3d PEOPLE !! - Motionbuilder 5 DEMO OUT NOW!!

[.soulty]

OOOhhh baby!

For the serious 3d people here (or even the intrested people, 3d or non3d) , Motionbuilder 5.1 is finally out to test drive and trust me it will make your jaw drop. :!:

I have mentioned this app before, but till now there wasent a demo out for people to test it. With the new version 5.1 release, Kaydara have released a 30 day demo to test out this revolutionary character animation program. Used in games such as Getaway (quote below).


quote from Kaydara site
“MOTIONBUILDER was an indispensable tool for the animators working on ‘The Getaway’, and saved us significant time and money. Using MOTIONBUILDER, we were able to create with ten animators what would normally take us one hundred animators to produce. MOTIONBUILDER is second to none, and a god-send to the way we work.”
Gavin Moore


What so great about this app is the fact that is so easy to to animate a character and in real time.... yes i said REAL TIME! lighting , full textured models can be animated in real time with no lag and so you see exactly how the end result will be. There is so much more, too much to mention...

Check out the link below and see what my crazy talk is about
Kaydara Motionbuilder 5 (http://www.kaydara.com/products/motionbuilder/index.php)

Make sure you check out the "sneak peak" section of the site to see some awesome animation videos , with things like Facial expressions, bump mapping vids, real time texturing and more..

If you do download the app... (Why wouldnt you:h: )... i mean WHEN you download the app, make sure you check out the video tutorials provided on the site, which were produced by the team at 3d buzz. They are a great way to watch and learn the great stuff this program can do.

Also there are some nice example characters all ready to animate in the kaydara installed directory ( right now, i m animating the ninja model..:!: really cool) ....

You still here?? get downloading !!! :P

.....soulty :smirk:

[peace]

I'm checkin it out.

[eilsoe]

*drops dead*


ONWARDS!!!

[.soulty]

how cool is it... :)

Here is something i did, didnt take me long, pretty short only 30 frames, ninja doing a kick..

Quicktime Mov , Ninja kick (http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/site_uploads/Ninja.mov)

:beam:

[El_Thierro]

Hey, that's nice man! Good job! :thumb:

[senocular]

darn fine ninja!

[.soulty]

thanks ;) , i didnt model that i just animated it, :P

thats one of the example models you can start animating. Im going to play around with that animation that i have already done, add and define elements to it.. This is the fun part of 3d!

Btw ... anyone else tried it yet??

[neverrain]

*drops dead*

NINE HOURS TO DOWNLOAD!!!

[.soulty]

lol.. you gotta love cable internet. :beam:
:got the download in less than a minute ;)

[senocular]

the animation was 98% of its darn fineness ;)

[Mik3]

Originally posted by datapimp
*drops dead*

NINE HOURS TO DOWNLOAD!!!

Whao! It's 4 min here!

[ironikart]

Nice little tool. I had a quick flip through the specs and its got some great animation tools... I've spent the last few days IK rigging my own character in max 5, this thing makes it look like a breeze!

Not sure how I feel about flipping around apps for modelling, animation and rendering, but if it makes it easier...

I didn't see anything about supported dynamics, but I think it's only really intended for character animation so dynamics aren't a biggy.

[.soulty]

yeah its pretty cool, and its actually a bigger app than you think, if you have watched any of the 3dbuzz vids it mentions you have to name your bones/joints a particular way, so when you import your model it basically automatically is ready to animate. But once you get that down, its really amazing what you can do, that ninja mov i did only took me a few minutes, i moves the legs which had IK joints and it basically moved the whole body reacting to the leg, moved fingers, keyframe.... then another pose with his hands moving out... keyframe... and then its interpolated. thats it!

Like i said if you check out the vids provided on the site by 3dbuzz you will see how you can really use this app... (lol , sound like i work for the kaydara or something.. :P )

[.soulty]

about the dynamics ironik, not sure..... let me find out.

[.soulty]

Originally posted by senocular
the animation was 98% of its darn fineness ;)

hehe, thanks dude. i hear ya :ear:

;)