lunarny (3/15/2018)
Dear Mr. Marques: Greetings! I'm new to iClone, and indeed new to the PC world, having been a Mac user for 30+ years. I'm interested in purchasing your course for iClone, but know it is for iClone V6. Is the interface and functionality close enough between 6 and 7 to make it worthwhile for a n00b such as myself? Thanks very much. Jeff DavisJeff greetings,
First off, a big apology from myself about such a late reply, I thought I had this thread set to notify me by email, but for some reason I did not get pinged. Not sure why, it is a two year old thread.
Anyhow, as to your question about the iC6 Fundamentals Course here are my thoughts.
A disclaimer here: as co-creator of the course and indeed the person who actually designed it and presented it I have a certain bias as I get royalty's for every copy sold so it is going to be hard for me to say 'do not buy the course' just as it would be to say 'buy the course'. However, having said that my personal moral compass would not allow me to out right recommend something based purely on my own desire to sell copies of the course.
What I would say is this. There are still whole sections of the course that will still be relevant to iClone 7. However it is true that others, less so. An example would be the first module on the UI/Interface. Reallusion have changed the interface quite a bit between 6 & 7. There are new items in the pull down menus and indeed some menu items have been not only moved around but also in some cases move out of the pull-down menu and into a dialog box. So, in this case I would say that the first module may not be very useful to you because of the significant differences you will find.
I cannot give you a blow by blow list of differences as it would take considerable time but an example of aspects of the course that would still be useful would be the lighting one from the fact that I teach basic three-point lighting which it relevant to any CGI package so that would still be useful. Also the camera module is still very worthwhile even without the fact that it does not obviously cover the new features of the iC7 cameras like the film back.
Sorry I cannot give you a hard and fast answer but if you want to save money then to be honest the RL YouTube channel is pretty good at covering aspects of the software though I will agree that it is un-structured which is not as nice as learning with a project based approach.
Alan M