Creating 3D films in real-time

This tutorial helps you create your first 3D film. Here you will learn how to:

• Create a virtual 3D head ready for automatic facial animation

• Create a complete 3D character with customizable wardrobe

  • Define an upper body for your character
  • Define a lower body for your character
  • Give your character shoes
  • Change your character's skin tone

• Animate your character

• Add a music track

• Set a background scene

• Add props to the scene

• Set the camera angle

• Adjust the lighting effects

• Export 3D films in a number of different media output formats

Before you begin this tutorial you must first define a project. You can use either a project you have created yourself, or one of the existing template projects.

Click the project button and double click one of the projects in the file manager pane to open it. For these tutorials we recommend that you start with the Default template. Double click the Default project in the file manager pane or just click the New project button. It's a basic project with only one default character in the scene. You can add new elements to it, like more characters, scenery, props, animated cameras, etc..., and change any existing elements as required and all in real-time.

Note:You can save changes to your project by clicking the Save button. Select a name and a location on your hard disk to save the project and click the save button.

Press the Add button to add the current project to the Custom tab. The Custom tab hold the library of items you create and save inside iClone.