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 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…
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 .
