Mrtobycook you nailed it on the head. 

I was checking in to see if you accepted my request OP.

Once in a while I will hold lectures on iclone animation and I'm currently working on one that deals with character interaction and movement.

The first process is simple and gives the first examples of good animation, but it's something many icloners, including myself for a time, have struggled with. 

Can you make a character turn their head in a realistic and natural way? It involves a lot of the fundamentals. 

You learn that and you learn the principles of good animation and you can build from there. It takes patience and a lot of work. 

Character interactions like a kiss take a lot of adjustments, keyframing, heavy use of facial expressions, and a little clever use of camera angles. All this needs to be learned one step at a time.

iClone Certified Director and makes miserable Westerns.

Yes I wish we all had time to do more training videos though, as I truly love Iclone and I think it has amazing possibilities. It’s just evolved into a very feature-rich tool that is very difficult to just “dive into”.

I don’t have the coding skills but I would love to create some kind of overlay for Iclone that simplified it - renaming tools and adding in-context help. I’d also love to have six months to sit in a cabin somewhere and re-write the manual lol. The team has done an amazing job but it’s impenetrable for new users! :)

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Yes.  Please send a link to your mentioned videos.

Haven't used Iclone yet but I'll give the same advice that Richard Williams gave his students. Learn to use 2B first, meaning  learn to use a pencil and draw poses...lots of poses.

All animation principles are the same no matter what medium, read the Illusion of life and the animators survival kit then apply those principles to the software you use. 

Hope that helps.

Peter