Archive for January, 2008

Binary Picture Show debuts iClone film

Posted by Animize on January 18th, 2008

Leo Lucien follows the much talked about Machinima, “BEAST,” with a new movie filmed using iClone and that takes a light hearted look at the search for the perfect communal companion in, “Roommate Wanted.” The Binary Picture Show’s “BEAST” became a highly acclaimed Machinima movie portraying two characters we were instantly consumed with by their captivating emotional expression and facial animation generated by Leo using Reallusion’s CrazyTalk.

“CrazyTalk gave me the ability to do some great facial animation that would have been very difficult and time consuming in many other tools,” said Leo about using CrazyTalk in his studio.

Now, Binary Picture Show explores filmmaking with iClone after the successful addition of CrazyTalk to their arsenal. Already an iClone producer, Leo migrated his popular GNews with Lady Mainframe to iClone in 2007 and expanded the show to multiple monthly episodes improving production speed by filming in the iClone 3D real-time studio. Lady Mainframe and the Binary Picture Show rivaled most any G4 avataresque news or host and provided viewers with an entertaining update on video games and gaming technology.

The Binary Picture Show’s dedication to quality Machinima is one of the many fine reasons our art form is on the rise both among the ranks of the converted and also spreading to the masses in the mainstream.

“Roommate Wanted,” produced in association with Reallusion, features many out-of-box capabilities with iClone and additional content packs able to be added to the basic iClone library.

London Film Academy teaches iClone

Posted by Animize on January 13th, 2008

The London Film Academy’s Digital Film VFX Certificate Program introduces students to previsualization techniques with iClone. Alan Marques, instructor and Visual Effects pro talks about how iClone is used at the London Film Academy in this video.

Alan Marques has 23 years experience in the digital special effects industry, VFX Supervisor, and Lead Tutor on LFA’s new Digital Film VFX Course, has over 30 feature film and television credits to his name including “GoldenEye”, “Seven Years in Tibet” and Werner Herzog’s “Invincible”. He has worked for a number of high-end visual effects companies including The Magic Camera Company, Artem Digital and Terry Gilliam’s Peerless Camera Company. He is a member of The Visual Effects Society and the BKSTS and has lectured to industry professionals for a number of years.

iClone Content Expands as 3DX 2 Launches

Posted by Animize on January 12th, 2008

iClone adds connectivity to over 200,000 free 3D models with Google 3D Warehouse and new content packs featuring user-made character models.
3DXchange 2 features compatibility with Google SKP 3D models which are created with the free and easy to use 3D modeling tool, Google SketchUp. Google SKP compatibility with 3DXchange 2 expands evey iClone filmmakers library with free access to over 200,000 3D models available for download on the Google 3D Warehouse. Connect and search the Google 3D Warehouse for the perfect model to complete your iClone scenes directly from iClone 3DXchange 2 with the built-in Google 3D Warehouse browser.


iClone 3DXchange 2.0 is available through the Reallusion website.

Reallusion continues to release model content packs produced in-house and by iClone power-users.
Recent additions to the iClone online content store:

iClone City Elements content pack: 100+ models from Reallusion
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A Touch of the Orient: Cool Creators
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A touch of Africa v.1 - Cool Creators
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