Headline NewsReallusion launches popVideo 3, a dedicated HD chroma key editing tool with smart design features that greatly simplifies the task of background video removal. This allows users to work under many environmental conditions making transparent videos a reality for iClone’s real-time 3D animation engine.
For the past 15 years, iClone has been widely used in the world for everything from television programs, 3D film-making, video game development, pre-viz production, special effects, and just about anything.
In 2015, we were happy to see iClone being used in movie trailers, and in independent short films as iClone is a great tool for animators to express their creativity with. The use in the Jimmy Kimmel Live! TV show, and Toei Animation Studios previz show exactly just how far iClone has come, and matured, into a professional animation tool.
Here are our picks for the Top 5 Best uses of iClone in 2015!
This short film created a great atmosphere about the dark side of a city. Through a boy’s troubled journey across a hostile urban area, he experiences violence, flight, fire, guns, bullets, and in the end… death.
When the boy eventually encounters his own death, he sees all the dead spirits that he faced. It’s like he went through the dark side of humanity, and then suddenly a transformation happened – the evil inside broke through, and the human inside awoke. We chose this film as the best use of iClone in 2015, not just because it’s really well-made, but because of its deep meaning.
Animator and illustrator Steve Cutts did an excellent job at setting the scene, character animation, story-telling and visual effects. He created this film in After Effects and Photoshop, with additional 3D elements created in Cinema 4D and iClone.
Reallusion launches iClone Character Creator 1.4. iClone users now can make use of Character Creator to design stylized 3D characters and create infinite character morph possibilities. Base characters or derivative morphs work with iClone, Autodesk, Unity, Unreal and are approved for indie or commercial productions. Monetize Character Creator 1.4 by selling your custom character morphs in the Reallusion marketplace.
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Reallusion launches CrazyTalk 8 photo-to-3D animation software now available for Mac & PC. Previously, facial animation and 3D head modeling were commonly only accessible to advanced animators and 3D professionals, but now CrazyTalk 8’s new approach guides users through creating a custom 3D head using one or two photos. CrazyTalk 8 has revolutionized face fitting and modeling with the recently patented fitting process now able to generate 3D talking heads that are shaped and textured by the photo. Fine-tune 3D heads with face morphs to create custom characters. Animate CrazyTalk 2D or 3D heads using your voice, music or any audio to smoothly lip-sync character animations and generate instant Auto-motion animation for video production, training, e-learning, motion comics or use in 3D apps like iClone.
Turning photos and images into instant talking heads, and talking pets, has been widely popular in animation and film-making since 2000, thanks in part to the first launch of CrazyTalk, the world’s most popular facial animation software.
Every year, we are amazed to see how CrazyTalk is used globally in so many fun and creative ways, ways that awaken our curiosity and inspiration!
To pay tribute to these awesome CrazyTalk artists, we have selected the Top 5 CrazyTalk animations from 2015. Roll the tape!
Official music video for Olga Korsak’s song – “Behind closed doors”. A professionally made music video where they used CrazyTalk 7 to animate paintings and sculptures.
This CrazyTalk animated video perfectly demonstrates how CrazyTalk is not just a fun tool for creating talking heads and talking avatars, but that it also lends itself to professional and corporate applications with very high quality results that save artists, companies and studios lots of time, money and effort.
iClone Character Creator just won the Highly Commended Award for software on 3D World Magazine’s 2016 February issue; receiving a score of 4 out of 5.
Reviewer Rob Redman is an industry veteran, who runs course covering VFX, animation and filmmaking.
Here are some of his review quotes-
“The integration with iClone is a big selling point, as the integration is where the power lies. “
“Reallusion have spend real development time ensuring there are many choices to help personlise figure-from refined makeup and skin tone controls, to elements of wear and tear, and even rips to add to clothing.”
“The resulting figures are not at the pinnacle of quality; they’re not meant to be. They are rigged, and are easy to work with; perfect for pre-viz and visualisation work.”
Character Creation is a specialized tool that takes a massive amount of effort, and converts into a single, easy to use process which any character design professional will absolutely love.
To experience the power of iClone’s Character Creator, with free 3D character downloads for the Unity 3D platform. Visit: http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/game