Motionbuilder 6 has been announced as the industry's most agile 3D animation solution for its improved handling, advanced keyframing capabilities, and increased character animation controls, making it the perfect solution for creating animated content quickly and easily for gaming, cinematographic films and television series.
"Motionbuilder 6 is our next logical step in building the best 3D animation software available on the market, said Michel Besner, President of Kaydara. The new version includes many improvements, which make it more powerful and easier to use, and is an ideal solution for even the most demanding keyframe artists."
Motionbuilder 6, with such unique features as smart character technology (HumanIK), 3D tools for timeline-story and photo-realistic rendering in real time, allows artists to easily create high-quality, visually irresistible animated content through a true WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get" environment. for its initials in English) and without having to manage difficult tasks such as building custom platforms and complex character configurations.
"Motionbuilder 6 offers an unprecedented degree of flexibility and a powerful toolbox that make it easy to develop high-quality character animation in much less time," said Rémi Brun, senior supervisor of moving image capture at Attitude Studio. We used Motionbuilder in renaissance, the first European feature film made entirely by capturing moving images, and our 26 x 26 TV series Skyland; as it makes the tremendous difference in our team to quickly and easily produce the delicate and complete animation of characters, it is an asset of enormous value for all our productivity and workflow."
Exciting new features in the Motionbuilder 6 include:
Simplified user interface, comprising a new, fully configurable capture mode and toolbar, which provides animators with improved workflow manipulation and control, and a new screen layout that maximizes 3D display size.
Enhanced Keyframe animation capabilities, including enhanced IK/FK sync, autoclave, animation paths, and MotionInspector: a revolutionary way to manage motion curve dynamics.
Character animation functionalities include multi-referential animation for characters and accessories; user-defined character settings with accessory support; custom constraints and properties, and enhanced animation controls with freedom levels, pivot support, and referenced properties.
The enhanced timeline-story includes increased flexibility and workflow, allowing users to easily edit 3D animation tracks, animation in combination with audio, video, and constraints. Independent camera tracking allows producers, special effects directors, and 3D artists to work with camera and time shots independently of the animation timeline for maximum flexibility.
Motionbuilder 6 naturally supports Kaydara FBX, an award-winning, platform-agnostic 3D authoring platform that exchanges formats that allow Motionbuilder users to quickly and easily acquire and exchange 3D assets and media from a variety of sources. The Kaydara FBX is widely supported by industry-leading software and hardware manufacturers, as well as film and game creation studios, including 2D3, 3Dwings, A&G Soluzioni Digitali, Alias, Apple, Ascension Technology, Autodesk, Darwin, Di-O-Matic, Discreet, Luxology, Maxon, Motek, Natural Motion, Newtek, NXN, Okino, Softimage, Strata, TurboSquid, Vicon and Virsys.
