A peek at a new Spore-style “Avatar Toolkit: Monster Workshop” Series, coming soon for iClone. Needs a really cool classic 1930s Mad Scientists Lab to accompany it, perhaps?
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Meanwhile, down on the farm…
The Biz takes first prize in the iClone 5 Physics Competition…
Get in on the action
Warlord’s basic start guide to making an action scene using iClone…
Mr. Weaver’s Phototools
Virtual photographers exploring the worlds of Second Life for interesting film locations, might be interested in the add-on called Mr. Weaver’s Phototools. Nalates has an independent review of these tools.
The Marcel wave…
Free mime artist texture for Muvizu characters…
Carnivorous plant for iClone
3dFoin’s Elongata is now available for iClone for $19 (with animations), at 3Dfoin.
I’d love to see Foin tackling a full set of the original H.P. Lovecraft monsters (Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Old Ones, Shoggoths, Azathoth, Mi-Go, Ghouls, Night Gaunts, etc) sometime, since they’re now all in the public domain. I’m sure they’d sell, especially at Halloween.
iClone Wiki
Cathy’s iClone Wiki returns from the grave, with only a small amount of twitching and gibbering 
Free lowpoly dinosaur for iClone 5
Mutte’s really excellent low-poly stylised Blender dinosaur — converted and retextured by me, as an iClone 5 avatar freebie. The original FBX is also included, is anyone wants to use 3DXChange 5 Pro to rig it so it accepts stock animal motions. As it is, it comes with one basic animation, and you can make more with Motion Edit.
Mad Scientist set for Muvizu
A nice freebie coming soon to Muvizu, a free Mad Scientist Lab, to go with the new Mad Scientist character…
Meshlab 1.3.2
A new version of the excellent free Meshlab is available, 1.3.2.
Free Robot Dog for iClone
Here’s a free non-standard character I converted for iClone, a cool Robot Dog. Supplied as the base FBX, the iClone Project file with posed tail, and the actual Avatar. It should also be able to be rigged in 3DXchange 5 Pro, depending on what base creature skeleton you want it to have…
Thanks to Linil for the Creative Commons Blender model that I converted this from.
Big French Dick competition
Based in France? 3DVF magazine has a competition to illustrate one of Philip K. Dick’s famous science-fiction books. Major sponsorship, lots of prizes. But you will need a postal address in France in order to enter.
iClone at SIGGRAPH
The iClone team, presenting iClone and real-time 3D motion-capture at SIGGRAPH 2012…
Sour Orange
Allegedly shady behaviour on the animation courses at the Art Institute of California – Orange County.
More bang for your buck
Free Cinema 4D weapons pack. You’ll need to sign up to a newsletter and, of course, have Cinema 4D, in order to get these to iClone. Including a steampunk ring-gun, a professionally textured 17th century cannon, and a Jerry Cornelius -style needle gun…
Animate Chapman competition
New Monty Python Competition, Animate Chapman, Worldwide, and sponsored by Adobe.
Photorealism contest
Blender Photorealism Contest: the entries…
Above: Fox Mulder.
Faceshift
Faceshift, marker-free facial motion capture… for the Microsoft Kinect. Currently in beta, and on show at the London Olympics and at SIGGRAPH.
