Forum: Carrara


Subject: IClone As Carrara Replacement: Mature And Ready For Instant Gratification..

dr_bernie opened this issue on Mar 24, 2018 ยท 29 posts


dr_bernie posted Fri, 31 August 2018 at 2:17 PM

Over the years IClone has turned from a hobbyist gadget into a rock-solid no-holds-barred professional animation software.

What IClone offers:

  1. A professional modern GUI, with adjustable UI font size.
  2. A professional timeline and graph editor.
  3. A professional 3D particle generator, PopcornFX, used and tested in numerous games.
  4. An animation infrastructure with near-Maya like features and capabilities.
  5. Two physics engine, Bullet and PhysX (if you have an NVidia graphics card).
  6. A soon to be released IRay renderer that would let IClone produce photorealistic outputs.
  7. A soon to be released python-based scripting system to extend IClone's already mind-numbing features.
  8. And on and on. I let you do your own research.

(Some of the features above are paid plugins).

The number of movies and animations made with IClone is so large that I can't mention them all here. This is my favorite though: The Amazing Adventures of Young Tesla.

Considering that this movie was made around 5 years ago with an older version of IClone, you can imagine what the latest IClone should be capable of.

From an animation point of view, especially character animation, Carrara is so weak, and IClone is so strong, that if you use Carrara over IClone, well, sorry to tell you, but you just don't know what you are doing.