Part 5: Animation and Avatar Creation

With MakeHuman and Blender, we’ll learn to create customized avatars and integrate animations. The workflow covers avatar creation in MakeHuman, rigging in Mixamo, and refining and animating the model in Blender. Finally, we’ll bring the avatar into CLO3D or Style3D for further enhancements.

Important: We are currently updating the tutorials. Please check back on May 5th, 2025.

Objective

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2.1 Learning animation with DazStudio, CLO3D, Style3D and Blender

2.2 Avatar Creation

2.3 Combining Animation in blender

2.4 Rendering animation in CLO3D and blender.

Tutorials

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Introduction

Assignment 5.1 : Introduction to animation

In assignment 5.1 we will learn the setting up of animation file in CLO3D. Export file in mixamo and back to CLO3D for the rendering of animation.
Tutorial Video ( Mixamo) (for CLO3D version 2024 and above): Video

Tutorial video (FBX – Old version): Click here
*The black skin you see is software issue specific to mac in a version. Most probabily you will not see this issue.

Submissions Folder: Click here
Other assets file: not required
Assignment 5.2 : Animation in CLO3D Revision

In assignment 5.1 we will learn the setting up of animation file in CLO3D. Export file in mixamo and back to CLO3D for the rendering of animation.
Tutorial Video ( Mixamo) (for CLO3D version 2024 and above): Video

Tutorial video (FBX – Old version): Click here
*The black skin you see is software issue specific to mac in a version. Most probabily you will not see this issue.

Submissions Folder: Click here
Other assets file: not required

Working with Daz

Assignment 5.3 : Introduction to DazStudio
Assignment 5.4 : Working with pose in DazStuio
Assignment 5.5: Exporting Animation from DazStudio
Assignment 5.6: Working with Skin Texture

In this assignment, we will learn how to create animation using an animated avatar from DazStudio or MakeHuman. We will import our animated files to CLO3D and then export it with the point cache method to blender. The point cache method preserves all the textures so that you don’t have to build textures in a blender.

Tutorial: Click Here
Submissions Folder: Click here
Other assets file: Fabric texture ( Click Here) and Normal Map ( Click Here)

Assignment 5.3 : Combining Animation with blender
Assignment 5.4: Combining Animation with DazStudio [updated]
Assignment 5.5: Working on Animation without avatar (.pointcache method) [updated]

In this assignment, we will learn how to create animation using an animated avatar from DazStudio or MakeHuman. We will import our animated files to CLO3D and then export it with the point cache method to blender. The point cache method preserves all the textures so that you don’t have to build textures in a blender.

Tutorial: Click Here
Submissions Folder: Click here
Other assets file: Fabric texture ( Click Here) and Normal Map ( Click Here)
Assignment 5.6: Working on Animation with avatar (.alembic method) [updated]

In this assignment, we will learn how to create animation using wind property. We will use the .alembic method to export our cloth. In the blender, we will develop our textures from scratch.

Tutorial: Click Here
Submissions Folder: Click here
Other assets file: Fabric texture ( Click Here) and Normal Map ( Click Here)
Assignment 5.7: Working on Animation with avatar skin texture (.fbx + .alembic method) [updated]

In this assignment, we will learn how to create animation keeping the texture of the skin. We will export our animation file as .alembic and will overlay the exported cloth animation file from CLO3D to blender as .alembic.

Tutorial: Click Here
Submissions Folder: Click here
Other assets file: Fabric texture ( Click Here) and Normal Map ( Click Here)
Assignment 5.8: Working on Animation with avatar (.alembic method) [updated]

In this assignment, we will learn one of the easiest and safe methods of exporting animation files from CLO3D to blender. While exporting we do not get any texture of the avatar or the garments. We will build the textures from scratch in the blender.

Tutorial: Click Here
Submissions Folder: Click here
Other assets file: Fabric texture ( Click Here) and Normal Map ( Click Here)