Blog 2 | DAZ 3D vs iClone 3D Tools

Previsualizations is one of the most important thing in the stage of making a movie, as it is efficiently reduce the time production where it makes director, cinematographer or VFX Supervisor to be more creative to produce some kind of different staging and art direction options. iClone & Daz 3D is one of the tools that are improving quickly. It is usually been used by several indsutry. From this blog post you will get to know what application that fits your needs in movie production.

Features

Starting with the iClone 3D tools, it is an easy to use tools for every level of people that rarely know about animation. Besides, it's really suitables if you are working in tight deadline. Generally, iClone & DAZ 3d tools have the same features which is for producing an animation in short time. But, for DAZ it is more into producing a high image quality rendering.

Aesthetics

iClone and DAZ are both the best tools in making your previz fast. Where they are spesialized in animation & rendering with fully rigged character. Both of this tools actually have their own specialities. As it t is depends on how do you want your output will be. Like for example, when you are in industry and you need to make a previz but the production for previz is only 3 days for the previz so, you will need to go for iclone to produce a good animation / short movie with the best render speed with a lot of free content. On the other side, DAZ is really best tool to produce a detail character and output render.

Conclusion

Both iClone and DAZ is actually still the best tools in making a previz for film making. If  you want to be more focus on the animation and produce movie in short time then iClone is more suitable for you as it works realtime so, you will get what you see. But, if you want a high quality render image with more detail character and environtment, the DAZ is the best choice.

References

Lovell, J. 2014, 'An Overview of Previsualization (Previz) Software and Methods', viewed 15 August, 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/>.

Antunes, J. 2017, ' iClone & HitFilm, tools in the animator’s tool box', viewed 15 August, 2017,

< https://www.provideocoalition.com/iclone-hitfilm-tools-animators-tool-box//>.

Blog 1 | iClone 3D Tools

iClone logo

iClone's looks when the tools is starting

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>.