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iClone/DAZ Dual Format - Genesis Hiro and Aiko: Intro and Demonstration

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Nov 292012

I applaud the technology and cooperation between DAZ and Reallusion in bringing the Genesis generation of characters to both platforms. This type of partnership should be a win-win situation for creators and tool developers. The two companies deserve thanks from those of us who work on both platforms. However, having said that, I must also state that these are two of the ugliest characters I have ever seen. Frighteningly ugly! Perhaps the demo was hurried? Poor lighting? Maybe I’m too sober? I have no idea, but I actually gasped when I first saw them. Is “gaspingly ugly” even a term? Wow…

Complete your iClone and DAZ Production Pipeline

iClone users get the best of both worlds with dual-format sources straight from DAZ and iClone content. All DAZ content provided in these packs are 100% original assets with highly-detailed textures and maps that have been tested for use with iClone. Users will enjoy the benefits of both formats for if they wish to further edit Genesis Characters back in DAZ, or if they prefer to instantly start using this content with iClone’s powerful animating arsenal.

Genesis Anime Starter Bundle includes:
- Genesis Characters with Morphs
- 2 Characters Aiko and Hiro
- 1 Hair Base (Pure Hair Bubblegum)
- 5 Hairstyles
- 3 Large Weapons
- 1 Neo Stop

Get the content
http://www.reallusion.com/ContentStore/promo/2012DAZ-genesis-anime/default.html

iClone 5: Monster Workshop Tutorial - Quick Lip-sync and Expressive Animation

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Oct 192012

The Avatar Toolkit allows you to both create a super quick animation based on template expressions, or go into detail by separately animating each facial feature. In this tutorial, you’ll learn one of the fastest and easiest ways to create an exceptional animation by combining lip syncing, avatar component puppet, and direct body puppet. You’ll also pick up some tips on how to customize your monster’s lip sync so you can take full advantage of their morph-based facial animation support.

http://www.reallusion.com/ContentStore/promo/2012AvatarToolkit/

iClone 5: Monster Workshop Tutorial - Combining Avatar Toolkit and Body Animation Tools

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Oct 192012

Beyond the face, you can also animate a number of other components included with the Monster Workshop such as wings, tails, and horns. This tutorial demonstrates how to combine iClone motions clips along with avatar component puppet animation to create a totally new and exceptional animation result.

http://www.reallusion.com/ContentStore/promo/2012AvatarToolkit/

iClone 5: Monster Workshop Tutorial - Monster Creation and Customization Part 2

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Oct 192012

This tutorial goes a bit more in depth into how you can create a more unique looking character. You’ll find out how important texture maps are when it comes to customizing the appearance of your monster by playing around with bump, glow and diffuse maps and adjusting other material properties such as transparency. You don’t even really need an image-editing program to get this done, just a bunch of cool texture maps.

http://www.reallusion.com/ContentStore/promo/2012AvatarToolkit/

iClone 5: Monster Workshop Tutorial - Monster Creation and Customization Part 1

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Oct 192012

If you’re about to embark on a journey of custom monster creation, you’ll probably want to take a gander at this tutorial first. You’ll learn the basics of character color and proportion change, attaching different items to different parts of your monster’s body, swapping monster heads, quick body texture editing, and many more other gruesome operations. Time to create your own Frankenstein!

http://www.reallusion.com/ContentStore/promo/2012AvatarToolkit/

Demonstration of the iClone Avatar Toolkit Plug-in

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Oct 192012

Avatar Toolkit is finally here! Avatar Toolkit is a leading-edge 3D Avatar creator system that allows you to freely animate your imaginative creatures. It’s designed with the intuitive control panel to puppeteer characters’ facial expression and accessory animation as versatile as you need!

http://www.reallusion.com/ContentStore/promo/2012AvatarToolkit/

iClone 5: Monster Workshop Tutorial - Facial Animation Fundamentals

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Oct 172012

A new toolkit from Reallusion for iClone 5…

The Avatar Toolkit offers a whole new world of animation possibility to the already powerful and versatile tools within iClone. This tutorial gives you an introduction to iClone’s first ever characters to support morph-based facial animation, and how you can combine the traditional facial animation tools with the Avatar Toolkit to create some really great results super fast!

iClone 5: Monster Workshop Tutorial - Intro to Avatar Toolkit UI & Basic Assembly

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Oct 172012

A new toolkit from Reallusion for iClone 5…

The Monster Workshop content pack is a fun and essential addition to the already massive iClone content library. In this pack, you’ll find 3 base characters and a whole collection of various body components such as ears, horns, tails, etc. that allow you to totally customize your own unique cartoon-like monster characters. Most importantly is the whole new Avatar Toolkit panel, which allows you to animate all of your character’s parts in a whole new way. There’s a whole lot of new stuff to become familiar with, so in order to know what you’re dealing with, make sure you check out this tutorial for a simple yet thorough introduction to all the elements included in the Monster Workshop such as how to select, add and modify your character components as well as perform simple animation.

iClone 5 Tutorial: Creating Custom Motions with the Look At and Path Tools

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Sep 242012

This tutorial will give you some tips on how to combine the Path tool with a walking motion to get your character to walk along a desired path. On top of that, you’ll learn about how to use the Look At tool to draw the characters attention to certain objects in your project. Both are pretty staple techniques for animation in iClone, so don’t miss out on this quick demonstration!

Medieval Houses Worldbuilder Set by Zafari & Ported to iClone by Bigboss

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Sep 222012

Wow. I even like the music used for the demo! Great design and texturing on this package.

Bigboss is extremely proud to announce the arrival of a series of absolutely outstanding and stunning creations by Zafari.

This is the Medieval Houses Worldbuilder Set by Zafari.

These Medieval Houses will transport your imagination back in time to medieval town life. The pack contains everything you need to make a complete Medieval Village featuring an iClone Terrain made by Bigboss plus 11 highly detailed Medieval Houses made by Zafari.

Notes

- Each house was carefully crafted to the highest standards by Zafari
- Houses feature complete interior/exterior texturing
- Upon loading, each house will automatically position itself on the terrain for you so that you have minimal effort to create your scene.

This pack is complementary to all other Medieval World builder sets distributed by Bigboss.