I'm not a newcomer, but I'm still considering getting it, just to see how it is taught. I've learned iClone in a very unsystematic way (by using it) and some areas are still a mystery.

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I am not an iClone professional but I am not a newcomer either but I bought this expecting it would be good to watch the workflows someone else does to complete their projects...start to end as much as the potential of learning things.
Gone through the introductory user interface course. The majority I knew however I did learn a few things I didn't know. A few things I didn't realise and a few things I had forgotten about.
Going through the scene creation course now (and doing the projects as instructed). About 1/6th of the way through it and not learning that much yet however I am finding that it is indeed good to see someone else's workflow in a complete beginning to end process. I will probably adjust some of my workflows because of this so that is worth something.
The animation and lighting is what I am looking forward to most of all but I can tell you that there is so much to do within all 4 courses that its going to take a quite a while to get through it all.
So I think its going to be pretty thorough, it has been so far. He also deliberately makes mistakes in order to demonstrate how to find out why things happen and how to fix them.
ie. The course is not a flow of everything working perfectly in the first attempt, he "accidentally" discovers common problems that occur as he goes through the development of the project and then shows how to fix them.

Is it worth the $79 I paid? It certainly depends on the completeness of your knowledge I suppose and its too early for me to say yet but for me......yes I think it will be.
Learning iClone I have found is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. This is going to help me link what I know together better I think
Also, the instructors presentation voice is growing on me. He does a pretty good job.

So in conclusion.
Yes I am glad I bought it


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Thanks for your review, Delerna! That was helpful.

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Greetings everyone,

I am Alan Marques and I am responsible for the iC6 Fundamentals training series in so much that I recorded it and indeed it is my face & voice that you have to live with.  Sorry about that.

I would like to apologies on behalf of MakinMovies in regard the damaged videos in the course.  We did try and double check everything and did ask if we could test the installer before public release but that seemed to slip through the net.  I generated hundreds of assets and more than 450 videos and 51 hours of recordings which took many months, so the reality is that we have made some mistakes.  Again my apologies.

We also discovered that the audio dialogue for the actors in the F103 course was missing from the delivery and again this as well as the Media offline issue has already been fixed.  If you still do not receive an update to the files you have downloaded then please mention it in this thread and I will check for you.

I very much hope that people find this course useful and I would like to say thank you for the positive comments so far in this thread.  Having said that I am not complacent and if anyone feels there are issues or they would like to make a comment on the presentation/content etc then I am very happy to take on-board constructive criticism, no one is above learning anything new not even myself after all my years in the industry I still learn many new things to this very day and indeed into the future.

One of the reasons I love this industry. 

All the best

Alan Marques



Alan M

Greetings Alan,

I'm looking forward to the iC6 Fundamentals training series, it looks to be very well thought out and informative and just what I need to put all the pieces together in one place.  :)


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Thank you and I very much hope that you find the courses useful.

all the best



Alan M

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.  I am including a list of all the videos in this course for you to check.  Having looked at your screen grab it looks like the course is incomplete regardless of the annoying duplicates but it would be good to confirm this if you have the time.  I have checked the delivery folder on the server that Reallusion has access to and I can find no issues with the contents  In fact the list that you see here is a listing of that very folder.  My best guess is an error was made when Reallusion packaged up the contents of that folder for delivery but I cannot state that for a fact as I do not work directly for RL so did not play a part in the packaging and marketing.

Having said that it is a big error for which I apologise.  I have notified Reallusion and asked them to not only check the delivery but also to get back to me when it is fixed so that I can make sure everyone is aware that it has been dealt with.

In the interim here is the list of videos that should be there for the F104 course:


Alan M

I manually deleted all those duplicates and yes it's correct. But I still hope RL fix this in the first place before they put them in the content store so it can save us lots of time. That said, your trainging courses is very helpful to me, plz keep up the good work! I'll be the first one to buy them.

I can confirm the duplicate videos in F104.

I would also really like to know just who came up with the glorious idea of wasting users' time by forcing them to constantly load clips under 30 secs in a video player!!!! :alien::w00t: A first term AE could have edited the stuff into a meaningful length using Windows Media player. :Whistling:

Gerry

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