Speed Up iClone 3D Animation with 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse

iClone simplifies the world of 3D Animation with a user-friendly production environment that blends character animation, scene design and cinematic storytelling; quickly turning imagination into a reality. Seamlessly connecting to industry-leading SpaceMouse® from 3Dconnexion, animation creation in iClone becomes even more unleashed and efficient with the most handy and immersive navigation in the 3D world!

FREELY MAP SPACEMOUSE TO ICLONE FUNCTIONS

With the 3Dconnexion driver, over 700 iClone features can be custom mapped to SpaceMouse®.
Thanks to iClone's unique context sensitive design, when a user is focusing on the timeline, SpaceMouse® turns into a jog dial for fast frame search, track scroller, or zoom in/out.
Additionally, to make iClone more user-driven, almost all iClone functions can be customized to map user-defined hotkeys, especially Windows compatible devices.
Users can freely download three SpaceMouse® hotkey presets to work with different design purposes: Animation Editing, Object Transformation, and Light Arrangement.

WHY USERS ENJOY ANIMATING WITH SPACEMOUSE

"SpaceMouse® is great for anyone wanting to speed up their workflow, as moving around in 3d can be really important during animation, so the 6 degrees of freedom of the SpaceMouse® gives you the feeling of being physically present inside the 3d scene as you move around effortlessly." More

- Loïc Bramoullé, Art & Film Director | France

"SpaceMouse® is a great addition to your realtime workflow, the ability to setup custom buttons is great for changing cameras, lighting or triggering animations with new motion director feature. SpaceMouse® is intuitive to use and easy to set up with great potential for live streaming and virtual production workflows." More

- Digital Puppets, 2D/3D Animation Studio | UK

HOW SPACEMOUSE BENEFITS ICLONE ANIMATION

Animation Editing

  • Fast and intuitive editing. (Lock horizon suggested)
  • Adjustable Sensitivity to XYZ axis.
  • Fast traversal between End Effector Controllers.

Objects Transformation

  • Move, Rotate, Scale selected 3D objects, and optional Lock horizon.
  • Customizable Sensitivity to XYZ axis.
  • Click to duplicate a selected object.

Timeline Scrubbing

  • Paced animation playback.
  • Pan, zoom, and fast scroll through timeline when seeking frames.
  • Adaptive scroll speed according to dial range.
  • Custom hotkey triggers - set key, break, loop, speed, etc.

Timeline Scrubbing

  • Paced animation playback.
  • Pan, zoom, and fast scroll through timeline when seeking frames.
  • Adaptive scroll speed according to dial range.
  • Custom hotkey triggers - set key, break, loop, speed, etc

Camera Directing

  • Camera create, switch, and recording.
  • Navigate 3D scenes with steady camera controls, e.g. familiar Drone Camera operation.
  • Switch Focal Length (Lens type) for DOF (Depth of Field).

Light Arrangement

  • Create 3 types of lighting: Directional light, Spotlight, Point light.
  • Freely move and rotate lights with manageable gizmo show/hide.
  • Control switching target lights and On/Off.

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