MotionBuilder is a 3D

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software produced by

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. It is used for

virtual cinematography Virtual cinematography is the set of cinematographic techniques performed in a computer graphics environment. It includes a wide variety of subjects like photographing real objects, often with stereo or multi-camera setup, for the purpose of rec ...

, motion capture, 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 SIGGRAPH 2012, Autodesk announced a partnership with Weta Digital and

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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 surface representation used to draw the character (called the ''mesh'' or ''skin'') and a hierarc ...

* Support for motion capture devices * A

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that exposes functionality through

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and

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via Qt and

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. *

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 animated films. As computers increased in power, it became possible to d ...

* Inverse kinematics * 3D

non-linear editing system Non-linear editing 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 specialized sof ...

* Direct connection to other Autodesk digital content creation tools * The FBX (.fbx) file format for

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interoperability has grown out of this package

References

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Features

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