’ P2P instant messaging experience with live desktop sharing and full media sharing while talking on Skype.

FaceFilter Studio 2,

The revolutionary facial beautification technology allows users to enhance facial images and adjust facial expressions in digital photos. Now anyone can achieve professional results with 5 simple steps. Available for traditional digital cameras, printers, and camera phones.

In addition, Reallusion’s products can be found bundled with a variety of digital imaging devices and handheld communication products.

Reallusion products are used to provide innovative solutions for image enhancement, intelligent human interaction, and multimedia messaging in applications as diverse as professional photo studios, distance learning, video arcade games and commercial content.

Reallusion’s visual design capabilities and patented technologies, such as Reallusion's smart facial detection technology, scalable kernel and 3D engine, continue to extend Reallusion’s business scope, allowing customers to add innovation to their personal creativity, multimedia design, 3D real-time production and mobile communications.
Reallusion/oneNetworkDirect Outsourced e-Commerce Solutions
Hundreds of millions of shoppers worldwide have two things in common; they are using computers and they NEED software to run them. With broadband penetration and demand for software at an all time high, consumers are increasingly demanding instant access to software products, downloaded right to their desktops. From hobby and entertainment, to productivity and enterprise level software, billions of dollars are spent on software products that enable the use of PC's and Mac's.
oneNetworkDirect is part of the Digital River family of companies - a group of e-commerce and e-marketing experts committed to providing companies big and small with everything they need to successfully build, manage and grow profitable online businesses on a worldwide basis. Some of the world's leading multi-national companies use Digital River's portfolio of comprehensive e-commerce technology, tools and services to drive online results for the Internet's biggest brands. Founded in 1994, Digital River (NASDAQ: DRIV) is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with offices located across the United States, Europe and the Asia Pacific.
Reallusion iClone3 - 3D Realtime Filmaking
iClone 3 Standard Edition ,

iClone 3 PRO Edition ,

iClone 3 is the world's leading 3D character animation tool designed to bring the power of 3D animation to the masses. iClone delivers fast facial animation, character generation, visual effect and scene production tools for creating next-generation machinima movies inside iClone’s 3D real-time rendering environment. Connect your 3D Studio Max, Maya or Google SketchUp workflow to iClone and evolve model creation and animation with iClone’s intuitive interface. iClone users experience on-demand access to a rich bank of content available from Reallusion, user-generated libraries or through Reallusion’s partnership with Google delivering over 200,000 free 3D models to iClone through the Google 3D Warehouse. iClone’s 3D real-time filmmaking is blasting machinima beyond the game.

Production Environment:
- New - Interactive Play-to-Create movie directing mode.
- New - Complete scene and actor editing mode.
- New - Collapsible user interface and full screen operation.
- New - Scene Manager for total project asset list and access.
- New - In-screen object editing, faster object transformation, multiple select, model copy, and save to library.
- New - Record live footage inside iClone3 as Action Captures.
- New - Multiple actor selection and management tool.
- v3.1 New - iClone BackStage live access allows users to try content interactively inside 3D scenes before you buy.
Casting & Actor Style:
- New G3 Avatar – fast performance and higher quality with fine texture detail.
- Photo-to-3D face fitting for generating custom actors.
- Design custom actor faces with facial feature morphing.
- Define faces with Normal Maps and multiple textures for aging and skin texture.
- Customizable 3D actor face shape morphing including eyes, teeth and skin color.
- v3.1 New - CloneBone - attach parts to CloneBone to create any character styles.
- CloneCloth - Create any Custom actor clothing to cut and design.
- New Persona – Apply personality and direct your target actor by live keyboard control (W,S,A,D keys for actor puppeteering).
Motion & Interactivity:
- New - Live puppeteering controls actors and vehicles with hotkeys and right-click action menu.
- New - Multi-actor dialog timeline for actor conversations.
- New - Create 3D talking heads with CrazyTalk5 Talking Script files (CTS).
- New - Select, pose and animate actors with layered motion editing.
- New - Camera and actor follow with look-at constraint.
- New - DramaScript open source for writing actor and object interactivity.
- New - Instant prop interaction with iProp Helpers.
Props & Scenes:
- New - Load and customize props, terrain, sky, grass and water.
- New - Automatic real-time Flying Surface simulation with FLEX technology.
- New - Water features ripple movement with reflection and refraction.
- New - Landscape designer adds trees, flowers, plants and grass to any terrain.
- New - iClone3 atmosphere can be made with 3D scene, sky, light, fog and weather particle settings.
- New - Load 2D photos as image layers and backgrounds.
Camera & Lighting:
- New - Add multiple cameras to scenes with live view switching.
- New - Live camera recording using fly, walk and follow cameras with videogame-like hotkey and mouse-look interaction.
- New - Real-time advanced camera effects including depth of field and lens animation.
- Camera keyframe smoothing for automatic camera correction.
- New - Lighting system with directional, point and spotlight.
- Quick track editing for cameras, lights and their attributes.
Special Effects:
- Particle system special effects for fog, fire, smoke and more.
- Actor and object particle system linkage for attached effects.
- Material effects for glow, reflection, bump, opacity, specular, normal and diffuse.
- New - Advanced material effects - reflection & refraction.
- Instantly spice up your movie with music and soundFX tracks.
- Audio blending with fade in, fade out, and volume settings.
- v3.1 New - Material animation effects include bump, glow, opacity fade and color animation.
- v3.1 New - Spring Dynamics for natural movement of an actor, hair, accessories and props.
Rendering & Output:
- Multiple shader selection for performance enhancing preview options.
- Real-time preview, in and out markers and playback looping.
- Select and render previewing for isolated area rendering.
- High speed rendering for fast footage production.
- Flexible output for sharing or post-production (HD & DVD video, AVI, WMV, Flash, MPEG-4).
- v3.1 New - Export the iWidget Avatar with transparent background and share it with the WidgetMe service.
- Export your creation as a flash-based widget and publish it to social sites or personal home page.
BackStage:
- v3.1 New - Preview hundreds of models and motions for free inside your iClone3 scene.
- v3.1 New - Easy Search and Preview features to find what you are looking for.
- v3.1 New - Manage your purchases and downloads with the Online Inventory System.
- v3.1 New - Audition Actors and get itfast with Live Activation.
- v3.1 New - Marketplace for Certified Content Developers (CCD) will debut in Q1 2008.
Advanced Timeline Editor - PRO Only:
- New - Full Avatar Track Management for multi-actor dialog and sophisticated motion editing.
- New - Play-to-Create Live Motion Recording.
- New - Complete motion editing with advanced Timeline Motion Tracks.
- New - Flexible Clip Collection which allows you to precisely define the animation output range and build new libraries of animation assets.
- New - Advanced Multiple Camera Timeline System.
- New - Full featured Lighting System and Timeline Control.
- New - Two additional sound tracks allow users to easily add SoundFX to movies with dedicated music and effect tracks.
- v3.1 New - Material key frame animation with Timeline Material Track.
FaceFilter Studio 2.0 by Reallusion
FaceFilter Studio 2,

The revolutionary facial beautification technology allows users to enhance facial images and adjust facial expressions in digital photos. Now anyone can achieve professional results with 5 simple steps. Available for traditional digital cameras, printers, and camera phones.

The latest release from Reallusion, FaceFilter Studio 2.0, includes many powerfully smart features making FaceFilter Studio an indispensable must have photo editor for both novice & advanced users.
Utilizing Reallusion's fully automated 3D facial mapping technology, FaceFilter Studio now not only has the ability to change and enhance facial expressions, but also offers new features including: muscle based morphing; editable facial mask; skin filtration; smart color correction; 1-click red eye removal and instant photo-sticker printing. FaceFilter Studio has the ability to truly deliver perfect photos by enabling anyone to enhance expressions, remove common skin blemishes, smooth wrinkles, sharpen and improve facial structure, correct color balance and more.

New - The powerful image color correction function, Smart Portrait, auto-detects human face and skin color to create vibrant colorful photos from imperfectly lit images such as over/under exposed, taken with a low quality camera or washed due to backlighting.

New - Red-eye often seen in flash photography due to reflection of the retina can quickly and easily be removed with a single click with the new function of automatic red-eye reduction. This new function can simultaneously find red eyes on multiple faces of your photos. Also it is easy to change eye color to any color you desire.

New - Supports high resolution image rendering up to 12 Mega pixels for professional camera users and prints fine quality.

In addition to a library of facial expression templates, FaceFilter Studio provides free-form muscle level tuning tools that allow you to tweak 16 different muscle areas on the face to produce natural/subtle expression changes, such as raising inner brow to look sympathetic, or raising mouth edge to increase the curve of a smile.

Fine tune existing expression templates and save in your own custom template folder. Build your own tool box without the need to tune from scratch.

High resolution facial mesh; keeps the smooth facial contours of your images without causing any distortion when adjusting facial features.

Skin enhancement; now you can erase wrinkles, whiten teeth, smooth skin, change skin tone easily with the extensive skin filtration tools.

Lighting; reduce washed-out/overexposure, brighten shadowed areas, and remove shine or gloss on the face. Make every face a glamorous image with vibrant, clean and healthy skin.

FEATURES:

Natural Expression Enhancement:
FaceFilter Studio's proprietary 3D muscle-based photo morphing technology lets you fine-tune facial expressions naturally such as adding a smile, widening eyes or raising an eyebrow.
- Remove bad expressions
- Change facial expression
- Open and widen eyes
- Adjust head proportion & width
- Slim/Fatten face
- Revamp & Beautify faces
- Improve balance
Skin Enriching Technology:
Enhance the skins appearance with subtle color adjustment to improve skin color, add a suntan or whiten. Improve skin's complexion and smooth the texture by reducing wrinkles, lines or rough skin.
- Adjust skin color
- Hide skin flaws such as spots, freckles, moles, birthmarks and acne
- Eliminate wrinkles, lines or rough skin
- Remove oily skin & glossy reflections
- Reduce dark lines around the eyes
Powerfully Smart Photo Color Correction:
Automatically improve the color, contrast, and dynamic range of any image.
- Auto-detect human face and skin color to create vibrant colorful photos
- Improve color balance
- Global color adjustment
- Automatic Red-eye reduction
- Fix over/under exposure
- Enhance backlit/washed-out
Simple, yet powerful 5 step automated process:
Get superior results faster than any other photo editor! Automatic facial feature mapping automates and greatly simplifies the demanding editing process.
- 5-step process
- Import high-resolution photos up to 12 Mega pixels in size for editing
- Print instant photo-stickers with various mood expressions
- Automatic facial feature recognition
- Blended layers for easy editing
- Copy/Paste to support external applications
- Wide range of export formats: .JPG, .GIF, .BMP

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Reallusion, creator of award-winning consumer software and kernel technologies for facial animation and real-time moviemaking is dedicated to advancing the accessibility of content creation tools for users of all skill levels. Emphasizing ease of use and powerful performance, Reallusion connects consumers to pro-level 3D animation, avatar creation and filmmaking technology for video, streaming media, web and handheld devices. Reallusion, a privately-held company has offices in Silicon Valley and Taipei, Taiwan with established online and worldwide retail distribution in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.