Main Menu - Animation

The Animation menu on the main menu bar contains commands related to the motions and animations of the characters, props and the entire project.

ClosedCreate Script

Contains a submenu for creating voice scripts for the selected character.

  • Record Voice: Directly records a voice to create a voice script for the character.
  • Text-To-Speech: Converts the desired text into a voice script for the character.
  • Wave File: Loads an audio file (*.wav, *.mp3) as the voice script for the character.
  • AccuLips: Use this command to have the character talk with AccuLips feature to ensure the best lip-sync result.
ClosedFace Puppet

Opens the Face Puppet panel for manually creating facial expressions clips of the selected character.

ClosedFace Key

Opens the Face Key panel for manually creating facial expressions keys of the selected character.

Closed Motion Puppet

Opens the Motion Puppet panel to record motions from templates to the currently selected character.

Closed Direct Puppet

Opens the Direct Puppet panel for simultaneously moving and recording the character's body to generate motions.

Closed Edit Motion Layer (N)

Opens the Edit Motion Layer panel for adding motion layer keys to an existing motion.

Closed Reach Target

Opens the Reach Target panel to add or release reach keys for the character's neck, hip and limbs.

ClosedProp Puppet

Opens the Prop Puppet panel for simultaneously moving and recording the animations of a prop.

Closed Edit Animation Layer

Opens the Edit Motion Layer panel for adding animation layer keys to an existing animation of a prop.

Closed Morph Animation

Opens the Morph Animator panel for adding keys of character motions with morphing sliders.

ClosedFlatten All Motion with Constraint

This command flattens all Layer Keys and Constrain Keys into the motion clip. These keys will also be removed afterwards.

Closed Auto Motion Alignment

This item contains three modes: No Alignment, Align Position Only and Align Position and Direction.

Closed Apply Gesture Options

Contains a sub-menu for applying hand gesture clips to character's hands.

  • Left Hand: Apply the hand gesture clips to character's left hand.
  • Right Hand: Apply the hand gesture clips to character's right hand.
  • Both: Apply the hand gesture clips to character's both hands.
ClosedClip Auto Extend

When this command is activated, iClone will extend previous clip in order to include newly added key.

Closed Expression Clip Auto Crop

When you overlap an Expression Clip to an existing one, the original one will be cut out a range to fit in the new expression clip. This feature ensures the character returns to the original expression after the new clip finishes.

Closed Rotation Order

It can be used to modify the Euler rotational order of an object.

Closed Remove Object Animation

This command removes all animations of the currently selected objects.

Closed Remove Scene Animation


Removes all animations in the current project. You can choose to keep the statuses of all animation of the first frame, last frame or current frame.

Closed Create iMD Cache

Executes this command to show the Create iMD Cache panel for pre-retargeting the desired actors and iMD files and save the results to the cache file.

You can click the Preference... button on the top of the panel to display the Cache section for finding or deleting the cache file.

The benefits are:

  • When you apply any characters ever cached, the cached retargeting result will be instantly applied again to diminish the processing time.
  • As long as the cache file exists, the retargeting results can be applied to any other project.