BIP (Character Studio)

BIP (Biped motion file) is an animation-related modeling format associated with Character Studio.

Character Studio was originally(?) an application by a company named Discreet. It later became a component of Autodesk's 3ds Max. It has also been associated with something named Kinetix.

Identification
More research needed. Files are observed to start with bytes.

Software

 * XnView - Can decode the preview image contained in some files.

Sample files

 * Character Studio (Release 2) → .../*.BIP
 * Kinetix Character Studio 1.0 → .../*.BIP
 * 3D World Issue 143 CD → DiscContents/resources/mocap/Data/...
 * ...Free/Soccer_TrapShoot.rar → TrapShoot/Soccer_TrapShoot_Azumi.bip
 * ...Premium/Golf_Driver.zip → DriverTest/DriverTest/DriverTest.bip