MotionBuilder is a 3D character animation software produced by Autodesk. It is used for virtual cinematography,

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, and traditional

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. It was originally named Filmbox when it was first created by Canadian company Kaydara, later acquired by Alias and renamed to MotionBuilder. Alias in turn was acquired by Autodesk. It is primarily used in film, games, television production, as well as other multimedia projects. At

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2012, Autodesk announced a partnership with Weta Digital and Lightstorm Entertainment to develop the next generation of the technology.

Features

* Facial and skeletal animation * Support for

devices * A software development kit that exposes functionality through Python and C++ via Qt and PySide. * Ragdoll physics *

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* 3D non-linear editing system * Direct connection to other Autodesk

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* The

FBX FBX (''Filmbox'') is a proprietary file format () developed by Kaydara and owned by Autodesk since 2006. It is used to provide interoperability between digital content creation applications. FBX is also part of Autodesk Gameware, a series of vid ...

(.fbx) file format for

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interoperability has grown out of this package

References

3D graphics software Autodesk products Proprietary software that uses Qt Proprietary commercial software for Linux {{graphics-software-stub

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