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? […]
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 […]
I wasn’t really satisfied with the movie clip I posted last week showing the demise of Smuggler Bill & Exciseman Gill. However I know that however much I do, I will never be satisfied. To prevent procrastination from setting in, I posted it anyway. Now I have made a few improvements (I hope), so here it is again. […]
The last few posts have been describing the things I was putting together to shoot the final few scenes of the movie. “Alack! and alas! on what dangerous ground ! It’s enough to make one’s flesh to creep To stand on that fearful verge, and peep Down the rugged sides so dreadfully steep, Where the […]
This post is here to provide a link to a short video clip I made of Smuggler Bill riding his dapple-grey mare through a wood. Click on the picture above to see the clip on YouTube The beauty of this is that now I’ve got him riding through the wood, I make several sequences, where […]
With iClone, making our characters talk is fantastically easy. You can either speak directly into a microphone and see your character’s mouth move with your voice or do as I perfer to, which is to record a sound clip and then get your charater to talk to that. I asked my friend, the American Bill […]