Mixamo

Tools

Tools

Official website

www.mixamo.com

Mixamo makes it possible for us to rapidly iterate in the prototyping phase. We can figure out right away if our game play design is going to work or not, thanks to all the motions available with Mixamo’s All Access subscription.

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Fuse Character Creator

Features

Fuse offers an unprecedented approach to high-quality 3D character creation. Mixamo users can browse through a vast number of mesh and texture choices to get customized, rigged, high-quality characters in a matter of minutes.

Get 3D characters ready to animate in a fraction of the time it would take a professional to do by hand. Mixamo’s machine-learning technology calculates skinning-weights and adjusts bones automatically to any uploaded character.

Thousands of animations that can be applied to any mesh you upload to the Mixamo system. Each motion is specifically matched each unique 3D character with Mixamo’s patented online re-targeting technology, giving users high-quality animations at minimal cost.

A plugin that enables developers to create high-quality 3D facial animation, in real time, directly within Unity or MotionBuilder using only a standard webcam.

MixamoRecent articles

3D Character Sculpting: Modeling and Posture

Scott Denton from The Mill talked about the character production and his Sagart from Street Fighter fanart.

Western Self-Portrait: 3D Character Breakdown

Malte Sturm did a detailed breakdown of his western Self-Portrait created with several tools and animated with Mixamo, and shared some helpful information.

Windrazor: First Take on Virtual Reality Games

A group of students from Ringling College of Art & Design talked about their experience building awesome VR experiences

Arena Gods: A True Local Multiplayer Experience

At SIGGRAPH 2015 we had an interview with Mark Parrish, Co-Founder of Supertype games, about Arena Gods. A throwback to the games of old with extreme local multiplayer action and simple controls, it is one of the most exciting indie games to be coming out this year. He talks to us about why they used Unity and not Unreal, what a true local multiplayer title is, and the struggles with funding and development.

Mixamo: A New Chapter in Animation History

Product Evangelist for Mixamo Brent Jentzsch discussed the way you can use this service to power your games and talked a little about the way the middleware market for games has changed over the years.

Interviews

Interviews

The Town of Light: Award Winning Theatrical Game About a Schizophrenic Girl

Town of Light game director Luca Dalcò talked about the creation of the exploration game Town of Light, created with the help of Unity 5.

Downward: Creating Open World Parkour Game in UE4

A small Italian studio Caracal Games Studio is using Unreal Engine 4 to create a visually stunning parkour runner Downward set in a completely open world.