29
Nov
10 Great Free Resources
...for Indie Developers
If you are an independent game developer, you are likely working within a very fixed budget, however that doesn't mean that your game must be low quality. If you are a talented artist or programmer, there are a number of good free resources that can help your project development without draining your bank account. It is obvious that expensive tools can often do things that free tools can't, but the core development of a game does not need to rely on these tools. If you are an artist, there is good software to help you create content. If you are a good programmer, there are free development environments.
We would like to present some free resources that can assist you in developing your independent game. This list is not comprehensive but rather a good slice of programs that we feel are useful.
12
Sep
Mixamo Contest Winners Announced!
Congratulations to our winners! Voting has concluded for the Mixamo Character Contest and we are excited to announce:
10
Aug
Mixamo’s latest short interview
I got interviewed about Mixamo, how we work and what we offer.Read it all HERE Cheers!Could you briefly introduce yourself and what you do at Mixamo?
My name is Oliver Barraza, I am the Technical Community Development Manager at Mixamo. I handle a little bit of everything. Mainly I do community outreach and technical support for 3d applications and games engines. We have so many different kinds of people using our service for any number of things, I always have a new challenge to solve.What is Mixamo and what does it bring to its users?
Mixamo is a web based animation service that allows users to customize and automatically apply animations chosen from an ever expanding catalog to their character's unique skeleton. Mixamo then automatically maps and characterizes the uploaded character skeleton and applies real-time retargeting to transfer the motion data onto it. This technology, effectively brings a huge collection of motion capture to a users finger tips any time, day or night, and without the hassle of having to retarget the motion data yourself. We have also just entered Beta with our latest release, the ''Auto-Rigger'', a powerful computer learning web based service that can generate a skeleton for any humanoid character and then weight that skeleton to the mesh in a matter of minutes.
27
Jul
Mixamo Character Modeling Contest has UPGRADED PRIZES!
Hey guys ! New prizes sponsored by our good friends and partners : design3 Prizes are now as follows: 1st place: $1,000 cash and 50 Mixamo Credits + Annual design3 membership ($179.95 value) + professionally generated render and animation of your character 2nd place: $500 cash and 30 Mixamo Credits + 6 Month design3 membership ($99.95 value) 3rd place: $300 cash and 15 Mixamo Credits + 3 month design3 membership ($59.85 value) Go check it here : Mixamo character contest Deadline : August 21st Submission process 1. Create your character (create one from scratch or download one of our base meshes here) 2. Put you character file (obj or fbx) into a folder with your textures and zip it. 3. Send the zipped folder to contest@mixamo.com Also, take the opportunity to try our updated auto-rigger !21
Jul
Interview with Mixamo: What we do!
Design3 made some time to Visit the Mixamo studio and watch some capture sessions and talk with us about what we do. A great set of videos for those interested in what we do and why we do it below: Thanks again Design3 for coming out and putting together these awesome videos.15
Jul
Mixamo Character Modeling Contest!
Mixamo is excited to announce our first Character Contest. We know there are a lot of talented character artists using our services and we want to help you show off your work! If you are interested in entering, follow the submission process guidelines below. Mixamo will select a group of finalists and then have the community vote.
Prizes
1st place: $1,000 cash and 50 Mixamo Credits + professionally generated render and animation of your character
2nd place: $500 cash and 30 Mixamo Credits
3rd place: $300 cash and 15 Mixamo Credits
Go check it here : Mixamo character contest
Deadline : August 21st
Submission process
1. Create your character (create one from scratch or download one of our base meshes here)
2. Put you character file (obj or fbx) into a folder with your textures and zip it.
3. Send the zipped folder to contest@mixamo.com
Also, take the opportunity to try our updated auto-rigger ! 24
Jun
Adobe Molehill and Flare3D
Our friends at Flare3D have been working with Mixamo characters and animation. They put together a video of our characters running in their awesome Development Environment and on the web in Molehill. Little by little Molehill becomes a more amazing platform for creating and deploying 3d on the web. And as it gets closer and closer to release very get more and more excited about what we are able to offer it's future users and what they will create! Also check out the interactive demo. Bear in mind that the most stable molehill release is for IE on Win 7.16
Jun
User: Runonthespot uses Mixamo with String AR
So this String Augmented reality program allows you to project 3d images into the real world through a viewfinder like an iPhone screen etc. Below is a video from one of our users who is already doing amazing things. He has our Horse galloping around on his coffee table and casting shadows on it. Crazy stuff. Although similar to the "Pets" games fad of the last few years this allows you to project your 3d 'whatever' anywhere you want! And with a little help form us we can make it even more awesome. Follow runonthespot on twitter!18
May
Image Metrics gives demo at Mixamo
Image Metrics stopped by a few days ago to talk about their amazing facial capture software. They've worked with Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar Games, Intel and more on many many amazing products. There tech and software is without a doubt some of the most advanced and innovative I've ever seen. In short, their tech allows users to recorded footage of an actor and using a pixel based tracking algorithm map and track the face as it moves. Next animators come in and teach the software what facial shapes correspond to what facial expressions. This means the animators have full control over the expressive features of the character and look but those animator created facial features are driven by a real human actor. It's a perfect blend of animator's skill and control plus the speed and flexibility of motion capture. Below is a few captures and a video of their tech set up in out offices!
5
May
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