Basefount releases Animcraft 5.0
Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
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Tutorial: Animating a 3-Hit Combo for Games in Maya
Discover how to use mocap data to create a combat animation with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced six-hour tutorial.
Saturday, February 10th, 2024
Reallusion launches AccuFace
New GPU-accelerated AI mocap add-on for iClone extracts facial motion data from video in real time. Works with consumer webcams.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
Vicon releases Shōgun 1.12
Check out the latest features in Vicon's software for solving and cleaning data from its optical mocap systems.
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
Move.ai introduces monthly pricing
Promising new AI-based mocap service now available via monthly as well as annual subscriptions.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023
Epic Games releases MetaHuman Animator
Hotly tipped toolset can transfer facial motion from iPhone footage to a MetaHuman in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Move.ai now works with Android phones and webcams
Promising AI-based markerless mocap system now works on video from any device, not just iPhones.
Monday, March 20th, 2023
Move.ai releases its AI-based mocap app for iOS
Promising new app aims to capture production-quality mocap for games and VFX on 2-6 iPhones.
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Auto Character System 3 aims to redefine rigging in Modo
Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.
Monday, November 21st, 2022
Nvidia releases Omniverse Create 2022.1
Big update to the Omniverse scene layout app adds soft-body physics, new character animation toolset.
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Download the new free edition of Auto Character Setup
Updated: cut-down edition of popular auto-rigging system ACS2 now also works with Modo Indie.
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
OptiTrack ships Motive 3.0
In beta: optical mocap software's new 'Quantum Solver' can track 10 actors simultaneously. See all of its new features and new pricing.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021