DAZ has the finest collection of talking animals to be found. Personally, I prize them.

I find iClone to be easy to work with, but their import tools are limited. I can import a DAZ cat, for example, keeping its bone structure and its animations, but losing its visemes. I can import the cat as a humanoid, giving it speech ability but losing its bone structure.

What is needed is a hybrid of these two. A custom iClone import filter. One that leaves the DAZ animal bone structure intact, able to use the DAZ animations, and adds iClone speech ability. I'm no programmer, or I would have done this some time ago. DAZ itself does not appreciate the value of their animals with visemes, and their future cannot be assured.

DAZ animals with visemes include:

Cats, Dogs, Horses, Pigs, Sheep, Lions, and a few others. The realism is high. Anyone considering cartooning would value these characters.

Anyone care to comment on this?