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Traditionally, whether working in movies or games, rigging a character you've spent weeks and months creating can be a stressful trial. You can model something amazing in Blender, block out a design, but getting that thing to a place where you can actually make it perform ? That’s a different discipline entirely, one that involves rigging, testing, fixing, exporting, and breaking it again somewhere else. It’s a time sink that can cost money and sap momentum from a project, and the 3D workflow can also be daunting for newcomers, but Autodesk thinks it has the solution.

The latest update to Flow Studio , Autodesk's AI cinematic platform, adds two new features: AI Rigging and Neural Layer.…