My first honest-to-goodness CloneCloth Creation

This is not for the Reallusion costume contest - I was fiddling around with making a screenshot for another project and decided to experiment a bit with CloneCloth. I didn't try to do anything extensively fancy or difficult, but I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

Details on our Siggraph broadcast

The Wolf & Dulci Hour will be broadcast live from Siggraph on Wednesday, August 5th, from 2pm-around 4pm CST. You will be able to hear us through www.tmoaradio.com, and we will also be participating in our usual live chat through the TMOA chat room.

We will be with Reallusion at the Marriot New Orleans Meeting Room.

Reallusion's schedule that day is as follows:

9:30-10:00am - Welcome power users and guests
10:00-2:00 - iClone4 sneak peek preview/ live products demo / what's new / features
2:00-4:00 - Us!
4:00-5:00 - WidgetCast product demo

Siggraph Here We Come!

It's official - Wolf & I we will be broadcasting The Wolf & Dulci Hour live on the scene from Siggraph in New Orleans, as we share some space with Reallusion (iClone). Will we get them to spill more beans than they intend to during our frivolity? Tune in August 5th to find out!

We've received a couple of fantastic submissions in response to our theme song request - naturally, we can't have too many of those, so if you've been working on something, there's still time to send it on it to us.More details will be forthcoming - such as the exact start time and where you can find us if you're going to be at the event.

On tonight's show we will be discussing this a bit more - if you're going to Siggraph this year or have been to past conventions, we'd love to hear from you!

Confidence, Cockiness, Enthuasiasm, Self-Promotion?

In the recent podcast TheViewZ, episode 2, there was a discussion about confidence versus cockiness. The thought has been playing around in my mind since I listened to it.

Both extremes to me can be obnoxious and seem self-serving. There are people who are almost apologetic about their machinima work and there are people who seem to expect others to thank them for the honor of watching their movies. And all throughout the middle are multiple categories and styles and personalities.

The question is, do we really know how we are coming across? Is our enthusiasm for our own work coming across as obnoxious self-accolades? Is pointing out our technical flaws and creative failings being viewed as pleas for compliments? Are the methods we use for self-promotion actually pushing people away from our work?

Alas!

I want to start working on the latest competition from Reallusion - the Costume Design Competition.

I bought the G3 CloneCloth for both men and women when they first came out, installed them, looked at them in iClone, and haven't fiddled with them since. Today when I went into iClone to see what I could figure out, the clothed avatars for G3 CloneCloth are there but the CloneCloth models have vanished. Vanished! I reinstalled the men's version, and now the CloneCloth models are there but unusable - invalid avatar file error.

Needless to say I'm aggravated. Not to the point where I'm going to start ranting and raving, but I was gearing up to learn something that's been a challenge for me. I haven't even got remedial CloneCloth skills down yet. Now I have to waste that brain energy to figure out how to get the content back in, and by the time I'm done doing that, I know I'm not going to want to work on any projects.

So, Alas!

The One Where We Let Loose Our Inner Geeks

The July 13 Wolf & Dulci Hour is now available for download here.

This week we boldly go where no icloner has gone before. We use the force. And contemplate the ramifications of 1.21 gigawatts. You guessed it - it's our Wolf & Dulci Sci Fi Special!

And as the icing on the cake to this very special show, listeners & downloaders alike have to let their inner geeks out in order to get this week's freebie content - a nifty sci fi prop sure to make you drool for fantastical adventures.

Listen to Wolf explain to me the nuances of creating a realistic looking starfield. And was he stumped this week? One of our most exciting Stump The Wolf segments yet - I could practically hear our chatroom listeners scribbling away in their notebooks as he spoke.

If this has your tastebuds watering for some sci fi fun, check out these iClone flicks:

Robot Racers Promo by christy0 and mrjrm
The Lazarus 8 mini-series by Raven2Angel
Ghost in the Machine by Raven2Angel
The War of the Worlds by Chris62
Soulking by Peter Martin
Coming Home by Lizard3209
Stowaways by VectisEthaniel
Star Wars the iClone Version by animatechnica

Tonight on the Wolf &Dulci Hour....

iClone and Space....space.....space (like my cool echo effect there?)

On tonight's show one of the many many many topics we will be discussing is iClone and Science Fiction. After my appearance on the Roger & Ken Show yesterday, I feel the need to ingratiate myself even further into the sci fi subsection here on TMU. So if you've been wondering what/why/how makes iClone cool for sci fi productions - tune in tonight!

Tune in here at 9PM CST to join in the fun.

Interview/Disucssion tomorrow on TMOA

Just in case you haven't heard me babble enough of late, tomorrow I will be on the Roger & Ken Show to discuss....well, anything they ask me!

Their show starts at 1pm CST but I don't expect to be on the air until sometime after 2:30.

You can listen to the show here.

The One Where We Get All Dressed Up

July 6,2009 Wolf & Dulci Hour Download

• Alley & her work with Bigboss' SkinTight series
• Animatechnica & CloneCloth for G2 and CloneCloth for G3
• Great clothing freebies available from CoolClones
• Tons of tips on utilizing CloneCloth
• The freebie of the week exemplifying how easy it is to use the Google Sketchup Warehouse hand-in-hand with 3DXchange
• A look at Omanuel's latest movie - Injured Bad
• And a special petition to Reallusion to put a stopgap in before replacing saved projects

Thanks as always to our listeners, downloaders (that should be a word if it isn't already), and the man behind the TMOA curtain - Ken!

CloneCloth Experts

On tonight's Wolf & Dulci Hour we will have two CloneCloth experts on to discuss the various features of that software.

Alley will be focusing on her work with Bigboss' SkinTight series, and Animatechnica will be focusing on CloneCloth for G2 and CloneCloth for G3.


The show starts at 9pm CST - Listen Here and Join the Chat Here.

John Martin on Wolf & Dulci Hour - Download

We had the pleasure of talking with John Martin last night on the Wolf & Dulci Hour about Reallusion and his latest movie. Although some might argue that John had a momentary loss of sanity by agreeing to join us, we really enjoyed the opportunity to chat with him. The download of that show is now available here.