The Mixamo Blog

At Mixamo, we’re constantly evolving to take advantage of the latest technology.  Today, we’re announcing seamless support of Autodesk Maya Full Body Inverse Kinematics (FBIK) Control Rigs.  


Now, any Maya user can apply any motion in our extensive collection of motions directly onto his/her custom FBIK control rig – making them ready for the final keyframing adjustments. Total animating time is significantly reduced!

“We are seeing more casual and mobile game developers move from a 2D to a 3D pipeline with Autodesk Maya software, as a way to differentiate their games in an increasingly crowded market,” said Marc Stevens, Autodesk vice president, Games. “Mixamo’s support for Maya FBIK control rigs will be especially valuable to these developers. It helps to simplify the animation process and makes quality animation more attainable for smaller game development teams working with tighter budgets and on shorter deadlines.”

The Mixamo pipeline fits seamlessly into pre-existing 3D animation pipelines.  New users simply upload their own FBIK-rigged character onto Mixamo and select and customize the motions they want to apply to it.

“Mixamo is the first and only online service that offers Maya FBIK rig users the capability to apply animations directly to their control rigs automatically, and also to customize these motions in real-time,” explains Mixamo Co-founder and CTO, Stefano Corazza. “Mixamo’s vision is to make the lives of 3D artists and developers easier by seamlessly supporting the best 3D pipelines and software tools in the industry. Mixamo already supports the Autodesk 3ds Max Biped System, so it was a natural step to support the Maya FBIK Control Rig System as well.”

Mixamo has also developed Maya scripts to bake FK motion onto IK rigs and is currently making them available to its established customers such as AAA game development studios. For the full end-to-end workflow see below:

Text-based workflow also available.