MotionBuilder is a 3D character animation software produced by

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. It is used for

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, and traditional keyframe animation. It was originally named Filmbox when it was first created by Canadian company Kaydara, later acquired by Alias and renamed to MotionBuilder. Alias in turn was acquired by Autodesk. It is primarily used in film, games, television production, as well as other

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projects. At

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2012, Autodesk announced a partnership with Weta Digital and Lightstorm Entertainment to develop the next generation of the technology.

Features

* Facial and

skeletal animation Skeletal animation or rigging is a technique in computer animation in which a character (or other articulated object) is represented in two parts: a polygonal or parametric mesh representation of the surface of the object, and a hierarchical set ...

* Support for

devices * A

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that exposes functionality through Python and C++ via Qt and PySide. *

Ragdoll physics Ragdoll physics is a type of procedural animation used by physics engines, which is often used as a replacement for traditional static death animations in video games and Animation, animated films. As computers increased in power, it became pos ...

* Inverse kinematics * 3D

non-linear editing system Non-linear editing (NLE) is a form of offline editing for audio, video, and image editing. In offline editing, the original content is not modified in the course of editing. In non-linear editing, edits are specified and modified by speciali ...

* Direct connection to other Autodesk digital content creation tools * The FBX (.fbx) file format for 3D software interoperability has grown out of this package

References

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Features

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