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Now if I had a straight on image of Sachi MacClaine's face at around say 10-12 years old, IÂ could even create an animated Regan character from THAT. :)Â I'm sure I could probably find such images on Google, and make an animated Shirley and Sachi MacClaine as Chris and Regan MacNeil. 🙂
Lemme try to tackle your questions one at a time here, Sofia.
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Steve, can you create your own animations for the sims 2 and add them to the game? Is it possible by using iClone?
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A:  I don't know if iClone is cross compatible with the Sims games. I never really monkeyed with the Sims, so I cannot speak to that experience.
SOFIA Q:
Can you make your 3D Regan a little girl instead of a grown up woman?
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A:Well, when I used the face of Linda Blair on the character model, it was of Regan at the appropriate age in the film. Unfortunately, cherub-like faces don't always translate well in iClone.  I'll try to see if I can make her a look even younger in my next project, but I am kinda partial to the Linda Blair Regan. I did reduce her size to where she might roughly be around 5 ft tall, to make her smaller than her mom and the priests.
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SOFIA Q:
OH- and, how did you make her levitate?? I wish that was possible with The Sims game!
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A: Because she was a manipulatable object in iClone, I can just make her rise on the Z axis at will.  Keyframing, that kind of thing. Sims is a game where you just have characters interact….so it's not really an animation control scenario.  iClone is an animation program, so you can make your characters and objects do pretty much whatever you want.
 I even tried to get the “Captain Howdy” face to appear the very first time you see the demonic Regan in my video, but it didn't come through quite like I'd hoped…but, I have other options available the next time I attempt that.mego73 said:
I know what you mean, whenever I see possessed Regan, I want it to be a planned and braced for sighting 🙂
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Steve Dunlap said:
I hear ya, Mego.
When I pop in a movie to fall asleep to, it has to be something serene. Now, granted, The Exorcist has a quiet enough opening, but it's the stuff beyond it that would likely wake me up and keep me from going back to sleep. LOL!
When I fall asleep to a movie, it's usually something like StarGate, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, one of the Harry Potter movies, Rob Roy, or one of the Star Trek movies.
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Funny story:
I have a screensaver I made up of a moving logo for Battlestar Galactica. So that was the only thing that showed up on my screensaver for my laptop. Well….I did my little Exorcist tribute, and a lot of the pics of the actors (especially Linda Blair, both pre-and full on possession mode) ended up on my “Pictures” document, which automatically became (unbeknownst to me) part of my screensaver.
Well, I don't know how the hell I did it, but I went to sleep one night, and every time I woke up, I always caught the Galactica segment of the screensaver sequence.
But one night I walked into my bedroom, and facing me on the computer was the demonic face of Regan…..damn near scared the bejeezus out of me.  So I quickly Exorcised those images from the screensaver segment, and placed them in a seperate document. LOL!
Exactly! LOL!!!!!
I hear ya, Mego.
When I pop in a movie to fall asleep to, it has to be something serene. Now, granted, The Exorcist has a quiet enough opening, but it's the stuff beyond it that would likely wake me up and keep me from going back to sleep. LOL!
When I fall asleep to a movie, it's usually something like StarGate, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith, one of the Harry Potter movies, Rob Roy, or one of the Star Trek movies.
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Funny story:
I have a screensaver I made up of a moving logo for Battlestar Galactica. So that was the only thing that showed up on my screensaver for my laptop. Well….I did my little Exorcist tribute, and a lot of the pics of the actors (especially Linda Blair, both pre-and full on possession mode) ended up on my “Pictures” document, which automatically became (unbeknownst to me) part of my screensaver.
Well, I don't know how the hell I did it, but I went to sleep one night, and every time I woke up, I always caught the Galactica segment of the screensaver sequence.
But one night I walked into my bedroom, and facing me on the computer was the demonic face of Regan…..damn near scared the bejeezus out of me.  So I quickly Exorcised those images from the screensaver segment, and placed them in a seperate document. LOL!
Btw, Sofia, iClone is only about 150-200 dollars, and is really simple to learn.  You can also get a demo version of iClone (which lacks a few capabilities of the full version but it still does a VERY impressive job.)
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I got started in iClone when it came as demo software with Magix Movie Edit Pro 16.  Now that MMEP 17 is out, you can get the current demo version of iClone with it.Â
Most kind, everyone. Thank you so much.
Sofia, thank you for the very kind words.  I wish I knew more about The Sims (I've been debating getting the Sims 3 game). iClone, as you can see, allows me a great deal of freedom. I could've done a lot of the character animations even better, but I wanted to get this out quickly. Believe me, a lot of room for improvement on my part. Â
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And If I can, I shall be happy to help with your project. You've done an excellent job covering scenes that were not in the movie, but in the novel….another sort of director's cut, if you will.
Hammer, I was really fortunate when I found the “living room” set from iClone's Backstage content store.  The set up for it was too perfect….especially the stair case. I managed to build Regan's bedroom and surrounding areas in just about three hours.  Certain other things were also premade the bed (although I created the bed posts), the books and bookshelf, the dresser drawers and the big chair in Rags' room were all stuff I could download from the Backstage store.
As for the characters, I used the best possible photographs I could find of the original actors, and placed them on the faces of the virtual charactters. I had to design the costumes myself.  Pazuzu was a still shot of the original sculpture from the movie, superimposed onto a flat plane.
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And of course, we all know where I got the audio and sound effects.
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Thank you again, everyone. I kept all the sets I built, just in case I decide to do another.
Yeah…it was a pretty laughable movie, but it still had a least a couple of chills.Â
I can guarantee you this though….I'd never have been able to watch this movie as a kid….cheesy or not, it would've been another “Exorcist” to me. LOL!
Indeed, you did a great job Sofia. Keep up the good work. I'm interested in seeing how you'll deal with the actual possession..
And I posted my own little video tribute to The Exorcist, using iClone. It took me all of a day to put it together. I hope you'll enjoy it.
DaH!!! That'll learn me to not read the credits list on the DVD. LOL!
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Yeah, I'd heard that there were some “sequels in title” to Beyond the Door, but I never saw any of them.  Never heard off any of the other movies, but I'll have to check 'em out.  Thanks for the headsup.
Poor girl. To her credit, she showed she was willing to go the distance physically to get certain scenes done.
WOW! Those are pretty cool, Sofia.
 Nicely made and edited.Â
This almost makes me want to pursue doing shots from The Exorcist with my 3D animation program “iClone 4.2 PRO”. Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've read the novel, mine would almost end up being alternate views/takes from the film itself.
