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5 Things to do BEFORE you Characterize Your Character in MotionBuilder

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In this tutorial we’re going to look at 5 quick things you can do to your character BEFORE you characterize it that will make it easier to work with in MotionBuilder.

These might seem a bit random at first, but this is exactly what I do every time I import a new character into MotionBuilder.

In this video you’ll learn:

  1. How to correctly scale your character.
  2. How to set the skeleton joint visibility options and adjust skeleton joint sizes
  3. How to organise your scene with Groups, Folders and Namespaces
  4. How to change the playback speed, frame range and frames per second (FPS)
  5. How to use keyboard shortcuts to frame your character in the different camera views.
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