Buy a license of Autodesk
®
MotionBuilder
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3D character animation software today and
experience the freedom of real time.
Autodesk MotionBuilder is an ideal tool for
high-volume game animation pipelines,
director-driven virtual cinematography, and
real-time character simulations.
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Increased Productivity Through Real-Time Performance
Wherever characters need to be animated, Autodesk
®
MotionBuilder
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software can help you to increase your
productivity and achieve higher-quality results. In fact, many
facilities have achieved up to a 250 percent gain in animation
output per artist using MotionBuilder. Built on a real-time
3D architecture, MotionBuilder provides a highly responsive,
interactive environment to create, edit, and play back complex
character animation.
2
Motion Capture Editing and Data Cleanup
When the motion capture studio session stops, animators
know their job is just beginning. With MotionBuilder, you
can import or capture live files from any industry-standard
motion capture system and use the powerful cleanup, filtering,
blending, and editing features to manipulate and massage
dense data on the fly. Once the data is prepared, the Function
Curve layering system enables you to refine, edit, and iterate
your animations nondestructively, all in real time.
3
Pre-Visualization
Planning upfront can save time, budget, and frustration later
in the production process. Using MotionBuilder to pre-visualize
their scenes, directors can experiment with camera angles
and framing, and visual effects supervisors can more effectively
plan visual effects and stunts, all within a high-quality display
that closely mimics the final output. Because everything is
in real time, shots can be changed and refined as quickly
as the new ideas flow.
4
Virtual Cinematography
Blockbuster directors are setting a new trend for virtual
cinematography—a process that allows computer graphic
(CG)–generated characters driven by motion capture data
to be directed alongside live actors, while viewed in the
context of their final setting. MotionBuilder is ideally suited
to this task, with its real-time engine, elegant handling of
motion capture data, and high-quality interactive display.
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Real-Time Character Simulation
With Autodesk MotionBuilder software, you can perform real-
time rigid body dynamic simulations as part of, or alongside,
your character animation; simulations can be blended with
keyframed or motion captured data—or even guided from
pose to pose—to help more precisely direct and control the
final result. The MotionBuilder real-time dynamic toolset
features a Rag Doll solver for realistic character simulation
(for example, a character falling down stairs); the ability to
use joints to connect multiple objects together in order to
simulate secondary animation; and support for collisions.
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