Mixamo wants to democratize game creation. It is advancing that cause today with the launch of Fuse, a universal 3D character creation tool that will be available on Valve’s Steam game distribution network.
Mixamo tools automate the process of creating zombies.
On top of that, Valve is making a few characters from its Team Fortress 2 game available to be used in Mixamo’s library of animations. That means that game creators will be able to take the various body parts of the Team Fortress 2 characters and use them in brand new digital characters. The result is hundreds of assets that can be reused to create thousands of new characters.
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