MotionBuilder 2014
Digital version
Government License

Increase your animation output per artist and create higher quality animation. Autodesk MotionBuilder 2013 real-time 3D character animation software can make film and game animation pipelines more efficient. You can create, edit, and play back complex character animation in a highly responsive, interactive environment. MotionBuilder 2013 is ideal for high-volume animation, virtual cinematography, pre-visualization, and performance animation. New stereoscopic toolsets enable you to capitalize on current entertainment trends.

Real-time engine

A real-time 3D engine makes it one of the industry’s fastest animation tools.

Productivity geared workflows

Workflow features enable you to take on demanding, high-volume projects:

• Full-body inverse kinematics character technology with animation retargeting
• Unified nondestructive, nonlinear editing environment
• Live device support

Motion capture editing and data cleanup

A world-class toolset enables manipulation of motion capture data.

Seamless interoperability

With its software development kit, support for Autodesk FBX technology, and Python scripting capabilities, MotionBuilder 2013 interoperates with other products in the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suites—Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Autodesk Softimage software—and with Autodesk HumanIK middleware.

Increased Productivity Through Real-Time Performance

Whenever characters need to be animated, Autodesk MotionBuilder 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 2013 provides a highly responsive, interactive environment to help create, edit, and play back complex character animation.

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 many industry-standard motion capture systems 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 non-destructively, all in real-time.

Previsualization

Planning upfront can save time, budget, and frustration later in the production process. Using MotionBuilder to previsualize 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. Since everything is in real-time, shots can be changed and refined as quickly as the new ideas flow.

Virtual Cinematography

Blockbuster directors are setting a new trend for virtual cinematography—a process that enables 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 well suited to this task, with its real-time engine, elegant handling of motion capture data, and high-quality interactive display.

Real-Time Character Simulation

With MotionBuilder, 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 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.

Nonlinear 3D Editorial

The MotionBuilder Story tool is a nonlinear environment that enables you to combine multiple media types in a timeline editor. Use the Story tool for previsualization and layout, or for cinematics; you can more easily blend, edit, and sequence tracks composed of animations, cameras, digital video, and audio. This toolset also enables you to make camera shot decisions that help you to reorder and retime your shots on the fly, similar to traditional nonlinear video editing.

Single-Step Interoperability

Enjoy a more seamless workflow that leverages multiple Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite products, with single-step interoperability between MotionBuilder 2013 and Autodesk Maya or Autodesk 3ds Max software. Import Maya or 3ds Max scenes into MotionBuilder in one simple step, and then take the changes back to the content creation package with equal ease, without having to think about file format details. With single-step interoperability, you can enjoy easier access to the best Autodesk tools for the task at hand.

Pipeline Integration and Customization

Support for the popular Python scripting language enables you to more easily integrate MotionBuilder into production pipelines, automate repetitive tasks, and extend features. Use the intelligent, fully integrated Python editor to help develop, test, and refine your scripts without leaving the MotionBuilder environment. Take advantage of the Open Reality software development kit (SDK) to help create custom tools and features that plug directly into MotionBuilder and extend its functionality. You can use many industry standard UI toolkits to help build Open Reality SDK plug-ins

Autodesk Subscription with Gold Support

For an affordable annual fee that lets you plan your budget ahead, Autodesk Subscription with Gold Support for MotionBuilder entitles you to the latest releases made available during the term of your contract; this includes major releases and Autodesk Subscription Advantage Packs (previously known as product extensions), telephone support, learning resources, and the entitlement to use certain previous versions of MotionBuilder.