Animation and Video Life

If you're interested in iClone and was wondering how hard it is to learn then that's what this series is about, my experience of learning iClone 5 using Reallusion's Quick Fix Video Tutorials . Click the following links for Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 and Part 5 . If you're just looking to learn iClone then skip this and try the tutorials for yourself as this series is not a how to guide for iClone 5. This will be the final post in the series as the last two Quick Fix Video Tutorials are very short and essentially involve mostly adjusting settings on specific effects. Applying a Lens Blur effect. The first tutorial is Quick Fix Tutorial - Post FX which focuses on different keyable filter effects that can be applied to your finished scenes. Effects include; blur, color adjust, color filter, lens blur and NPR (Non Photo-realistic  Rendering). To add each effect it's a simple case of double clicking the one you wish to apply then adjusting the setting...

If you're interested in iClone and was wondering how hard it is to learn then that's what this series is about, my experience of learning iClone 5 using Reallusion's Quick Fix Video Tutorials . Click the following links for Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4 . If you're just looking to learn iClone then skip this and try the tutorials for yourself as this series is not a how to guide for iClone 5. The subject of this post is Reallusion's Soft Body Physics Video Tutorial . At just over 3 minutes it's very fast to run through and very easy to follow the steps. In fact there's very little to do other than play around with the physics settings to see how they affect your soft body prop - which in the case of this tutorial is the Canadian Flag. Draping the Canadian flag over a sphere.

Fellow GoAnimator, TheseStars is a big supporter of Cool Froyd putting aside quite a great deal of time to create a new GoAnimation analyzing Froyd's star charts to determine what his Sun sign might be. As well as Froyd the video features TheseStars (as a whiteboard character), Stick Figure and Hoot the owl - a character that I animated for TheseStars using Koolmoves .

Long time readers may remember the Skate Monkey character I started creating for CrazyTalk Animator 2 towards the beginning of 2014. That project still remains unfinished because... Life/Business. However, I've been trying to get back into drawing again (like with an actual pencil and paper) just to remind myself (and a few of my detractors for using GoAnimate) that I can actually draw. Also to further teach myself how to finish off my pencil drawings in Manga Studio . I really don't use that software enough to get what I learn to stick!