To celebrate the 2001st post on the MyClone blog, what better than a pleasing little low-poly 16k personal spaceship? From a Blender model by Amiacs, converted for iClone 5…
Category Archives: Freebies
iClone 4 Pro, free
iClone 4 Pro, free on the cover-disk of 3D Artist issue 51.
3DXchange 5.4
Reallusion has announced the nearly-ready 3DXchange 5.4, which will include rigging for facial animation with lip-sync — and also support for animatable DAZ face morphs(!). Sounds fab, and although it’s still “in the testing phase” it should be available in the first quarter of 2013…
“With this new release, not only will we support facial bone animation from any head rig, but we will also support morph-based facial animations made in DAZ, ZBrush and other 3D sculpting tools. In addition, you will be able to create sophisticated morph + bone rig animations with great results.”
It’s my understanding that this was always going to be a free upgrade for existing 3DXchange 5 users?
Also, accompanying the announcement are previews of some fabulous looking new characters, from what seems to be a forthcoming “Big Game Hunter” set…
The Boy Who Shuddered, from the Brothers Grimm – free audio book
My 22 minute reading of the short tale “The Boy Who Shuddered” (aka “The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear”), from the famous 1812 book of folk tales transcribed by the Brothers Grimm. My abridged and adapted audio book version is now on Archive.org, under a Creative Commons licence. Feel free to use for animation etc. The downloadable MP3 has none of the slight crackle that the audio in Archive.org’s Flash preview player has.
Water village freebie
A new iClone 5 freebie. A new water-village on stilts, made by Daniel74 in just 64k polys and released on Blendswap. Converted by me for iClone 5, and packed as a project file.
iClone 4 Pro for free
The UK’s 3D World magazine has a free download and licence for iClone 4 Pro, with its latest issue (Feb 2013), plus a tutorial pitching it as a pre-vis tool…
As usual, their picture-editor seems to have chosen the most unimpressive shots possible to illustrate the software.
Bottle ovens set for iClone
Here’s a rather obscure freebie. I’ve made a set of Victorian-era bottle oven props for iClone. They’re structures which were used for the large-scale baking of pottery, in great ceramics cities like Stoke-on-Trent and elsewhere. These are just basic 3D props and as such are meant for middle and far distance use, not close-ups. For non-commercial use only, please.
A little sketchy
Repaired the dead download link for my free “sketch” iClone project file. This is set up and lit to give you one of the best b&w “finished sketch” effects in iClone 5…
PC Pro – Jan 2013
The latest issue of the UK’s venerable PC Pro magazine (Jan 2013) has iClone 4.2 Pro lurking inside on a free cover-disk. I saw it on a news-stand and as far as I could tell from the page blurb, it’s a genuinely full version.
iClone – it’s dynamite!
A classic bundle of dynamite sticks with fuses, newly modelled for Blender by Thomasf95. Converted for iClone by me. Poly-reduced from 160,000 to 29,000 polys, and re-textured.
Muvizu illuminated…
The new release of Muvizu is available, in the usual 450Mb download. This new edition features a new optional German-translation of the interface, for those in Germany. Plus new content packs for Prisons and Railroads.
There’s also now a free set of 23 handy lighting presets…
Ancient Venus for iClone
Free ancient statue iClone prop, which I extracted, poly-reduced to 29k, smoothed, and re-textured — all from Zuendholz’s free Blender scene…
Modelled after the ancient Venus figurines made from about 35,000 to 11,000 years ago.
Tears of Steel mattes at 1920px
1920px background mattes that I’ve extracted from the open movie “Tears of Steel”, Photoshopping out the characters if needed. Creative Commons Attribution: credit the “Blender Foundation”…
Vintage sea-plane freebie for iClone
My freebie conversion of an anonymous Sketchup 3D Warehouse model of a classic explorer’s sea-plane, to iClone 5. Converted from zillions of polgons down to just 43k, textured, removed the propellers so that you can fit your own and animate them spinning.
Download here (10 Mb)
Sketchizu
New official Muvizu tutorial, on getting Sketchup files to Muvizu, using a free plugin for Sketchup… specifically on importing them with collision properties…
Open Tourque
The Torque game engine is going open source, under an MIT licence. Although it seems to be just the source code, rather than any content assets which might ship with the engine?
New version of Muvizu
New version of Muvizu, available now…
* Upgraded Heroes & Villains asset packs … brand new animations … sets and environments including…
- Cityscape rooftops
- Sewers
- Dojos
- Creepy caves
* User interface (UI) now available in Portuguese, French and Italian.
* Upgrades to the animation engine … [cures] memory leak issues, bugs and general performance problems.
3DXChange version 5.1 is now available
3DXChange version 5.1 is now available. New features or fixes include:
* T-pose preset.
* Support for sending BHV motions to Blender.
* Show/Hide Bone Node Option.
* Proper pivot support for accesories used with non-standard characters.
* Hotkey for Material Pick
* Recorded accessory animation can be transferred.
* G4 / G5 Head option in Head Morph / Export Model.
* Auto-detect G4 / G5 head when importing Head Morph Model.
