Hello,

I am Mick Glant (mglant) and I am primarily using iClone and Crazy Talk for instruction in a variety of medical laboratory and clinical trials work.  This includes both process and diagnostic instruction so a component of medical illustration at the macroscopic and microscopic level.  Now with molecular therapies and other designer agents, even conceptual illustrations are being used.  This also includes live video so much of my intial work has been in using video with limited animation mainly rendered in Poser.  I used Newtek VT2-4 and have dabbled in Lightwave v6-v9, Vue 4-6 Xstream.  I have a variety of tools but do much of this on "my free time" so until I "retire" in about 2 years this is hobby that I occasionally use at work.   I am exploring more rapid development of animation scenes and feel iClone and CrazyTalk may offer the speed that I can actually develop more animation quickly and not find it is just too time consuming to accomplish.  I have been using computers for quite a while and design databases for medical diagnostics and clinical trials.  I am also involved in a rock 'n roll/blues/whatever band and like experimental short film and some graphic novel stylized presentations.  I have intended for years to use the combination of Poser,   I have recent checked out iClone, but have so much Poser type content that I have held off.  Now with the price and conversion system, I have made the leap. 

I did note that there is the use of Credo Motions files and I have own the full set of Lifeforms 4 and several of the Credo Motion libraries.  Are these the same as those sold in the iClone store?  If not can I use all of my files I already own?   I have just started looking at the instructional videos, but am excited about the opportunities.   Are there many other resources besides those at the Reallusion site?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Hi Mick,

Welcome to the forum. What a fascinating use of iClone and Crazytalk you have planned. I'm very impressed by your ideas.

With regards to motions, you can import .BVH animations into iClone via the BVH Converter. The system isn't perfect yet so you may need to experiment with the profile editor to get the animations to look just right but some do come into iClone perfectly. All motions in iClone are stored in .VNS format once brought in.

Pete

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Hi there and welcome.

Fascinating use of iClone indeed.

You may want to take a look at these sites which provides tips, tricks, tutorials and content for iClone software and includes several members who already use iClone in a teaching capacity.

www.coolclones.com

www.coolcreators.com

Hope you enjoy the iClone experience.

Shy

"O wad some Power the gift tae gie us, to see oursels as ithers see us!"

I would be very interested in how things turn out for you. I am always looking at ways iClone and Crazy talk could be used in education. This thread got my attention as we (where I work) have just signed up with a TV channel to beam medical issues into doctor's surgeries and into schools. These could  be healthy living issues as well as  medical bulletins. So to come across what you are thinking of doing with these programmes was fantastic. Please keep us informed!!

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Well I did not know how often or quickly these posts get replies, but now I see in my initial post that I did not complete a thought... I was saying that I have been contemplating using Poser, Vue and Lightwave to make animations, but so far the lack of time has been a barrier.  I am a physician/cytopathologist with extensive experience in medical informatics and post graduate education.  I am in a field where visual pattern recognition is a full-time job that translates into detecting and staging malignancies that morphologically express their aberrancies in cellular and architectural tissue patterns.  Various stains are used to detect cellular types and products of metabolism or antigen expression.  Computers are commonly used to measure and quantify specific things but pattern recognition is way beyond the capacity of any developed programs.  We a just on the verge of digitizing microscopy, unlike radiology that has naturally migrated to the digital format. 

Education in medicine is going to explode and the delivery of visual messages will become ubiquitous with all of the peripheral devices that will become routine.  The animation community has recently found cinema again, just wait until the rest of society jumps on board, there will be much more opportunities in animation and tools such as iClone and CrazyTalk are moving in the right direction.  I am looking forward to how easy it would be to move over my >60 gigs of content from Poser, Vue and Lightwave.  I also have all of the DAZ software (Carrara 6 Pro, DAZ Studio, Hexagon, LipSync), all of the Sony suite (Sound Forge, Acid Pro, Vegas, DVD architect and Cinescore)  and various others such as Silo and about every plugin for Poser made.   I collect stuff.   ON the education side I have Authorware and the full Macromedia/Adobe core products).  I have developed and maintain a MOODLE website (the largest open source "Learning Management System" that converts it users pages into over 50 languages).

Too many ideas and not enough time.  Well I have to practice my guitar for a recording session on December 8th, so not much time to chat for now.  Thanks all for the motion file information, I will dig out the Lifeforms CDs/DVDs and check out an import.  Just order the 1/4 Essentials Pack and as you know it is a physical shipment so hopefully I can play a Christmas with this stuff.

Until later,

Best regards

Mick Glant