Forum: Animation


Subject: MotionBuilder for $100 at 3dbuzz.com (1 year license)

markdc opened this issue on Dec 15, 2002 ยท 26 posts


markdc posted Wed, 01 January 2003 at 11:57 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/artistdownload.ez?Who=markdc&fileid=2375&key=774413

I've had it for a couple of days and so far I can say it seems to be an excellent package. The UI is nice and very easy to customize. The default layouts are for 1280x1024 so I created some smaller ones for me. I also use dual monitors and it works great with them (some apps don't). The F-Curves editor is very nice. Much easier to edit curves than other software I've used. I also like the multiple layers for for animation and the dope sheet. The thing I'm most interested in is Motion Blending (NLA). I haven't reached that tutorial yet, though. The view port previews are very fast as pointed out in the buzz videos, and it seems to have a nice asset management system. It also has "Mimic" like capabilites to drive animation with wav files(haven't tried this). You can also do mocap with your mouse, keyboard, joystick, etc. This is a deep package so it's going to take a while to learn. I'll post more as I learn more. -Mark