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| iClone logo |
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| iClone's looks when the tools is starting |
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| iClone's interface |
iClone is one of the popular tools in creative media industry. It is a real time 3d animation and rendering software program that surely suitables for either newbie or professionals to make an animated film in short time but still in high quality output result. As it simplifies the process of making the 3d animation world. It also connect to the industry standard tools like Unity, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Blender, ZBrush, Poser and many others through popular industry file formats like FBX, OBJ and BVH and this is why the industry already starting to use this tools. In general, iClone is use by indie filmmakers, pro studio crews, previs team, as well as writers, directors, animators, advertisers or anyone that wishes to quickly turn their vision into a reality.
iClone demo reel
How can it speed up your work ? Well iClone was designed with an animation ready rigging so that users can immediately make the character alive. Beside that, it is also provides the users some standard animation for the character, free props and also an environment set which it will take a long time to make if the users make it from scratch.
Other than that, iClone is also one of the best solution especially for visual designers and directors to reduce their production costs, build consensus and get more ideas to achieve higher levels of quality and efficiency.
The iClone user interface is divided into several different sections:
Navigation pane
The Tools Menu
Content Manager and Scene Manager
Control bar
3D Real-time Viewer (Preview Window)
Play Bar
Modify Page
Time Setting Panel
Timeline Editor
Overall, this program is really helpful in creative industry in making a quick 3d animation film. But usually it is used only for previzualitation before the making of a film. As the output render quality is still below the most popular 3d programs in industry.
References :
McCallum, M.D. 2015, 'IClone 6 : The Fast Lane Animation', viewed 19 July, 2017,
<https://www.renderosity.com/iclone-6-the-fast-lane-to-animation-cms-17650>.
'Introducing the User Interface', viewed 19 July, 2017,
<https://www.reallusion.com/iclone/Help/iClone3/04_Introducing_the_User_Interface/Introducing_the_user_interface.htm>.
