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MillimeterKaydara FBX Becomes Industry Standard Interchange Format
Jul 23, 2004 5:15 PM
MONTRÉAL-- Kaydara, a leader in 3D character animation and motion-editing solutions, announced that the award-winning Kaydara FBX, a platform-independent 3D authoring and interchange format, is now supported by over 30 industry partners, including Alias, Discreet, Maxon, NewTek, Softimage, and Strata. With the community of industry supporters continuing to grow, Kaydara FBX is now considered the de facto 3D interchange format.
"Content reuse and asset exchange between diverse applications is the key to the future of the professional industry, making it possible to eventually expand into the consumer market space," says Michel Besner, president of Kaydara. "Kaydara FBX opens new possibilities and empowers users to create a best of breed pipeline by removing one of the longest standing barriers facing the 3D industry."
Kaydara FBX is a binary file format that supports all the major 3D data elements, as well as 2D, audio and video media elements. It provides access to all the major 3D vendors, which allows artists and production companies to easily work and freely exchange data from multiple software packages.
"Kaydara FBX makes it easier than ever to interact with and move 3D content," says Rob Hoffmann, senior Maya product marketing manager at Alias. "FBX acts as the hub of a wheel allowing 3D artists to move data between different 3D packages. Maya users benefit most from FBX when switching from another software package, and when working in production settings where there are multiple software packages in the pipeline. This type of asset movement is an extremely difficult task without Kaydara FBX."
Previous applications, which have tried to provide the flexibility and freedom of Kaydara FBX, have been unsuccessful because of their inability to provide a total solution that was approved by all the industry players. Therefore users needed to use multiple exchange applications to move content. FBX has succeeded because of its incredible breadth of supported content, including audio and video, and its vast acceptance by all major applications.
"The Kaydara FBX format is a powerful means of exchanging 3D data between multi-vendor applications," says Maurice Patel, head of product marketing, Discreet. "With today's digital artists requiring tighter integration between 3D and 2D compositing and visual effects, FBX provides a standardized means of bringing the two together with significant benefits to both our 3ds max and our flint, flame and inferno clients."
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