Category: IRay

• Wrapping up Part 3 . . .

  First of all, “The Bell Dimension Deux” comic is on hold as I finish up with the final part of the movie Preview. Now that it has been completed in a rough form, I’m going through and rendering in iClone’s High Render settings at 4096. Iray rendering is out of the question since it would […]

  beeflowerpower

  2021-08-25

  3D, Animation, Character Creator 3, Comic, ComicLife 3, iClone 7, IRay, Lip Sync, Marvelous Designer, ShotCut Video Editor, tBd Book, tBd Movie, The Bell Dimension, The Bell Dimension Deux, Videos

  3D, Animation, Character Creator 3, film, iClone 7, movie, sci-fi, The Bell Dimension

• Scene 1 of The Bell Dimension . . .

  Although not perfect, this begins the story and illustrates what you can do with 2D rendered IRay backgrounds (1000/3600). I love the LIVE FACE, but it was only applied to the Kerr character and not the slave. Once I have create a new PREVIEW, I will re-render in IRay and hopefully that will run more […]

  beeflowerpower

  2021-01-17

  2D, 3D, Animation, Character Creator 3, Fabric Designs, iClone 7, IRay, Lip Sync, LIVE FACE, Marvelous Designer

• Power Boost for SSD . . . in newly released iClone 7 update!

  I recently bought the $229 SkinGen plugin for iClone 7 and I am honestly blown away. The quality of the iRay render literally flew through the frames, faster than ever before, but I digress. The video link, after being processed through ShotCut, dropped down from 23.2 Mb to 5.1Mb, at 1920 x 1080 with voice […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-07-25

  4K, iClone 7, IRay, Lip Sync

• Fixed “Mining the Story” Store link . . .

  The pain of trying to sell online with no money is quite a pain, but doable! I had just finished creating my store only to see Squareup/Weebly do an upgrade which moved my web site to another location. On top of that, my electronic download products of a Cartoon Animator 4 character got zapped and […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-07-02

  2D, 3D, Animation, Cartoon Animator 4, iClone 7, IRay, PopVideo, ShotCut Video Editor, tBd Book, tBd Movie, The Bell Dimension

  3D, Animation, movie, sci-fi, The Bell Dimension

• iClone Head Shot . . .

   So I broke down and bought the Head Shot plugin for iClone 7 as it is on sale for half price. Of course, I should have realized there will be “additional” costs for the capability to customize the skin’s appearance, but I did not think they would throw in the basic skin setup so you […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-06-16

  2D, 3D, Animation, Cartoon Animator 4, HeadShot, iClone 7, IRay, PopVideo, ShotCut Video Editor, tBd Book, tBd Movie, The Bell Dimension

  3D, Animation, movie, sci-fi, The Bell Dimension

• iClone Previews . . .

  I’ve posted 4 PREVIEWS on Vimeo that show the progress made in creating “The Bell Dimension”. Of course, creating these “mini” movies started several years ago as I was learning how to use iClone 2 and let me tell you I do not know how many times I crashed my PC and the only saving […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-05-14

  2D, 3D, Animation, iClone 7, IRay, tBd Movie, The Bell Dimension

• 2D challenge . . . with 3D

  I decided to dabble in using live-action video, i.e, me, in combination with iClone 7 and PopVideo. I had bought a green screen kit from B&H long ago and I tried it on a studio shoot, but the lighting was too dim to get a clean chroma key. I tried this in Resolve and it […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-04-22

  2D, 3D, Animation, iClone 7, IRay, tBd Movie, The Bell Dimension

• Site renewed as videos moving to Vimeo . . .

  Here’s an IRay pic rendered at 100/180 as I work at reducing the scene load to speed up renders. This scene is a paltry 97Mb and consists of 2 planes, i.e., sky and temple with 5 royal tents that are 3D with physics applied. It also includes the desert sand floor. 2103 . . . […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-03-21

  2D, 3D, Animation, iClone 7, IRay, tBd Movie, The Bell Dimension

• PREVIEW is ready!

  

  I finally produced a decent PREVIEW that will be submitted to the animation festivals once a few quirks are worked out. Theses are mostly motion issues with the characters as they are either “canned” or BVH motion files with some manual edits included. Some not so pretty. :o) iClone is a quirky program to say […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-03-13

  3D, Animation, DAZ 3D, iClone 7, IRay, Lip Sync, PopVideo, ShotCut Video Editor, tBd Book, tBd Movie, The Bell Dimension

  3D, david j soto, iClone 7, love story, movie, scifi, ShotCut Video Editor, The Bell Dimension, Vimeo

• Storyboard animatic almost ready . . .

  My storyboard animatic is almost ready. I started adding “duplicate” characters within the same scene in order to speed up animation. This allows you to concentrate on just that one motion for that particular character in the scene. By using the “hide” or “unhide” feature, you can simply turn off characters you don’t need. For […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-02-09

  3D, Animation, iClone 7, IRay, Storyboard

  dragon, fabric, fashion, Fashion Dragon, Tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex

• Snippet of Storyboard . . .

  Here’s a pic of the storyboard I’m working on. Although a iC7 rendered image, it took forever and that wasn’t using IRay. A conundrum if there ever was. At a recent breakfast, my editor said my story needed more clarification. Of course, did I explain it like it was a pitch? No, not really as […]

  beeflowerpower

  2020-01-31

  3D, Animation, iClone 7, IRay, Storyboard

  dragon, fabric, fashion, Fashion Dragon, Tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex

• Storyborder . . .

  So I’ve been working away in iClone 7 creating 3 rather large scenes, i.e., 3.6 & 1.5 Gb respectively.  The problem is the IRay render plug-in I bought to render fabulous scenes is taking too many resources on my tiny 6GB Nvidia graphics card. What is sad is that when you look at the resources […]

  beeflowerpower

  2019-10-11

  Animation, DAZ 3D, iClone 7, IRay, KRITA, Storyboarder, tBd Movie