Cascadeur

Cascadeur is a standalone software for creating 3D keyframe animation of humanoid or other characters. It uses AI-assisted tools to make keyframe animation easy and fun, allowing users to create realistic animations with full control.

• Cascadeur is designed for creating character animation without motion capture.
• It uses a physics-based approach, allowing for creating expressive and realistic animations for movies and video games.
• The recent version 2023.2 introduced audio support, USD format, and improved performance.

• Cascadeur provides tools for easy rigging, posing with AI assistance, physics.
• It offers a range of animation tools such as Trajectories, Ghosts, Copy Tool, Video Reference Import, and more.
• The Quick Rigging tool offers default templates for character creator.
• It supports twists for cases when twists are in the hierarchy.

• Cascadeur is suitable for beginners, professionals, animators, developers, game developers, riggers, 3D artists, and 3D generalists.
• It can be used for a wide range of purposes, including character animation for games, movies, cartoons, and cinematic films.
• Cascadeur is ideal for animating fighters, knights, ninjas, samurais, and other characters requiring complex movements and actions.

Cascadeur offers several subscription options:

• Basic: Free for revenue <$100k/yr.
• Pro: $300 per user, per year. It turns into a perpetual license after 1 year.
• Business: $1000 per user, per year. It turns into a perpetual license after 1 year.
• Enterprise: Custom service for specific needs.

The top alternatives to Cascadeur are:

• Blender
• iClone
• MotionBuilder
• Akeytsu
• Rumba.