MotionBuilder is a 3D character animation 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 ...

motion capture Motion capture (sometimes referred as mo-cap or mocap, for short) is the process of recording the movement of objects or people. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, medical applications, and for validation of computer vision and robo ...

, and traditional

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. 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

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradi ...

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

Features

* Facial and skeletal animation * Support for

devices * A

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

* Direct connection to other Autodesk digital content creation tools * The

FBX FBX (''Filmbox'') is a proprietary file format () developed by Kaydara and owned by Autodesk since 2006. It is used to provide interoperability between digital content creation applications. FBX is also part of Autodesk Gameware, a series of vid ...

(.fbx) file format for

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interoperability has grown out of this package

References

3D graphics software Autodesk products Proprietary software that uses Qt Proprietary commercial software for Linux {{graphics-software-stub

Features

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