Best for: Natural keyframe character animation with physics help
3D character animation software with AI help: set a few keyframes, and AutoPosing completes natural poses, Inbetweening fills the motion, and AutoPhysics adds inertia. Good for believable runs, jumps and combat moves without a mocap setup.
DeepMotion Animate 3DVideo to 3D motion capture
Turning a phone video into 3D character animation
Browser-based AI motion capture. Upload a video from any device, pick a character (your FBX, GLB or VRM, or a default), and it retargets the motion onto it. Good for game mocap without suits, with face and hand tracking and FBX, BVH, GLB or MP4 export.
PlaskAI motion capture from video
Free-to-start video mocap for Blender and Unreal workflows
Turns video footage into 3D character animation: upload a clip, apply the motion to your own character, and edit the scene before rendering or exporting FBX, BVH or GLB. Good for indie animators; Plask Live streams motion into Blender and Unreal.
Rokoko VisionAI video-to-mocap (Rokoko Create)
Single-camera mocap that you clean up in Rokoko Studio
AI motion capture from a single video, no suit or markers. Upload footage to Rokoko Create, refine it in Rokoko Studio, and export FBX or BVH for your engine. Good for quick game character motion without mocap hardware; version 3.0 has a rebuilt solver.
NVIDIA KimodoOpen-source AI text-to-motion animation
Free text-to-motion animation if you can run Python on an NVIDIA GPU
NVIDIA's open-source research model that generates 3D character animation from text prompts plus keyframe poses, hand and foot targets, paths and waypoints. You run it locally with Python on an NVIDIA GPU and export BVH for SOMA skeletons.