MIXAMO
Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about MIXAMO!
Mixamo’s Facial Expression Capturing Technology Helps Indie Developers Speed Up Character Animation – TechCrunch: Mixamo, a startup that helps game developers animate 3D characters in their games and apps, is launching something pretty neat today. Face Plus is a service that lets developers animate characters simply by recording their facial expressions through a webcam. Basically, you can just sit in front of…
Digging into rigging: Mixamo’s character service explored | MCV/DEVELOP: The long-serving Mixamo character service has just undergone its latest update. CEO Stefano Corazza gives Will Freeman a look at what it’s offering artists and developers | MCV/DEVELOP
Mixamo Releases Fuse, Character Creation Tool On Steam: The ability to mold characters, shape identities and sculpt 3D personalities using Mixamo’s new Fuse is a cool way to compliment the process of designing anatomical bipeds with ease, and the program is available right now on Steam.
Mixamo Fuse universal expendable 3-D character creator launches on Steam: If you’re a fan of 3-D animation a company called Mixamo has announced that it’s launching a new universal expendable character creator software designed to make 3-D modeling and textur…
Mixamo Is Building A Platform For Game Developers To Create And Animate 3D Characters – TechCrunch: With app stores becoming ever more competitive, game makers have had to upgrade from building 2D games to creating 3D titles over the past two years. That has meant even more creative and intensive work for artists and producers, as the graphics processing power on smartphones has increased. But th…
Unlocking The Power of 3D for The Creative Community—Adobe Acquires Mixamo | Adobe Blog: 3D tools have come a long way in the past few years, but a…
Mixamo debuts Fuse character creation tool on Steam using Valve’s Team Fortress 2 characters: Users will be able to mix and match body parts from Team Fortress 2 characters to create their own original 3D characters.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Mixamo develops and sells web-based services for 3D character animation . company is spun-off of Stanford university and has raised over $11 million . mixamo was acquired by Adobe Systems on June 1, 2015. Mixamo launched its first online animation service in 2009 . it worked with Evolver to provide characters to customers . later Autodesk acquired the company and made it proprietary . Fuse allows users to create a 3D character by assembling customizable body parts, clothing and textures together . Those characters can then be exported into other 3D model software packages or game engine . Face Plus was briefly included in the keynote presentation at the Unite conference in Vancouver . the service can take up to 2 minutes . all its animations work with characters created in Fuse and/or rigged with Mixamo the animated short “unplugged” was created using Face Plus technology . the technology was developed in collaboration with AMD .