Importing a Character for iClone Machinima

Series Summary

Cartoons began as high energy low quality creative adventure in the early twentieth century. Through its development, technology has continued to advance to make animation more advanced, more believable, and easier to use. Now with the onset of computers and media based software, animation has become 3D animation. One of the many computer programs capable of such type of animation is called iClone Machinima. With the help of the experts at ExpertVillage, you can begin computer animation today!

In this free video series, watch as expert 3D animator and developer teaches you how to use iClone Machinima Filmmaking. Learn how to import backgrounds, how to add motion to your characters, how to frame the shot, how to position characters, how to save projects in iClone Machinima, how to set up rendering settings, and how to frame iClone shots. 3D Animation is a great technological advancement for animators everywhere and can help you improve your creative outlets.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village this is Paul Louis and today I'm going to give you some basic iClone Machinima filmmaking tips and techniques. The first thing we're going to do with our iClone Machinima filmmaking tips and techniques is we're going to open up our iClone program. And this is basically the interface for our iClone program. iClone is an amazing tool to create Machinima filmmaking , a lot of people are use gaming characters. The beauty of using iClone is that after you produce your Machinima film you own the rights to your movie. So when you open iClone you see that there's a default characters here. I want to bring in a new character, one of the characters so I'm going to click on tools and character and in my custom section I have a bunch of characters I've created. And one character that I want to use for this particular little movie is going to be a character called Dr. Dribble. And Dr. Dribble is a, is a toon type of character. Kind of a bumbling little doctor and if I could find him here this is all alphabetized so he should be under D. There he is Dr. Dribble. Double click on the character of your choice. I'll click on Dr. Dribble here and there he is imported into the window. And as you can see he's a lot smaller than that default character was but that was intentional. He has to be smaller in relation to other characters in the, in the film."