Apologies for being a bit late to post here... a busy Macworld and a laptop with broken Wifi do not bode well for keeping updated on these sorts of things.
On behalf of the folks here at Reallusion, I would like to sincerely thank Alley for her heartfelt tribute to our friend and fellow developer Mike Aparicio.
Mike had been a Reallusion member for many years, and was a prolific and hardworking developer who always pushed the boundaries of Reallusion products and frequently produced innovative new content that our users knew and loved. He was also a valued member of the Reallusion developer community who produced Spanish language tutorials, helped others in the forums, worked closely with iClone staff on testing new content and software, and supported users new to the iClone community.
As an especially bright and inventive developer, Mike pioneered the very first Clonecloth for our G3 characters in iClone 4, and was one of the founding members of our Content Wizards theme store in the Marketplace. He also took the initiative to produce the very first developer-produced content for our Avatar Toolkit plug-in, and worked hard to produce creative new content based on iClone 5’s new physics engine at the time. Mike always took pride in producing fine iClone content, and our online marketplaces have benefited greatly from his quality skills as a result. He followed his passion and was producing new iClone content until the very end.
I think our lives have all been touched by Mike in some way, whether it be personally or through his art. Is is certainly a devastating blow to all of us to lose someone as passionate and driven as he was. He was a talented developer, an excellent teacher, and most of all a superb friend and overall person. He will be sorely missed.
Rest in peace, brother.
