Greetings fellow Iclonians,
It has been a highly productive year of asset creations here at thebiz productions with plenty more in store soon.  Here's a few of my favorite releases from 2019!

The Total Maze Package - 3 Maze props; The Garden Hedge Maze, The Desert Labyrinth and the Temple Maze each with terrains and paths to the center.


The Putt Hut - Nine holes of mini-golf with fountains, benches, umbrellas and a managers shack.  


The Attic - A place to play some D&D, store your old comic books, illegitimate children and a dusty lamp.

Went on summer vacation with the fam and managed to create this groovy hot tub/jacuzzi during a few of the down times when not in the pool or ocean.  Includes 2 modified legacy particles (bubbles & water ripples), a wooden deck with subprop fence panels and deck/pool chairs to soak up the sun.  Just 450 points.

A successful vacation all the way around!

I love your props Biz. I use a lot of them and they always look fantastic. 
Your work has been a great asset to all of my productions.

pete



http://www.youtube.com/user/peterblood50?feature=mhee

Thanks for the kind words Peter.  I've switched to modeling in Blender this year and I'm really happy with the results which has led to a more active role in the marketplace.  

Looking forward to more tales of Arianna!

Howdy all.  This month I've been focused on creating morphing props (September Morph for all you Neil Diamond fans...). 

First off I released a Morphing Umbrella pack that has three umbrellas (a single color, a rose and a spiral umbrella) that can be opened and closed using a single morph.  Keep dry on the fly!  Mason is so happy and satisfied!



Next up I released a Morphing Trampoline with 4 morphs of varying bounce depths and one off center bounce morph.  Get your bounce on like Kim Jong-Un! 
Little side note, our old neighbor gave my son a small backyard trampoline (which Kid Millions loved) and would always ask him if he was getting his tramp on.  Strange bit of phrasing but hey, free trampoline!



Now this morning I've released a Free Morphing Squeeze Bottle so anyone who's never played with morph props has a chance to download the bottle and play around with it to see the possibilities of morph props.  Be sure to check out Mason angrilly squeezing that bottle in the video.  So angry.  Anywho, have fun!

Nice morphing props!
And thanx for your Squeeze Bottle Freebie


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Thanks (and your're welcome!) ToyStoryLab. 

I had been meaning to learn morphs for a while for the express purpose of making a functional umbrella.  I think it worked out pretty well.  I found Warlord's video tutorial very helpful (below).  I also need to take a look at Lord Ashes multi step morph tool soon as it definitely adds new functionality to the morphing process.  Hoping to add more morph props in the near future.

Good morning Icloners!  Way back when, I was watching a classic cartoon and thinking about how us poor 3D animation hobby folks could pull off those neat squash and stretch animations everywhere.  Then along came the IC7 morph abilities and I filed this idea into my noggin.  Now this weekend I've managed to release Willie's Steamboat!  It's similar to a classic boat from cartoon history with cartoony morphs on the steam pipes, flag and all three steam whistles.  Take a look at the video to see it in action.   





As a last touch for the prop I modelled a black steam cloud that I figured would morph in shape and then dissolve.  However, the prop would have to be duplicated for each iteration of the steam pipe morph which was a big pain in the butt.  Therefore I modded a legacy "puff" particle and managed to get the timing in sync with the animation (as well as starting the second emitter one cycle behind to have them offset).  Pretty happy about how the whole thing turned out.  

Speaking of classic cartoons, today I've released the Cartoon Family TV Room.  No fancy morphs in this one but I'm happy with how it came out.  The phone was a particular source of frustration and then pride.  Anywho, its perfect for toon shading or rich GI lighting (as seen in the video).  Impress your friends with your own couch gags!  Happy filming.

Here's an interesting project I've been working on for a while and released on the marketplace today - Davinci's...er TheBiz's Last Supper.  The project includes the room with exterior backdrop, wall tapestries, table with bread, oranges, wine glasses and plates, a knife accessory and 13 posed characters.  I posed the characters using the Chuck G5 and then replaced him with clonebone characters to reduce the project size.  To use your character in the project just drag and drop onto the selected clonebone and then adjust the hip/waist up/down in the edit motion layer tool. Poses were created with the chuck character so similarly sized characters should require only minor position edits.