Blog 3 | Scenes Previzualitation with iClone 3D tools

In the movie production, when a team have a concept or an unfinished script or maybe they have already done it all but want to concentrate on the camera movement & angle, layouting the shot at it best or referencing for real life execution, they will usually do a previzualitation.

Storyboard

2D Illustrations

3D Animated Visualization

3D Storyboard

Previzualitation itself actually can be breakdown into 4 method which are, 2D hand - drawn storyboard, 2d conceptual illustrations, 3D animated visualization and 3D storyboard. Some of the 2D method still usually used until now, but it is actually less effective than by making it with 3D tools.

For the 3D tools previzualitation, we have DAZ & iClone. Basically, they have the same purpose as a 3d tools, where you can drag and drop a character directly into a scene, adding environments, adding an animation into the characters just in a few steps and in fact they both actually quite great on their level and iClone itself already quite improving too in the past few years with some of their new features like bullet physics with their new PhysX engine for soft cloth where it can make the character cloth move realisticly just with a simple step and details features to the lighting, shadows and dynamic texturing with slider controls which is just added into the newest iClone.

Exporting character from DAZ to iClone

DAZ 3D Character

iClone 3D Character

But, actually there are some points that can be taken from the DAZ 3D to improve the iClone 3D tools. Such as, better quality renders and more define character models like DAZ 3D has rather than exporting the character first from the DAZ 3D than to 3DXchange for file format conversion and than at last importing it to the iClone software, as they claimed themselves on their website that it is a powerful 3D composition and rendering software with photorealistic results. Where from the superiority of DAZ 3D will benefits the iClone to wider their target market in industry and also to define the previsualization output itself when you need more detailed looks output.

References :

Clinel, G. 2014, 'PREVISUALIZATION Part ONE: What is Previs?', viewed 10 September, 2017,<https://library.creativecow.net/article.php?author_folder=cline_gare&article_folder=Previs_intro&page=1>.

Lovell, J. 2014, 'An Overview of Previsualization (Previz) Software and Methods', viewed 10 September, 2017,<http://wolfcrow.com/blog/an-overview-of-previsualization-previz-software-and-methods/>.

Dremer, M.T. 2016, 'A Beginner's Guide to 3D Art and DAZ Studio', viewed 15 August, 2017,

<https://turbofuture.com/graphic-design-video/Create-3D-Art-For-Free-with-DAZ-Studio/>.

'The Ultimate Pipeline from DAZ 3D to iClone', viewed 10 September, 2017,

< https://www.reallusion.com/creative/creative_daz3d.aspx/>.