Mac Support, Better Animation for Filmbox.(Product Announcement)

Kaydara's Filmbox application provides real-time animation, motion capture, and production utilities for authoring and delivering 3D content. Although the company's official strategy is to provide an integrated workflow system for the entire production pipeline, Filmbox enjoys particular popularity in the film, game development, and Web-authoring industries because of the way it handles motion-capture data. The program supports numerous motion-capture devices, and in turn most such devices support Kaydara's FBX format.

Version 3.0 of Filmbox builds on the software's animation and motion-capture strengths with improvements to the Control Sets feature. Chief among these is the ability to animate characters without having to program inverse kinematics rigs and constraints. Animators can also work interactively with both inverse and forward kinematics, both to generate keyframe animation and to more easily modify existing motion-capture ...