I am receiving quite a number of emails and Facebook notifications from Reallusion offering me a free upgrade to iClone 6 if I buy iClone 5 content now. The issue is that I tend to only buy content that has potential to be used in my current project, the making of the Smuggler Bill movie. and that […]
After my far too lengthy exploration of Monkton & Sarre Mills in my last two posts, I decided it was time to get back to some movie making. Assuming that when finished my Smuggler’s Leap movie is going to be of somewhere between 5 – 10 minutes duration, will it hold attention for that length of time? […]
“Smuggler Bill Dashes round by the mill That stands near the road upon Monkton Hill” My searches of the internet for information about Monkton Hill, seemed to suggest that such a place exists in Chippenham, Wiltshire, but I could find no trace of it in Kent, except in references to the Smuggler’s Leap story in […]
I started the animation of Gill & the Devil Excisemen (1) chasing Smuggler Bill (2) with Bill and his dapple grey mare positioned well ahead of his pursuers. Because I had moved all of the horses to the end of the timeline at the end of the clip, this meant that as the clip proceeded, Gill and […]
When I started constructing this set, my terrain was a plain flat grass covered field. When I began adding houses, it looked a bit unnatural to have nice undamaged grass streets, so I decided some detailing needed to be added. I considered purchasing some cobbled streets and may still do so for some sets. The ready made ones […]
I decided that I will need to pepper my scenes with at least a village or two and the odd lone house for Smuggler Bill and Exciseman Gill to ride past. There are plenty of suitable buildings in the Google / Trimble 3D warehouse, but I decided to get started by buying an iClone content pack […]
The scene I am building will have 3 horses with riders in it. At some point two of the riders (Exciseman Gill and the Devil) will need to be riding next to each other. I therefore needed at least two paths, but decided to make three. 1. I selected and added the Path I made in […]
One thing I have found difficult is making horses smoothly gallop around bends, using just key frames on the Timeline in iClone 5. I decided to experiment with Paths. This post describes my first attempt at using the iClone Path feature. For this scene I want a flat landscape. With the exception of the cliffs […]
Now we have Exciseman Gill sitting on an Arabian horse, which started white, but was changed to black simply by reducing its brightness. Our new friend the Devilish Exciseman is now sitting on the dun horse. I needed to spread his legs a bit wider than the standard pose so they did not disappear into […]
Time to move on. The next scene (the second to last in the movie) requires three men and three horses. One man and one horse are not the same as we used in the final scene we made previously. As mentioned before I am making the movie in reverse order, since the number of people & horses required […]