Animusic MIDImotion

Title link takes you to the Animusic website. They created proprietary software they call MIDImotion that "plays" 3D animation with MIDI sequences. Each instrument has a different 3D animation. When you play a piece of music, the animation plays in sync. Unfortunately at this point they have not released MIDImotion for others, but they are considering it. Check out the video samples online to get an idea of what it is.


"Animusic uses proprietary motion generation software called MIDImotionTM, to drive animation parameters within commercial packages." "But no matter what commercial software we use, the animation is always calculated procedurally with MIDImotion. This software is not currently available commercially, although it is likely that we will release a software product at some point in the future (many people have encouraged us to do so). Details will be posted here.

Without MIDImotion, animating instruments using traditional "keyframing" techniques would be prohibitively time-consuming and inaccurate. By combining motion generated by approximately 12 algorithms (each with 10 to 50 parameters), the instrument animation is automatically generated with sub-frame accuracy. If the music is changed, the animation is regenerated effortlessly.