SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Reallusion, the leader in 3D character creation software, announced the release of Headshot 3 for Character Creator 5 (CC5), the industry's most streamlined solution for creating professional-grade digital doubles. Designed to bridge the gap between 2D reference and production-ready 3D characters, this next-generation plugin introduces a suite of powerful features, including proprietary AI image-to-3D reconstruction, spline-based head shaping, and advanced texture generation.
To celebrate the launch, Reallusion is offering an Early Bird special, allowing users to secure Headshot 3 at a significantly discounted rate from now until May 31st, 2026.
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The Power of Proprietary AI: High Precision & Worldwide Diversity
Headshot 3 represents a massive leap in digital identity. Reallusion has developed a proprietary AI model specifically for accurate image-to-3D head reconstruction. Trained on a vast dataset of high-resolution facial scans, this model interprets facial landmarks, depth cues, and subtle anatomical features from 2D images with unprecedented clarity.
Complementing this technology, Facial Feature Presets add essential depth structure and help capture distinctive details that AI may not fully detect from front-facing images alone. This powerful combination of AI reconstruction and precision presets enables highly accurate digital doubles while supporting diverse ethnicities and all age groups, ensuring each digital human faithfully reflects its real-world counterpart.
Revolutionary Prompt-to-Image: Make Every Photo a Perfect Shot
In addition to importing custom photos, Headshot 3 introduces a groundbreaking AI Image Generator powered by Google Nano Banana Pro. This integration enables artists to generate high-quality, front-facing images from simple text prompts or transform their own photos into polished, production-ready results. It also provides precise references for facial profiles and body proportions, ensuring an accurate overall likeness.
The AI further refines your source imagery by automatically adjusting facial expressions to a neutral look, correcting camera angles for a straight-on view, balancing lighting, removing stray hairs, and enhancing resolution up to 4K—providing a flawless foundation for sharper facial texture generation.
Ultimate Shape Refinements & Texture Enhancements
To ensure the digital double matches the subject in physical 3D space, Headshot 3 offers advanced refinement tools that address real-world photography challenges:
- Spline-Based Mesh Shaping: Bezier curves trace facial contours with surgical precision. A key innovation is the fully independent front and side adjustments—planar front morphs never alter the depth of side profiles, and vice-versa. This system is purpose-built for complex anatomy such as double eyelids, deep-set eye sockets, or distinct nasolabial folds, all while maintaining perfect CC topology for optimized animation.
- Intuitive 3D Sculpt Morph System: Optimized for Character Creator 5, this system allows artists to hover over a control region and adjust the mesh shape using directional mouse movements. This eliminates the need to manually locate specific sliders, streamlining the sculpting process.
- Post-Lens Correction: To bridge the gap between photography and 3D modeling, the new Face Plane Perspective Slider quickly corrects fisheye distortion common in smartphone photos, restoring accurate physical proportions.
- Blend Mask Editing: Achieve seamless integration between generated facial textures and the underlying skin base. Using the mask brush or prebuilt templates, artists can easily remove unwanted elements projected from the source photo—such as shadows, hair, eyelashes, scars, or lip lines—resulting in a clean and cohesive head model.
- De-lighting & Skin Redness: The de-lighting feature removes uneven shadows to produce clean albedo textures, while the skin redness tool restores a natural, healthy tone by correcting color imbalances.
- Primary & Secondary Normal Generation: Artists now have granular control over skin details. The generator extracts two levels of detail: Primary for broader features like muscle definition and deep wrinkles, and Secondary for micro-details such as pores and fine lines.
Complete Character Integration
Headshot 3 goes beyond the head to create a Full-Body Digital Double. By utilizing full-body reference photos, the AI automatically generates a matching body shape to complement the character's face. Whether the subject is a child, an athlete, or an elderly individual, the tool provides an instant, cohesive character build that is fully rigged and ready for animation within the Character Creator 5 ecosystem.
Ultra Value Bonus — Headshot Morph 1400+
As an exclusive launch incentive, every Headshot 3 purchase includes the Headshot Morph 1400+ Pack ($99 value) for free. Previously, Headshot Morph 1000+ established itself as the world's most comprehensive facial morph system, designed to achieve the professional detail of high-end 3D scan models.
Headshot Morph 1400+ builds on this foundation with expanded benefits for Headshot 3, adding CC5 HD workflow support, new preset sliders for more precise facial construction, and enhanced sculpt morphs for a more intuitive and flexible post-adjustment experience.
Early Bird Availability
Headshot 3 is available now as a powerful addition to the Character Creator 5 workflow. Professionals and enthusiasts alike are encouraged to take advantage of the Early Bird Offer, which runs until May 31st, 2026. This limited-time promotion provides the best value for artists looking to integrate high-efficiency digital double creation into their production pipelines.
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Reallusion Redefines Digital Double Creation with the Launch of Headshot 3 for Character Creator 5
Company highlights double-digit SaaS growth, global expansion, and launch of its new agentic AI platform as industry leaders gather in Orlando
BOSTON, April 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Duck Creek Technologies, the intelligent core of insurance, today kicks off Formation '26: Agents of Innovation, its flagship user conference, as the company builds strong momentum in the first half of fiscal 2026, marked by double-digit year-over-year SaaS ARR growth fueled by new logos and expansion across its global customer base.
Duck Creek's strong start to fiscal 2026 reflects this demand, with double-digit new customer wins and existing customer expansions across its core, specialty, and AI-powered solutions. Adoption of Duck Creek's intelligent cloud continues to scale globally. Insurers are selecting Duck Creek for its enterprise depth including policy, billing, claims, rating, loss control, reinsurance, distribution management, and payments solutions to operate faster, more accurately, and maintain regulatory compliance.
"We are expanding our leadership in insurance technology with more than 370 customers globally. Including 33 of the top 50 North American insurers," said Hardeep Gulati, Chief Executive Officer of Duck Creek. "Insurers modernizing their core systems are looking for more from their technology. They need a trusted partner like Duck Creek with proven enterprise scale and speed-to-value to help them drive profitable impact and growth. At Formation, we are excited to announce our new agentic platform that will help further improve the combined ratios for insurers with more than $150B in premium flowing through Duck Creek annually."
Formation '26 will bring together more than 800 insurance professionals, ecosystem partners, and industry leaders to explore how technology is transforming the insurance lifecycle. The event underscores growing market demand for intelligent, cloud-native platforms that enable insurers to accelerate cloud migration, product development, and automate core insurance workflows to accelerate decision-making and improve operational agility. A highlight of the event will be Duck Creek unveiling its agentic AI platform and showcasing live demonstrations of agentic applications and agents.
Formation '26 will feature a distinguished lineup of guest speakers joining Gulati during his keynote, including Stephen Lord, Global CIO of AXIS Capital, and Monti Saroya, Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Flagship Fund at Vista Equity Partners. Together, they will share perspectives on large-scale transformation, AI adoption, and the future of agentic insurance.
The conference will also include a customer panel moderated by Chief Operating Officer Chris McCloskey, featuring leaders from Core Specialty, Europ Assistance, and Arbella Insurance, who will discuss their transformation journeys and business outcomes achieved through modern core systems. An analyst panel moderated by SVP of Sales William Magowan will bring together experts from AM Best, Celent, and Datos Insights to provide an external view on market trends and innovation benchmarks.
Customer Momentum
- Millers Mutual Insurance advanced its modernization strategy with Duck Creek OnDemand, implementing Policy, Billing, and Reinsurance Clarity to modernize its core systems and support continued growth in the multifamily housing insurance market.
- Anchor Group Management Inc. partnered with Duck Creek to modernize its insurance payments infrastructure, enabling more streamlined billing processes and improved digital payment experiences for policyholders.
- Frankenmuth Insurance adopted Duck Creek OnDemand Distribution Management to transform how it manages agencies and producers, increasing visibility, improving operational efficiency, and strengthening collaboration across its distribution network.
- Indigo Insurance turned to Duck Creek OnDemand to accelerate its modernization strategy and support rapid growth, gaining a scalable cloud-based core platform designed to bring new products to market faster.
- Encova Insurance went live on an upgraded Duck Creek OnDemand Distribution Management system, unifying agency operations across lines of business, streamlining onboarding, and improving the overall agent experience.
- New Zealand's Medical Assurance Society (MAS) selected Duck Creek's full suite of core solutions delivered via OnDemand to modernize its general insurance business, enhance member experiences, and support a broader digital and data-driven transformation.
- Country-Wide Insurance selected Duck Creek Clarity to strengthen its data and analytics capabilities, enabling real-time insights and preparing for its upcoming OnDemand go-live with Active Delivery.
- Fortegra selected Duck Creek Reinsurance and Duck Creek Clarity to modernize financial operations, improve portfolio transparency, and support continued growth across products, geographies, and distribution models.
- Duck Creek secured more than a dozen additional new customer engagements across commercial specialty and personal lines.
Industry Recognition
About Duck Creek
Duck Creek is the intelligent core that leading insurers choose to build on. Purpose-built for property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance, Duck Creek unifies the full insurance lifecycle on a single platform with one data foundation. As an agentic platform, it connects intelligence across underwriting, policy, billing, claims, and payments workflows where decisions are made and compliance is non-negotiable. Duck Creek enables carriers to launch products faster, adapt quickly to change, and grow with precision and confidence. Solutions are available individually or as a full suite via Duck Creek OnDemand. Visit www.duckcreek.com and follow Duck Creek on LinkedIn and X.
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Duck Creek Kicks Off Formation '26 as Strong Fiscal Momentum Signals Accelerating Demand for its Intelligent Core Insurance Platform
