--- title: MotionBuilder Reviews meta\_title: 'MotionBuilder Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 17 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how MotionBuilder works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 17 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Video url: https://www.g2.com/categories/video --- # MotionBuilder Reviews & Product Details 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and services. * * * Seller [Autodesk](https://www.g2.com/sellers/autodesk) Discussions [MotionBuilder Community](https://www.g2.com/products/motionbuilder/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Blender](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Blender") Blender 4.6/5(319) ](https://www.g2.com/products/blender/reviews) [ ![iClone 8](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "iClone 8") iClone 8 4.8/5(13) ](https://www.g2.com/products/iclone-8/reviews) [ ![Cinema 4D](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cinema 4D") Cinema 4D 4.6/5(137) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cinema-4d/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/motionbuilder/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 17 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Animation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Animation") UA Verified User in Animation Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/8/2022 "Using Motion Builder with Vicon" 5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? Motion Builder is easy to pick up with some tutorials be it online or with someone beside you! The functions are simple and while there are some complex steps to do to get your character linked to vicon, with practice it becomes easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? It, unfortunately, crashes randomly even though we only have one character on set. Not sure how the crashes can be fixed, but hopefully the reports sent in will help to give more information on fixing the crashing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: Have a look at your needs before committing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? Currently not using Motion Builder in a business. I was using it in an environment that does not make profit. However, MotionBuilder makes things very easy to record what I need on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/29/2024 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") UC Verified User in Computer Games Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/23/2021 "Best mocap suit for creating games" 5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? Motionbuilder has the best tools available to streamline the work flow of any gaming studio be it capturing the mocap and importing into mobu which makes the process easy and the format support of this software is really good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? I hope they can fix the issues that can hamper the file.. Many times the software force closes when using character creation window and when using constrains system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? I am easily finishing the work that i have for creating animation with the help of story tool and re targeting of animations on different characters which is quite useful to finish the work fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/23/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Alonzo V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alonzo V.") AV Alonzo V. VFX Producer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/3/2019 "AVTpro's Motionbuilder Review" 5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? MotionBuilder is one of my favorite apps. Affectionately known as "Mobu" (Moo-boo) was created by an Oscar award winning team back in 2003. It's very mature, and stable app that falls in the Autodesk suite of tools as a real-time Motion Capture. It was used for AVATAR . There really isn't anything better on the market for fast, ease of use, humanoid and quadruped "Motion Capture/ MoCap". I also love it for keyframing but with the amount of free MoCap" available that use .FBX animation file transfer standard, I often only have to tweak the mocap with a few keyframes. However, it is the best "real-time" animator. Real time animation is something you can't understand until you experience it. MotionBuilder FBX allows MoCap data from most if not all animation apps via FBX. Mobu uses something called HumanIK or HIK for short. HIK allows instant rigging of most bipedal character with an very intuitive yet powerful rig. So your character model can be rigged and animated in less than an hour with an Auto-Rigger like Mixamo, or Maya Quick Rig and motion can be drag/dropped and you have a performance for games or films. This is a life-save for those who need to get things animated quickly or have already put a lot of energy in other parts of the process, like modeling and texturing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? Being a Mac User I dislike like MotionBuilder being discontinued after version 7.5. Probably over ten years ago, but Mobu is so useful I continued to used it on the Mac and only switched to Window in BootCamp when I was in full production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: Eventhough there is a lot of free training on YouTube, get Pluralsight or a trainer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? EvenThough I own an OptiTrack MoCap system for performance capture, I use MotionBuilder even without MocCap and with regular keyframes. I also use it with Endorphin, a now discontinued Ragdoll simulator, so I can produce very physics-based performances with keyframing. I'm the first vendor to use the local University robotics Mocap lab for human animation. So I would able to put on a MoCap suit, generate animation C3D optical marker files and format my captured body movements to a Maya character with MotionBuilder. So eventhough I have a OptiTrack system, the school has a Vicon capture volumes but both setups worked with MotionBuilders Actor for HumanIK Control Rigs. This solved a huge expensive problem for the University that only used tracking markers instead of an expensive mocap formatting software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/18/2020 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Alok H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alok H.") AH Alok H. 3D Map Modeller - II / 3D Artist / CG Generalist / Game Assets Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/5/2020 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Motion builder is best software to do animation" 5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? Best in the industry realtime 3D engine, used to generate and finetune movements in animation, manipulate captured data, and we can get best animation results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? Well, I dont found any of its disadvantages, and its a good thing. There are some other same kind of softwares, I found this one is just best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: Motion builder is Autodesk's best product if you want to mation capture from video footages and manipulate and finetune to apply on your 3D characters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? Problem solved using motion builder is real time character movements can be tweaked and finetune to expected animation results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Eric M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eric M.") EM Eric M. Director Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/23/2016 "The mature standard for Performance Capture and Animation" 4.5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? A user of Motionbuilder since its inception under the Kaydara banner, I've always loved Motionbuilder for its laser focus and incredible real-time engine (That could run highly dense datasets in close to real-time long before GPU or Multi Cores became the order of the day.) If you are doing high end or serious game Performance Capture, what's not to like about Motionbuilder? The first true non-linear cg animation solution, Motionbuilder has really added any new or significant improvements in 2016, more importantly, it has shared even more of its features with Maya and Max. Enhanced HumanIK tools in both suites have become easy and more robust with new solvers, all built on MB's HumanIK standard. Today, several good tools are available on the Indie market for Motion Capture. Using a Kinect, software such as IPISoft and IClone can do awesome motion capture and some cases match or exceed what Motionbuilder can do. What's best about Motionbuilder is it's Performance Capture not just motion capture. It allows the artist to combine not only capture facial, body and re-target stock motion clips, it allows them to combine, trim, edits, adjust curves and graphs thus fine-tuning the animation to match the individual characters perceived personality. From Facial capture to tracking of high end Actor capture like Avatar (In fact Motionbuilder was the major pipeline solution for capturing the actors performances and transferring them to the 3D characters). The Story Editor functions as a Full Pre-Vis/Storyboarding environment inside of the Animation software. If you are a Live Action Narrative Storyteller, this tool allows you to build virtual cameras in the sequence you want, place virtual actors and drop motion clips into the scene. This creates an easy Storyboarding tool for getting approval and sign-off on your scenes. To that end, Motionbuilder is infinitely customizable via the powerful scripting language Python. This and a very accessible SDK, gives the user a lot of power in creating plugins and ports to it's open environment. Motionbuilder can support control from Industry cameras such as Vicon or OpiTrack or low cost options such as the Kinect. Motionbuilder can even be driven in realtime by MIDI, LTC Timecode or GPI Triggers (This allows real-time performance and driving of CG elements. Think a CG character interacting with a live person in a presentation (via triggers) or performing certain task via a MIDI input. The killer option that puts Motionbuilder in a class by itself is it's support for Virtual Cameras. This allows the user (Director, Cameraman) to virtually control the camera in 3D space. Using tools such as Optirack's Insight VCS Pro with it's Motionbuilder plugin, an filmmaker can organically operate a real camera rig, while watching the 3D scene in real time. This bring unprecedented realism and creativity to any project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? Motionbuilder has seen a substantial upgrade in years. In fact, most of it's core functionality has been duplicated in Maya, so while it is still king for working with FBX and assembling and editing layered animation, task such as re-targeting, quick rigging via HumanIK have long sense been in it's bigger, more famous brethren. The workflow for dealing with BVH motion capture needs to change. Back when FBX was a fledgling file format that Autodesk needed to promote over the industry standard, making an artist import a skeleton, rig it then re-target to your asset. FBX is king now, BVH motion files should be drag and drop and work in the Story Editor. In the Story editor, Autodesk should match the Story environment in Maya thus making direct connection of Storyboarded Story content immediately available in Maya. Lastly, the UI needs an overhaul as it hasn't changed much since it was in the hands of Kaydara. (This won't happen, but I'd like to see it). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: If you need to edit or layer fbx or motion captured clips, Motionbuilder is your tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? As an instructor in Motion Capture, Motionbuilder allows me to seamlessly work with motion captured clips of BVH and FBX motions. Layering and editing the clips to create new performance clips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 12/7/2017 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vadim M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vadim M.") VM Vadim M. 3D Animator | 3D Designer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/25/2016 "Motionbulder the best software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? Most of all I like in Motion Builder rapid creation control rig, which you can load into Unity or unreal engine. Also in mitoin buedder very convenient system of constraints. Just a few clicks you can assign any object to your character or create a procedural of constraints. Also in Motion Builder is very easy curves of the panel on which you will be able to quickly fix the noise of your animation, there can be smoothed automatically the noise using one of a plurality of filters provided. in Motion Builder have the opportunity to preview your animation (rendering). Using built-in tools, you can make and set a beautiful scene, since there motionbulder light sources, materials, shaders, and more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? in Motion builder like everything, the only thing that would have added rapidly-customizable facial rig. Also physics poor. ery little information of constraints. I would like more difficult tutorials in this regard. also I would like more examples already configured scenes and characters, that the user could not only theoretically but also practically make out the features of the program and tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: This is a great software for character animation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? Motion Builder is used to create animation game. In a short time you can collect various animations in one scene and switch characters in a single click (creation cutscene with crowds of characters, objects, equipment) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") GC Verified User in Computer Games Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/26/2016 "Setting the industry standard for love motion capturing." 4.5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? Incredible integration with the rest of the autodesk suite, the real time monitoring of our cameras and trackers helps immensely with getting the right take straight away, instead of wasting time reviewing and dealing with exceedingly long mocap sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? Limitation to bipedal movements. Would love to be able to capture animals without extra steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: Know the limitations of the software before going in. If you're capturing anything other than humans then you'll need to do some custom magic to make it all work, otherwise it's a great and robust piece of kit for your animation workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? Quick workflows for animation in videogames; allows us to preview our blocking and scenes immediately after acting them out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") UE Verified User in Entertainment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/22/2016 "looking for mocap? Go for motion builder" 4.5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? The curve of learning is very fast. And this technique is very usefull if you got a short time to animate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? I would like that motion builder have more friendly user interface tools for animation like maya does. That can save you time making changes in the same software for the animation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: You must know about the mocap technique and the complementary software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? Time is money. Like i said if you are in a project where you are in a crunch time or the time to animate is very short. Doing mocap technique with motion builder can be a good option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Bruno Z.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bruno Z.") BZ Bruno Z. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/25/2016 "Great software for every kind of shot in Motion Capture" 5/5 What do you like best about MotionBuilder? The interface is awesome! I´am professional animator so I used to use all kind of software for animation. In MotionBuilder is one of the best. It´s simple and friendly to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about MotionBuilder? I really do not have anything I dislike. May be only the exportation files. But think in the new versions they already cover that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering MotionBuilder: I think is the best motion capture software in the industry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is MotionBuilder solving and how is that benefiting you? All the kind of problem I use to have in the blocking process of animation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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