Kaydara Ships MOTIONBUILDER 5

Kaydara Inc. has announced that MOTIONBUILDER 5, the latest version of the company's real-time 3D character animation software, is now shipping to customers world-wide. MOTIONBUILDER 5's new story timeline allows animation to be created almost instantaneously. The story timeline, combined with MOTIONBUILDER 5's built-in clipart library, file format support via Kaydara FBX and a simple 'drag and drop' approach, represents a significant step toward high-end animation for the masses.



MOTIONBUILDER 5's story timeline combines an independent shot, standard animation, character, camera, digital video, digital audio, constraint and command tracks with a suite of editing controls and real-time performance. The independent shot track provides enhanced flexibility, such as discontinuities and repeats, and ease-of-use. Other new features in MOTIONBUILDER 5 include: