Kaydara announced its first Certified Courseware DVD for MOTIONBUILDER, the company's award-winning character animation solution. INTRODUCTION TO MOTIONBUILDER 5.5 is an interactive training guide that teaches users the fundamentals of using MOTIONBUILDER more effectively to create character animation. From interface and general concepts to exporting to other 3D applications, users will learn step-by-step how use MOTIONBUILDER for their own projects.

Kaydara Certified Courseware provides an in-depth guide to the latest and most exciting features, and how these features apply to a production environment. Kaydara Courseware products are fully supported and designed for self-paced learning.

The INTRODUCTION TO MOTIONBUILDER 5.5 DVD is comprised of eight modules, totaling 58 tutorials presented as screen capture demos and provides more than four hours of instruction. All the original files used in each of the lessons on the Courseware are included as FBX files; once the user is done watching the tutorials, they can immediately practice what they learned in Motionbuilder.

INTRODUCTION TO MOTIONBUILDER 5.5 is available now for $139. For more information about Kaydara Certified Courseware, or to download a free sample lesson from INTRODUCTION TO MOTIONBUILDER 5.5, visit www.kaydara.com.

Over the course of the past decade, Montreal-based Kaydara has become a leader in the development of realtime 3D character animation and motion editing solutions for the entertainment industry. Kaydara's product portfolio serves a vast and varied range of clients in the TV, film, game development and Web content industries, including Sony Computer Ent. of America, Ubisoft, Midway Games, Acclaim, Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Capcom and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.