Epic Games acquires facial mocap firm Cubic Motion
Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
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Master production workflows for Maya's nCloth toolset
Discover how to simulation clothing in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's new video training.
Monday, January 27th, 2020
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2020 product roadmap
See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3
Friday, September 27th, 2019
Download 69 free game-ready motion-capture animations
Get Siarhei Chekolian's 69 in-place NPC mocap moves free until the end of the month. FBX, UE4 format.
Sunday, August 25th, 2019
Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link
Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Cubic Motion ships Persona
Intriguing new facial mocap system makes the tech behind Epic Games' amazing GDC demos available as a commercial product.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
IKinema releases Orion 2.0
Low-cost full-body mocap system based around HTC Vive hardware gets new 'system health tracker' to monitor data quality automatically.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Rokoko's Motion Library is coming to Maya
New plugin to let users buy moves recorded by top Hollywood mocap studios within Maya for $3-6 each.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2019
Mocap editing app gets Clean Up Scene tool, updates to the Story Window and Camera Switcher.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2019 and Maya LT 2019
Both get improved Viewport 2.0 performance; Maya gets cached playback for animation previews.
Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
Neat new tool Glycon lets you record mocap in virtual reality
Low-cost app lets users record full-body motion capture in FBX format using an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Download the free Kinect Mocap Toolkit For Windows
New free tool lets users record full-body mocap in BVH format via up to four secondhand Kinect sensors.
Sunday, November 4th, 2018
Epic Games ships free MotionBuilder Live Link for UE4
Free plugin streams mocap data from MotionBuilder to preview it inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, August 16th, 2018