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1. RGAC - Khenton's Curse: Recourse

   

   Topic by animagical · May 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   I finally have the time to start a WIP thread for my contribution to this contest. First an introduction. Even though my forum handle is "animagical", I'm actually know as "animagic" over at the RL forum. My specialty is making animated films using iClone, which I have been doing for several years. I am not a modeler, so I…

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   Reply by animagical · May 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   By the way, you can continue to make adjustments as you see fit. It is best to this with a "blank" version of the character without animation (changes in dimension will cause any animation of the character to be deleted, for example). Once you have made your changes, you can then save your new version. In any scenes where…

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   Reply by animagical · Jun 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   Paths in iClone are used to force a character, prop, or camera to follow a specific course. For example, the character may be walking but not in one straight line, in which case a path is called for. A path is also used in case a surface or terrain is uneven or has different heights. By having the path follow the terrain…

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   Reply by animagical · May 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   It is actually quicker to this, then write it all down! After the face has been saved, it will be applied to the avatar, adjusting the skin color in the process: The default lighting with shadows is not very suitable to judge adjustments, so we will change that first to the "point-4 sides" setting: That's better. I…

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   Reply by animagical · Jun 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   Well, I just messed up my reply... :'( It had an elaborate explanation of how I did this scene. Briefly, I used one reference character positioned the same as the beginning of the next scene. The character to be animated was given the same X, Y, and Z coordinates. I applied the Idle_to_SitC01 motion clip to that character…

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   Reply by animagical · May 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   In this next stage, we are going to import the model into 3DXchange and create sub-props out of the components. On the left we see the various components we created. In SketchUp, front and back faces are separated, so each component is listed twice. In high-quality SketchUp models you can dispense with the back faces, but…

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   Reply by animagical · Jun 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   Thanks, windtalker! Well it is time for an update. I'm retiring the end of the month from my day job and it suddenly seems that work is piling up. They don't want me to leave but it's time for me to do something else: animation for example! I have been working on a hideout for Lheandor, Kazhandrah's great-grandfather, who…

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   Reply by animagical · Jun 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   @Adityedit: Thank you for your comment. There sure are great contributions in this contest. But, even if I don't win, participating is still valuable to me as it has given me an idea for my next film. In the interest of time, I am going to show you setups in iClone of scene 2 and 3 of my cinematic and then a clip of the…

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   Reply by animagical · Jun 2015 · Home› Contests & Challenges Archives› Reallusion Game Character Animation Contest

   Website is back up again. To use a path, you have to create one first. If you have a terrain, then it will be created on the terrain, otherwise it will be created at level 0.00 (Z value). My problem is that I have a cave and if I added those to the terrain, the path will be created on top of the cave, not on the actual…