Cascadeur Research Explores Zero-Gravity Character Animation

Cascadeur’s team explains its research into weightless movement and physically plausible keyframe animation.

Archive republication: This article was originally published on 27 January 2021. It has been translated into English and lightly updated for clarity while preserving the original reporting and context.

Zero-Gravity Research

The team behind Cascadeur shared its research into movement in zero gravity and explained how it created believable character animation with the software. The complete study appeared at 80 Level.

What Is Cascadeur?

Cascadeur is designed for physically plausible keyframe animation. The software was announced in 2019, remained in closed beta until summer 2020 and then entered a free open beta.

Digital Production 02 : 2021

Digital Production also covered Cascadeur in a feature for issue 02 : 2021.