Well it's finally here. The long awaited full retail version of iClone 3 has shipped to the masses. The big release on the great sounding 08-08-08 turned out to be an actual 09-08-08 (or 08-09-08 depending where you live). Now who's counting right? Well lot's of people if the Reallusion forum was anything to go by. It was pretty insane on the forum where nearly everyone took the delay in good spirits and seemed to have fun with some real crazy postings taking place while they camped out for the long haul. It was good fun ride considering the disappointment over the delay.
What wasn't so good was that once it did get released, came the agonizing wait for the program to download. The installer weighed in at around 375mb, that's not counting the extra 300+mb resource file and man I was getting a mind numbing 10KB/Sec which is not good at all. It wasn't so bad for me because I already had the Beta still installed but I really felt for those who had been waiting so long for this only to be met with 8 hour+ download times.
Anyway I finally got the retail version fully downloaded today at around 6pm and now I'm up and running properly. I'll be posting more about iClone 3 over the coming days as you can imagine, but for now I just want to say that this really is an amazing piece of software. If you have even a slight interest in 3D then you need this program. The possibilities are truly out of this world.
Take a look the screenshot above taken from the brilliant intro video featuring Zack the iClone robot. These are just straight renders from IC3, no fancy stuff done to them in photoshop. Truly fantastic.
