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At Siggraph last year myself and Brad Clark presented “The Animator Toolkit for Motion Builder”. Jason Parks presented a sister class called “Python for Motion Builder Artists”. His class is now available for purchase at lulu.com.

Jason’s class is quite well done and very informative on Python in general and also for using Python to automate repetitive tasks in Motion Builder. The lack of automation in Motion Builder was perhaps the number one complaint/request for a long while now. Autodesk partially addressed the issue with the addition of Python to Motion Builder. Jason’s thoughts on the process of scripting and usage of Motion builder are illuminating. The code he has provided with the class provides a really strong jumping off point to control and master Python and Motion Builder.

If your interested in Python and Motion Builder’s implementation of Python do check out the class!