top rated iclone animators!

 My name is René Jacob, born 1974. I live in Germany and earn my money as a film editor. I started using iClone at the end of 2012 when I was looking for software to develop my ideas on the computer. Since then I have been producing films with iClone in my spare time. 

I’m Benjamin Tuttle, a young filmmaker from the Midwest and now moving to several avenues with iClone. I won a free copy of iclone 4 from a competition many years ago and have never looked back.

https://vimeo.com/benjamintuttlevideo [Vimeo Page]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8BjoRLGCQq1S7pD0du0e_Q [You Tube]

No Peace at All

https://vimeo.com/208936775

It was my first film with iClone and I spent 8 months how to make a movie with it. The biggest advice is experiment with a first movie and watch what everybody else does; both good and bad. Apply what you learn, figure out what to improve on, and move forward.

Funny enough; this short film made it a few festivals, including one in Poland that showcased the best of machinima. Being my first project making it that far was a bit interesting to say.

Skygirl
https://vimeo.com/208938145

Skygirl was a collaboration with a few people when it comes to writing. It changed tone, character design, and software multiple times. This will most likely be rebooted into a mini series for Amazon video. 

Team X: Imprisoned

https://vimeo.com/208983147

My most recent short; it was a collaboration that sparked an interest in a universe that a friend created. That short project was quite a lot of fun working on; it was tongue in cheek and had a snarky tone that we often joke about.

Matt Bissett-Johnson is a Melbourne based political cartoonist and animator. He started an animating in the 80's as a teenager with super 8, later worked in a hand drawn animation studio, working as an inbetweener on Lil Elvis and the Truckstoppers. He got his first computer in 1997 and from 1998-2000 worked as an animator(2d and 3d) on Recovery, a popular Saturday morning music show. it was hard work, as computers were a bit crap back then. He now freelances as a cartoonist, illustrator, caricaturist and animator. He makes a few video clips for his own and other peoples bands, on of which got on Rage(and Rage New Zealand), a music video show. He submits films to festivals, one of his latest iclone movies, Magic Insect, got accepted into the Melbourne International Animation Festival. Iclone is great, it enables Matt to quickly and comparatively cheaply realize his film making ambitions.

Hi, I’m Mark ‘Bezzer’ Johnson and I’ve been an Iclone user for about 7 years now.

I’ve always been very passionate about movies since I was a kid, but I was always very apprehensive about actually getting into film making.

Not having much money and living in a small industrial town in the north of England (a town not exactly renowned for movie making...at all!), my ambitions were always kind of steered in other directions by the reality of my situation, so movie making itself, remained a dream.

In 2005, I bought a highly original PC tycoon style game called ‘The Movies’.

It featured a sandbox that enabled the player to create animated movies using preset scenes, characters and motions within an ingenious in-game movie creator.

You could direct, edit, title and render your movies and upload them to ‘the movies online’ forums, where other players could review your movies and leave a star rating.

I wasn’t very good to be honest, but it was my introduction to actual movie making (of sorts) and it would lead to an addiction and an ambition to better myself with each new project...I started my own little production studio, which I named ‘Dark Machine Pictures’.

In 2011 (I think), I took a gamble and bought Iclone 4 and was absolutely amazed by the potential, flexibility and freedom it offered.

I’d never used animation software before, but thanks to ‘The Movies’ game, it still felt like an environment that I was kind of familiar with and I really wanted to learn how to use it.

6 years on and we’re on Iclone 7...I’m currently working on my third feature length iclone project.

No film school, no scriptwriting classes, no past experience with 3d animation software...just a massive passion for film and some amazingly talented online friends to guide me down the years :-)

AFTER THE DEAD (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6245196/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNLwZrmo1VQ

SCARLET LAKE (2016)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6251148/?ref_=nm_knf_t1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddoqYW4VG4