27
Jan
Resource Hub: A source for software, assets and training!
Resource Hub is live! Looking for a cool application you might find what your looking for here : Mixamo Resource Hub currently featuring over 60 awesome programs, resources and training sites! Are we missing a program you use or love? Let us know!26
Jan
MIXAMO ANNOUNCES EXCLUSIVE AAA GAME ANIMATIONS NOW FOR SALE
Yes, it's true! We are now officially selling AAA Game animations featured in big budget titles from games developed like Telltale and nDreams on consoles like Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. These animations are tagged with a AAA badge on the website and also denoted as "FEATURED". Be sure to read the full mixamo AAA animation press release here. And keep checking back for more awesome animation from the big studios.3
Jan
Sony Uses Mixamo to Showcase Playstation Home Redesign
In an exciting and completlely under the radar event. Sony's marketing team used Mixamo characters and animations to pull off a very impressive mock up of their new Home Redesign. While we're unsure if Mixamo animations will be present in the final product this is a very exciting moment to see companies like Sony using our characters and animations in there work. What do you guys think?21
Oct
October Auto-Rigging Sale is on!
From now until the end of October we're having an Auto-Rigging sale on Mixamo!
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All Meshes 10k Tris or less are $29!
21
Oct
Playable Motion Packs
Playable motion packs are Mixamo's answer to plug-and-play game ready 3d animation. Using these motion packs, you can literally preview
animation logic on Mixamo.com - the way you would see it in your game. The packs also come with ready-to-use character controller scripts for Unity 3D, which are available at the time of download.The downloaded animation files can be used with any control logic in any game engine (you don't have to use ours!). If you'd like to request
a controller for a different engine, please email support at mixamo dot com.Here's how it works...
On Mixamo.com:
1. Pick your pack (/motions)
2. Change your character (or use ours)
3. Preview animation
This is the cool part. You can click on each animation state, use keyboard controls, or preview each animation file one-by-one (use the animation tab). This is essentially a real-time preview of what your animations will look like when plugged into the Mixamo Character Controller or when using your own.
4. Download pack
5. Download scripts for Unity 3D (in download tray)
The "Graph Text Asset for Unity3d" contains the animation states definition and the information about blending from a state to another.
The "Controller Script for Unity3d" is the script connecting specific keyboard controls to the animation states.
In Unity 3D:
The following steps illustrate how to set up the motion pack and controller on your character. These same steps can also be used if your just simply using the Mixamo Animation State Machine as your controller.
1. Create an Empty GameObject that will act as the master node for the character or NPC
2. Place the character (mesh with skeleton and animations applied) into the new Empty GameObject. (Thus making it a child of the Empty GameObject).
3. Add the AnimationStateMachine.cs script to the Empty GameObject.
4. Set the Target to be the character place inside the Empty GameObject.
5. Set the Graph Text Asset to be the JSON .txt file containing all the state information.
6.Add a CharacterController to the Empty GameObject.
7. Set it up to line up with the character's feet.
8.Add the provided controller or your own custom controller.
12
Sep
Mixamo Contest Winners Announced!
Congratulations to our winners! Voting has concluded for the Mixamo Character Contest and we are excited to announce:
7
Sep
Mixamo Presents on Animation, Flash and Flash 11 at San Flashcisco 2011
Mixamo presented a talk at this years's San Flashcisco event. We talked on Animation, Flash 11 capabilities and installation as well as animation principles and more. You can watch the whole talk here kindly recorded by the folks at San Flashcisco.
30
Aug
modo, Blender and zBrush tutorials for Mixamo and Unity!
We have some new workflow videos that walk you though working with modo, Blender and zBrush. If you use anyone of these 3d apps be sure to check out our latest tutorials. Below I've placed the video tutorials as well as the links to the landing pages with extra downloadible content to get you started on your path with Mixamo! BLENDER zBRUSH modo10
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.
8
Aug
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