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Call for Entry: Animation @ Work Contest 2019

August 19, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblogLeave a comment

Reallusion invites EVERYONE from all walks of life to animate regardless of their experience or background

Reallusion’s Cartoon Animator 4 (formerly known as CrazyTalk Animator) is considered one of the easiest 2D animation software in the market. To prove that animation isn’t only for professionals, Reallusion is hosting the Animation At Work Contest 2019 with 4 categories: Business, Comic, YouTube, and Education.

Thanks to the ease-of-use of Cartoon Animator, literally anyone can join, regardless of their experience or knowhow. Winners will be selected based on themed animations for life or business.

The contest submission starts now and lasts until October 31st, 2019.

Animation At Work Contest webpage – https://www.reallusion.com/cartoon-animator/default.html

Events

Thank you for visiting us @ 2019 Los Angeles SIGGRAPH

August 15, 2019July 14, 2022 enocburgosLeave a comment

The Fusion of iClone Creativity & Unreal Engine at SIGGRAPH 2019

Its been a week since SIGGRAPH 2019, and Reallusion would like to thank all our fans, friends and partners who visited our booth to experience the latest in realtime technology for virtual production, movies, games, AR/VR and motion capture.

In Los Angeles, Reallusion innovated once again by democratizing the creation and animation of digital humans through Character Creator’s Headshot and the iClone Unreal Live Link plug-in.

Featured Story

Creating an Action Animation Short in 3 Weeks

August 13, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblog2 Comments

Exploiting a pipeline with Character Creator, iClone, Rokoko and Cinema 4D

As we all know, creating animations can be an extremely time-consuming and costly task. New software innovations have made it much easier for animators and filmmakers to create quality projects in record time.

This tutorial will share how this “Battle City” short by Jon Finger, was created in 3 weeks with help from theCharacter Creator, iClone, Rokoko and Cinema 4D pipeline.

Events

Reallusion unveils HeadShot AI, iClone Unreal Live Link and New Digital Human Shader @ 2019 Los Angeles SIGGRAPH

July 29, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblog4 Comments

New realtime technology driving virtual production, movies, games, AR/VR and motion capture comes to all creators from Reallusion at Siggraph 2019. Reallusion innovations are poised to democratize the creation and animation of digital humans. Join Reallusion at booth #640 for live demonstrations with iClone Unreal Live Link featuring realtime face and body motion capture from iClone to Unreal, an interactive demo to create a 3D face morph from HeadShot, a new AI based plugin for Character Creator 3, and the evolution of our 3D characters with the debut of our realtime Digital Human Shader.

The Reallusion pipeline of Character Creator 3, iClone 7 and Unreal Engine is a creative force to design, animate and deploy 3D characters for realtime Unreal projects.

iClone Unreal Live Link – Create and Control Lights, Cameras and Characters

Product Release

Reallusion Launches iClone Unreal Live Link

July 27, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblog2 Comments

Real-time Digital Human Character & Animation System for Unreal

Reallusion launches iClone Unreal Live Link, the plugin that connects the iClone character and animation system with Unreal Engine for games, films, archviz and virtual production. Experience live performance capture with iClone at SIGGRAPH booth #640, July 30 – Aug1st.

The visual progress of realtime engines is ever increasing the bar for characters, and the request for digital human realism is following the trend. Transform characters into an array of different styles and looks, Reallusion keeps pushing the limits by adding a GoZ workflow, a 3D scan pipeline, as well as a new shader technology to Character Creator meeting the demand for professional characters.

Events

AT&T SHAPE Features the Future of Media and Entertainment Technology

July 25, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblogLeave a comment

iClone 7 and Character Creator 3 showcase Realtime 3D for Virtual Production

AT&T Shape 2019, an entertainment and wireless technology event hosted at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, California featured the future of 5G wireless technology from AT&T, Nokia, Nvidia, and Google, along with a number of companies there to share innovations in media and entertainment. Noitom, makers of Perception Neuron and Magic Leap, the mega AR glasses company were also among those attendance. AT&T Shape offers attendees a weekend on the famous Warner Brothers Studios lot to hear from industry speakers and see the latest solutions for industry leaders.

Reallusion was setup in the town chapel with 5G innovation and Media Technology leaders.

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Former HBO Producer turns to iClone Character Creator for Latest Film Project

July 24, 2019September 6, 2022 enocburgosLeave a comment

Julian Grant

Julian Grant is an award-winning filmmaker with 34 feature films to his credit. A published author and acclaimed digital artist – Julian Grant’s work can be seen worldwide on cinema screens, television, independent forums and on the internet. As an independent writer, producer and director he has created numerous short films and music videos and continues to develop new media showcases, transmedia events and pedagogical strategies.

Julian has worked with Lionsgate and HBO where he worked as the Producer/ Director of the acclaimed mini-series, Robocop: Prime Directives. Today, Julian Grant is a tenured Associate Professor in the Interactive Arts & Media Department at Columbia College Chicago.

In 2017 he was approached by screenwriter Ron Falzone, with his script for ‘Coriander’, which he took on with the help of iClone, Character Creator and 3DXchange; as he had previously done a number of short films with.

“Thanks to Reallusion for continuing to push forward the opportunities available to independent artists such as myself who can dream big and even step back in time to recreate NY in the 1920’s. I couldn’t have made ‘Coriander’ without Reallusion!”
– Julian Grant

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AAA Studio Veteran combines iClone Character Pipeline with Unreal Engine

July 17, 2019July 14, 2022 enocburgosLeave a comment

Mark Stefanowicz

Mark is a AAA Game Studio Veteran.
Director of Art for Disney’s Epic Mickey and Epic Mickey 2.
Multi award winning Art Director with 20+ Years of Video Game and Mobile Industry Experience.

Mark Stefanowicz is originally from Chelsea, MA. At a very young age, his parents would see him drawing in their living room, lost in his imagination and creativity. Realizing his potential, Mark’s parents enrolled him at the age of six to the Tringarli School of Art.

After his time in college, Mark began his career. Mark eventually joined Electronic Arts as a Lead Artist and progressed to the position of Art Production Manager for Central Art. In 2011, Mark join Disney to become the Art Director of Disney Epic Mickey, Disney Interactive’s flagship game. Mark went on to become Studio Art Director at Junction Point and oversaw development of Disney Epic Mickey 2 while also engaging with other Disney pillars in the organization, from the Archives to Pixar Animation.

In 2016 Mark decided to go out on his own with his partners and create Lost Boys Interactive. Lost Boys quickly grew to a studio of 16 in 2018, and worked on titles for Square Enix, Digital Extremes and Call of Duty.

“After 22 years of working with AAA Studios (EA Games, Disney) I have been searching for a pipeline that can achieve AAA quality production in a matter of days. Reallusion has that. ”
– Mark Stefanowicz

Learning

Gamasutra: Creating Game Characters for Unreal & Unity Using Reallusion’s Character Creator 3

July 12, 2019July 14, 2022 reallusionblogLeave a comment

Insider Tips for Game Character Artists

By Eddie Christian

Game and film characters are always different each time. In game characters you have the added issues of keeping your characters light on their polygon counts while still delivering a pleasing look for the character. Another factor is the creative itself. Does the project call for characters that are hyper-realistic or very stylized? It is a need that changes with each project; sometimes it shifts back and forth within the same project.

In a big way it matters how prepared your client is. Do they know what they want? Do they know what the character would wear, its personality, what weapons it may use?

In a perfect world, the writers and concept artists should have all this information for you before you start. But as budgets shrink, directors and producers are making the character artist do more of this. This is where Reallusion shines. Being able to make changes to characters and their wardrobe helps you get ideas to the client quickly. Without these tools you could waste hundreds of hours getting an idea the client likes.

GOZ for Reallusion’s Character Creator 3 (CC3) is a huge time-saver. At any time I can press a single button and see how the character will look with materials, clothing or props. And you can keep using this ability to transfer the mesh all through the sculpting process. I go back and forth constantly tweaking sculpts in ZBrush and doing test renders with Iray in CC3. It allows me to see the final product as I work.