Cascadeur: The Easiest Way to Animate
Cascadeur is a standalone software for 3D keyframe animation of humanoid or other characters.
It uses a physics-based approach that allows you to create natural and lifelike motions for movies and video games.
How Cascadeur Works
- Quick Rigging: You can rig your character in minutes by dragging and dropping joints in the Quick Rigging Tool. You can also rig standard skeletons from popular platforms like Daz3d, Character Creator, Mixamo, Unreal Engine, Metahuman or Player.me with one click. You can customize the auto-generated rig or even create your own for non-humanoid characters.
- AI-assisted Posing: You can create poses faster and easier with the help of the intelligent rig powered by neural networks. Just move the main control points and the AI will position the rest of the body automatically. You can also move any point to adjust the result as you wish.
- AutoPhysics: You can achieve realistic and natural motion with the AutoPhysics Tool. It simulates the physical forces and constraints that affect your character and suggests an animation that matches them. You can see the suggested animation on a green instance of your character and snap it to your character once you are satisfied.
- Secondary Motion: You can add life and dynamism to your animation with the Secondary Motion Tool. You can easily apply any secondary motion effects like shaking, bouncing and overlapping to any body part separately. You can also customize the effect at any interval.
- Other Animation Tools: Cascadeur offers a variety of other animation tools such as Trajectories, Ghosts, Copy Tool, Tween Machine, IK/FK Interpolation, Graph Editor, Video Reference Import, Cameras and many more.
Why You Should Try Cascadeur
- You can create animation from scratch or edit existing ones: Whether you want to start from zero or improve an existing animation, Cascadeur can help you. You can import and export animations in various formats such as FBX, BVH, DAE and GLTF. You can also use Cascadeur as a plugin for Blender and Maya.
- You can save time and money: With Cascadeur, you don’t need to spend hours or days on creating or editing animations. You can make key poses in minutes, see the physical result instantly and adjust the secondary motion easily. You also don’t need to invest in expensive motion capture equipment or hire professional actors.
- You can have fun and be creative: Cascadeur is not only a powerful tool, but also a fun one. You can experiment with different poses, physics and effects and see how they affect your animation. You can also unleash your creativity and make unique and original animations that stand out from the crowd.
Use Cases and Applications
- Action and adventure games: You can use Cascadeur to create dynamic and thrilling animations for your action and adventure games. You can animate fight scenes, parkour moves, stunts, chases and more with the help of the physics-based approach and the AI-assisted posing. You can also import and export animations to and from popular game engines like Unreal Engine and Unity.
- Fantasy and sci-fi games: You can use Cascadeur to create imaginative and creative animations for your fantasy and sci-fi games. You can animate magic spells, flying creatures, alien races, futuristic weapons and more with the help of custom rigging and secondary motion tools. You can also apply any effects and filters to your animations to match your game’s style and mood.
- Horror and thriller games: You can use Cascadeur to create scary and suspenseful animations for your horror and thriller games. You can animate jump scares, creepy movements, gore effects, psychological tricks and more with the help of the trajectories, ghosts, copy tool and the graph editor. You can also adjust the timing and the intensity of your animations to create the desired impact on your players.
- Animation movies and shorts: You can use Cascadeur to create stunning and cinematic animations for your animation movies and shorts. You can animate realistic and expressive characters, complex and detailed scenes, dramatic and emotional moments and more with the help of the AutoPhysics, video reference import, cameras and the IK/FK interpolation. You can also export your animations in high-quality formats for rendering and editing.
