Animation & RiggingEdit

Technical animation, rigging, motion capture. Animation principles and theory are under Art, Design & Visual Storytelling.

Animation: Channels & Tutorials

Channels, courses and tutorials on 2D, motion and interactive animation.

• Adding Animation to Buttons in Flutter using Rive. Simple Animated Menu Toggle Button in Rive.
• AJ Picard. Complex background animations using SwiftUI & Rive.App.
• Alan Becker Tutorials. Animation tutorials by stick-figure animator.
• Alex Grigg. Animation for Anyone series.
• Alex Kunchevsky. YouTube channel of Alex Kunchevsky with motion design and Procreate animation tutorials.
• Build an animated app. Free course that teaches you how to design and code an iOS/SwiftUI app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts, and interactions.
• Create animated UI in Unity using Rive and Noesis. Tutorial on how to add Rive to your Unity games using Noesis.
• Create Rive-ting Animations. "Rive reduces the time it takes to make complex animation, making some motion items easier and faster to build."
• Flutter Community. Demonstrating Rive on the Flutter Community live stream for the 2022 Flutter Puzzle Hack.
• Flutter SVG Animations with Rive (Reso Coder). - Sprinkling some beautiful animations across your app.
• Flutter Web and Rive Animation Tutorial. Beginner to intermediate tutorial for setting up a Flutter web app with Rive animations.
• Josh Toonen. Unreal Engine cinematics: animated decals, cinematic environments, faster filmmaking.
• Olof Storm. YouTube channel of Olof Storm with videos about animation and art.
• Optimization techniques. Techniques to optimize Rive animations in React apps.
• Plant Blog. NextJS blog template with Rive to show animated blog thumbnails and syncing scroll to Rive animations deployed on Vercel. Code.
• Pointer Tracking Animation Implemented in Webflow. How to set up a Rive file with pointer tracking for Webflow implementation.
• Rive Flutter Animation. Best approach for animation in 2023.
• Riveflow. Learn how to create next-level interactive animations for Webflow websites with Rive.
• School of Motion (YouTube). School of Motion YouTube channel with motion design tutorials and talks.
• SwiftUI Animated Login Screen using Rive. Teddy Bear Animation, create an animated and interactive Login screen.
• The Power of Rive: A New Standard for Interactive Animations. "We've been playing around with this awesome interactive animation tool called Rive, and it's blown us away!".
• The Principles of Animation: Interactive Edition. Interactive web explainer of the 12 principles of animation.
• Toniko Pantoja. Animation industry and technique.

AI Motion Capture & Animation

AI-powered mocap and character animation tools.

Related:

• AnimateDiff + ControlNet. Open-source controlled video animation from poses.

Mocap & Animation Libraries

Downloadable motion-capture and game animation clips: stores, free packs, engine samples, animal mocap.

• ACCAD Open Motion Project. Ohio State ACCAD Vicon mocap library of walking, running, martial arts, gestures, and dance, in BVH, C3D, and ASF/AMC.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• ActorCore Free tier. Motion-capture library from Reallusion.
• Anderson Rohr Free Mocap Packs. Free mocap packs on Gumroad from a UE artist. Everyday actions, crowd reactions, fitness, soccer and MetaHuman-ready clips.
• Animation Starter Pack. Epic free pack of 62 animations for the classic UE Mannequin: locomotion, crouch, rifle aim, jumps, and deaths for prototyping.
• AnimationShopee Paid. Per-clip mocap store with 2,700+ FBX animations (combat, zombie, dance, sports, daily life) at $1 each plus bundled motion packs.
• Awesome Dog Mocap Paid. Dog motion capture animation packs sold as FBX and on Unity Asset Store, Fab, and the iClone marketplace.
• Carnegie-Mellon University Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database BVH conversions. 2500 free human motion-capture clips in BVH format.
• cMonkeys Huge FBX Mocap Library. 2,534 CMU mocap clips converted to grouped FBX files for Unity, mirrored on Internet Archive.
• Explosive Free tier. Game animation packs for Unity, Unreal, and Godot/Blender, incl. RPG Character pack (1,437 clips), Crafting, and Warrior sets, with free versions.
• Free Motion Pack 1. 21 free mocap FBX animations on the Mixamo Exo Gray armature with T-pose on frame 1 for retargeting.
• Game Animation Sample Project. Epic sample with 500+ mocap locomotion and traversal clips driven by Motion Matching, compatible with all UE Mannequins and MetaHumans.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Game MoCap Paid. Mocap dance, emote, and locomotion packs for Unity and Unreal, incl. hip hop, club, and Arabian dance sets.
• HEAT Free tier. Online library of 1,000+ root-motion mocap clips with on-the-fly retargeting and plugins for Blender, Daz Studio, Unity, and UE5.
• Kevin Iglesias Free tier. Humanoid game animation packs (Basic Motions, Melee, Archer, Spellcasting, Crafting, Soldier) with free versions of most packs and Blender source files.
• Kinetic Impulse Horse Mocap Paid. Licensed horse mocap data: treadmill gait set (walk, trot, canter, gallop, transitions) plus a freestyle stunt library (rearing, bucking, turns).
• Kubold Paid. Mocap animset vendor: Movement, Sword, Longsword, Spear and Halberd, Pistol, and FPP Melee sets built from real fencing and combat capture.
• Lyra Starter Game. Epic UE5 sample shooter with 300+ Mannequin animations (locomotion and actions) reusable via retargeting.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Mesh2Motion. FREE & open-source web application to animate your 3D models. Supports humanoid, four-legged, and bird creatures.
  See also: Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• MetaHuman Cinema Pack Paid. Fab pack of 562 Xsens-captured MetaHuman clips (talking, acting, office work, locomotion) plus face and hand pose libraries for UE 5.7/5.8.
• Mixamo. Rigged characters, auto-rigger, and free animation library (Adobe).
  See also: Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Specialized
• Mocap ATLAS Free tier. Swiss studio mocap store: 120fps Vicon locomotion, idles, turns, and jumps in UE5, Unity, FBX, and BVH, with a free clip collection.
• MoCap Central Free tier. Mocap animation packs (Core Motion 447 clips, Longsword, Village Life, Seated) delivered as UE5 MetaHuman and Unity Humanoid projects.
• MoCap Online Paid. Mocap animation store with 2,500+ clips in 30+ themed packs (locomotion, rifle, pistol, zombie) shipped as FBX, BVH, BIP, UE, Unity, Blender, and iClone.
• MocapClub Free, non-commercial. Motion Capture Society library of 500+ marker-data motions (fights, acrobatics, game moves) plus two dog packs, in C3D and TRC.
• mocapdata.com Free tier. Eyes, JAPAN mocap library with 4,671 free and 933 paid Vicon-captured motions (fighting, sports, dance, daily actions) in FBX, BVH, and C3D.
• Movement Animset Pro Paid. Kubold mocap pack of 180+ unarmed third-person clips (walk, run, crouch, jump, fist fight, interactions) in in-place and root-motion versions.
• Paragon Animations Retargeted to Manny. Community pack of 5,300 humanoid animations from Epic's free Paragon heroes, retargeted to the UE5 Manny skeleton.
• PoserMocap Paid. Mocap move packs (Everyday, Spy, Zombie, Swordplay, Sci-Fi) for Daz Genesis and Poser figures as PZ2, aniBlocks, and BVH.
• RamsterZ Animations Free tier. Game animation packs (hand-to-hand combat, melee, horror) in FBX for UE and Unity, with free sample sets incl. Free Anims Vol 1 (44 clips).
• RancidMilk Free Character Animations. 2,000+ CMU mocap clips converted to FBX and glTF and retargeted in Blender with Auto-Rig Pro, plus a control-rig Blender file and index.
• Rokoko Motion Library Free tier. Mocap marketplace inside Rokoko Studio with thousands of clips from studios and stunt performers, retargetable to Mixamo, UE, and HumanIK rigs as FBX.
• The Motion Capture Library Paid. Centroid's per-clip mocap store from Pinewood Studios: locomotion, combat, crowd, sword, and horse packs as 120fps MotionBuilder FBX.
• Truebones iClone Zoo. Free animal pack: 75+ animated animals (insects, reptiles, birds, dinosaurs) with motions in iAvatar and iMotion format for iClone.
• Truebones Studios Free tier. Gumroad store for Truebones mocap libraries in FBX and BVH, incl. free UE complete mocap library and animal Zoo packs.
• Unity Starter Assets. Unity first- and third-person controllers with a rigged humanoid armature and locomotion animations, built on Cinemachine and Input System.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Xsens Free Mocap Assets. Free Xsens inertial mocap clips: 5 walk/run, 10 sports, and 7 dance animations as HD-reprocessed FBX with an MVN T-pose puppet.
• XSTAGE Mixed. Mocap library of K-pop dance, VTuber, emote, idle, and locomotion clips in FBX, BVH, ANIM, and MMD formats.

Mocap Datasets

Research and open motion-capture datasets in BVH, FBX and SMPL. Most are non-commercial.

• 100STYLE. Ian Mason's Xsens BVH locomotion set covering 100 walking and running styles, about 4M frames at 60 fps.
• 3DPW Free, non-commercial. MPI 3D Poses in the Wild: 60 outdoor video sequences with SMPL poses recovered from IMUs and a handheld camera.
• ACCAD Open Motion Project. Ohio State ACCAD Vicon mocap library of walking, running, martial arts, gestures, and dance, in BVH, C3D, and ASF/AMC.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• AIST++ Dance Motion Dataset. Google 3D dance dataset reconstructed from multi-view AIST video, 5.2 hours and 1,408 sequences across 10 genres with music.
• AMASS Free, non-commercial. Max Planck archive unifying 15+ optical mocap datasets into SMPL/SMPL-X body parameters, 40+ hours and 300+ subjects.
• ARCTIC Free, non-commercial. ETH and MPI dataset of two hands manipulating articulated objects, 2.1M frames with MANO hands, SMPL-X bodies, and 9 views.
• BABEL Free, non-commercial. MPI action label layer over AMASS: 43 hours of mocap with frame-level and sequence-level English action labels.
• Bandai Namco Research Motiondataset. Free motion-capture dataset from Bandai Namco R&D for research and personal use.
• BEAT Free, non-commercial. Body-Expression-Audio-Text dataset of 76 hours of speech gesture mocap from 30 speakers, with audio, text, and emotion labels.
• BEAT2 (EMAGE) Free, non-commercial. BEAT2 dataset from the EMAGE project: 60 hours of SMPL-X body, hand, and FLAME face mocap for co-speech gesture.
• CHI3D Free, non-commercial. IMAR close-interaction mocap of pairs hugging, pushing, and fighting, with contact annotations and GHUM/SMPL-X fits.
• CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database. Carnegie Mellon optical mocap archive of 2,600+ clips across 140+ subjects, searchable by subject and category, in ASF/AMC and C3D.
• CMU Panoptic Studio Dataset Free, non-commercial. Carnegie Mellon dome captures from 480 VGA and 31 HD cameras, with 3D body, hand, and face keypoints of social interactions.
• DIP-IMU Free, non-commercial. MPI Deep Inertial Poser dataset of 10 subjects wearing 17 Xsens IMUs, about 90 minutes with SMPL pose ground truth.
• EgoBody Free, non-commercial. ETH egocentric dataset of social interactions captured with HoloLens 2 and Kinects, with SMPL-X fits for both people.
• FaceScape Free, non-commercial. Nanjing University 3D face dataset of 938 subjects with 20 expressions each, topology-unified meshes and 4K textures.
• FineDance Free, non-commercial. Tsinghua dance mocap dataset of 14.6 hours across 22 genres with paired music, SMPL-H body and finger motion.
• Fit3D Free, non-commercial. IMAR fitness mocap dataset of 3M+ frames covering 47 exercises, with marker mocap, GHUM/SMPL-X fits, and multi-view video.
• GENEA Challenge 2023 Dataset Free, non-commercial. GENEA challenge dyadic speech-gesture data based on Talking With Hands, with BVH body motion and audio for both speakers.
• GRAB Free, non-commercial. MPI whole-body grasping mocap of 10 subjects with 51 objects, giving SMPL-X body, MANO hands, and object meshes.
• HDM05 Motion Capture Database Free, non-commercial. Uni Bonn and MPI database of 3+ hours of mocap from 5 actors in 130 action classes, with short labeled clips, in C3D and ASF/AMC.
• Human3.6M Free, non-commercial. IMAR benchmark of 3.6M 3D human poses from 11 actors in 17 scenarios, with synced 4-view video, mocap, and depth scans.
• HumanAct12 Free, non-commercial. Action-to-Motion project dataset of 1,191 Kinect-captured clips in 12 action categories with fine sub-labels, as SMPL poses.
• HumanEva Free, non-commercial. Brown University benchmark syncing multi-camera video with 3D mocap of subjects walking, jogging, and gesturing.
• HumanML3D Free, non-commercial. Text-motion dataset of 14,616 motions from AMASS and HumanAct12 paired with 44,970 English descriptions, 28.6 hours.
• HuMMan Free, non-commercial. SenseTime and NTU multimodal 4D human dataset of 1,000 subjects and 500 actions with color, depth, point clouds, and SMPL fits.
• InterHand2.6M Free, non-commercial. Meta Reality Labs dataset of 2.6M frames of single and interacting hands with 3D joint and MANO annotations from multi-view capture.
• InterHuman (InterGen) Free, non-commercial. Two-person interaction mocap dataset of 7,779 motions and 6.56 hours with text descriptions, from the InterGen project.
• KIT Motion-Language Dataset Free, non-commercial. KIT text-annotated mocap set of 3,911 motions with 6,278 natural-language descriptions, drawn from KIT and CMU databases.
• KIT Whole-Body Human Motion Database Free, non-commercial. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology mocap database of whole-body human and object motion, normalized to the MMM reference model.
• LAFAN1 (Ubisoft La Forge) Free, non-commercial. Ubisoft La Forge BVH mocap set of 77 sequences from 5 subjects, about 4.6 hours of locomotion, fights, dance, and obstacles.
• MANN Dog Motion Capture (AI4Animation) Free, non-commercial. Edinburgh quadruped mocap of a dog walking, trotting, sitting, and jumping, from the Mode-Adaptive Neural Networks paper.
• Motion-X Free, non-commercial. IDEA Research whole-body SMPL-X motion dataset with face and hands, 81.1K clips and 15.6M frames, with text labels.
• Motorica Dance Dataset Free, non-commercial. KTH and Motorica optical mocap of 6 hours of dance in 8 styles, retargeted to one BVH skeleton, with music.
• MPI-INF-3DHP Free, non-commercial. MPI markerless multi-camera 3D pose dataset of 8 actors, 14 views, with green-screen footage for augmentation.
• NUS Motion Capture Database Free, non-commercial. National University of Singapore Vicon mocap clips of locomotion, dance, and martial arts, hosted by SFU, in BVH and C3D.
• Nymeria Free, non-commercial. Meta Reality Labs dataset of 300 hours of daily-life Xsens full-body mocap paired with Project Aria egocentric video and narrations.
• RICH Free, non-commercial. MPI Real scenes, Interaction, Contact and Humans dataset: markerless multi-view capture with SMPL-X bodies, scene scans, and contact labels.
• SFU Motion Capture Database Free, non-commercial. Simon Fraser University mocap clips of dance, martial arts, and locomotion, in BVH, C3D, and ASF/AMC with preview videos.
• SURREAL Free, non-commercial. Inria synthetic dataset of 6M frames rendering SMPL bodies driven by CMU mocap, with depth, normals, and segmentation.
• TED Gesture Dataset Free, non-commercial. ETRI pipeline and prebuilt dataset of 3D upper-body gesture poses extracted from 1,766 TED talk videos with transcripts.
• TotalCapture Free, non-commercial. University of Surrey CVSSP dataset syncing 8-view video, 13 IMUs, and Vicon mocap for 5 subjects performing actions.
• Trinity Speech-Gesture Dataset Free, non-commercial. Trinity College Dublin mocap of spontaneous speech with synced audio and BVH body motion for gesture generation.
• ZEGGS Dataset (Ubisoft ZeroEGGS) Free, non-commercial. Ubisoft La Forge speech gesture set of 67 monologue takes in 19 styles, BVH plus WAV, with FBX characters.

Character Rigs: Maya

Free and paid Maya animation rigs, rig directories and creator stores.

• 11 Second Club Rigs Free, non-commercial. Recommended rig list for the 11 Second Club competition: Norman, Eleven, Moom, Max, Mery, Azri plus Blender rigs.
• Alorema Rigs Free tier. Stylized AdvancedSkeleton-based Maya rigs: free Franky, paid Megoo, Mia and Mailo, Jody.
• Andy Rig. Free SCAD student rig by John Doublestein with IK/FK matching, space switching, squash and stretch, facial setup.
• Animation Mentor Free Rigs Free, non-commercial. Free Animation Mentor Maya rigs Stewart (heavy body-mechanics character) and Squirrels (squash, stretch, tail), email signup.
• Animation Methods Maya Rigs Mixed. Archived directory of 150+ free and paid Maya character, creature, vehicle and prop rigs, linking to each creator's download page.
• Animator's Resource Kit Rigs Mixed. Blog cataloging free and paid animation rigs, tools and learning resources for Maya and Blender, one post per rig.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• AnimProps Mixed. Marketplace of 390+ 3D rigs for Maya and Blender plus 2D Moho rigs and animation tools from many sellers.
• AnimSchool Malcolm Free, non-commercial. Free AnimSchool Maya character with wardrobe and hair options, facial controls and the AnimSchool Picker, downloaded 150k+ times.
• AnimStarter Rig Directory Mixed. Curated directory of 40+ Maya and Blender animation rigs with demo videos, filterable by software and price.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Animworks Free Maya Rigs Free, non-commercial. Hub of 60+ free Maya rigs from game and film animators, many built on mGear, covering characters, creatures and vehicles.
• Artem Dubyna Rigs Free tier. Cartoon Maya rigs by Artem Dubyna (TemaRoots): free Tomas cat, Amanda, Mikey and paid Jerry, Tom, Yu-Lon.
• Azri Rig Free, non-commercial. Free game-style Maya rig with dual scythes, IK/FK hands and skirt auto-follow, built for fast playback; Maya 2018+.
• Built By Colossus Free tier. Maya character rigs: free Ninja and Azula, paid Brawler, Liz, Harlow, Rex, Steggy at $24 or as an 8-rig bundle.
• Character Rigs Shop Paid. Store of paid realistic and stylized Maya character rigs (Nina, Liam, Brad, Elephant) sold singly or in combos, plus custom rigging.
• Christoph Schoch Rigs Free, non-commercial. Free fan-art Maya rigs by Christoph Schoch: Link, Ruby Rose, Liger, Shinobi, Efi Oladele, game-character style.
• Eleven Rig. Open-source 11 Second Club rig with adjustable gender and body type, IK/FK limbs and hand poses; Maya 2014 and earlier.
• Emilio Serrano Rigs Free, non-commercial. Free mGear-built Maya rigs by Act III animator Emilio Serrano: robots, creatures, quadrupeds and fan-art characters.
• fRigging Awesome Studios Free tier. Josh Sobel's Maya rig shop: Bonnie 2, Kayla Unlimited, Ricardo Unlimited, Mecha-Mechs, with free Kayla-Bot.
• GetRigs Mixed. Maya asset store from Animation Methods where creators give away or sell rigs, props, environments and scripts, sorted by character, animal, creature, robot and vehicle.
• Joe Daniels Rigs Free tier. Joe Daniels' Maya practice rigs: free flour sack and juicebox for weight drills plus paid character rigs.
• Kiel Figgins Rigs Free tier. Kiel Figgins' Maya rig store: 50+ paid game-ready rigs via TurboSquid plus about 12 free rigs (TMNT, Deadpool, Xenomorph) and MEL tools.
• Long Winter Studios Paid. Membership library of 30+ Maya rigs on one unified control system with blendshape faces and bendy limbs, plus BLINK manager plugin.
• Lord Luigi Rigs Free tier. Freelance rigger Lord Luigi's Maya rigs and prop-rigging tutorials, incl. Baby rig and Priestess rig.
• M-Rigs (Ramon Arango) Paid. Paid stylized Maya rigs by Ramon Arango with painterly 2D-look facial animation, Mazu and Mukuru, sold singly or as bundle.
• MegaBuBu Rigs Free tier. Anime-style Maya rigs by MegaBuBu with cloth and skirt rigs and toon viewport shader: free Reimu, paid Sanae and Sakuya.
• Mery Project Free, non-commercial. Free stylized female Maya rig with detailed facial controls, for practice and demo reel use only.
• Moom Rig. Free cartoon Maya rig by Ramtin Ahmadi with IK/FK arms and feet, stretchy spine and neck, facial control panel.
• Perry Leijten Rigs Free, non-commercial. Free Maya creature rigs Skaarj and Blurgha plus character rigs and skinning tools by rigger Perry Leijten.
• ProRigs Paid. Subscription library of 35+ feature-film-style Maya characters and 20+ props from DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar riggers, Arnold-ready.
• Puppeteer Lounge Rigs Paid. Indian animation academy selling rigged Maya puppets ($5 to $200) incl. realistic quadruped tiger, ape and orc.
• Ray (CGTarian) Free, non-commercial. Free Maya character built with DreamWorks rig specialists, full facial rig for acting and dialogue, no plugins or picker needed.
• Roly HL Free Rigs Free, non-commercial. Free Maya rigs by Roly HL for practice and challenges: Woody, Buzz, Andy's Room set, DeLorean, station wagon.
• Rusty Animator Free Maya Rigs Mixed. Curated guide to free Maya rigs grouped by skill: basics, body mechanics, acting, creatures, props and vehicles.
• Shalaby Rigs Free tier. Ahmed Shalaby's Maya rigs: free educational X-Rig, paid Dude 2.0 with three variations, Box-Men body rigs.
• Squiggly Rigs Free tier. Lightweight cartoon Maya rigs with bendy limbs, smear controls and full face: Thep mummy, Grey Matter Gary, Lee.
• Tre Vital Rigs Free, non-commercial. Free Maya creature rigs by Tre Vital: Wraith, Anthro Tiger, Argonian, Hekaton, Dragon, with IK tails.
• Truong CG Artist Rigs Free, non-commercial. Truong's Gumroad of mostly free Maya creature and character rigs: dragons, lizards, Hydralisk, elephant, Boxy walker.

Character Rigs: Other Apps

Animation rigs for Blender, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Unreal, Unity, Daz and 2D apps.

• Ace5 Studios Rig Shop (Cinema 4D) Paid. Shop of animation-ready Cinema 4D character rigs (Meldon, Missy and others) with IK/FK and face controls.
• anima.to Rigs. Community index of animation rigs filterable by software (Blender, Maya and others) with links to free and paid sources.
• Animation Guides Free Puppets (Character Animator). Free rigged Adobe Character Animator puppets with walk cycles, head turns, lip sync and gesture triggers.
• Animator's Resource Kit Rigs Mixed. Blog cataloging free and paid animation rigs, tools and learning resources for Maya and Blender, one post per rig.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• AnimStarter Rig Directory Mixed. Curated directory of 40+ Maya and Blender animation rigs with demo videos, filterable by software and price.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Autumn Rig (Blender). Spring open movie rig for Blender: the shepherd dog Autumn, with production body and face controls.
• Beefy4D (Cinema 4D). Free bulky character rig for Cinema 4D converted from the Maya Beefy rig, for body mechanics practice.
• Blender Studio Character Library Mixed. Blender Studio library of production character rigs from open movies, free CC-BY rigs plus subscriber-only archive.
• Bony4D (Cinema 4D). Free mannequin character rig for Cinema 4D by Ace5 Studios for body mechanics practice.
• Cartoon Animator Content Store (Cartoon Animator) Mixed. Reallusion store of rigged G3 2D characters and motions for Cartoon Animator, with free resources in-app.
• Cascadeur Scenes (RenderHub) Mixed. RenderHub section of ready-rigged Cascadeur .casc character scenes, free and paid.
• Character Object (Cinema 4D) Paid. Cinema 4D template rig builder with biped, quadruped, bird and fish presets for fast character rigs.
• Characters Content Pack (Moho) Paid. Eight rigged, animated Moho characters with bone IK and Smart Bones examples.
• Cookie Flex Rig (Blender). CG Cookie's customizable Blender character rig with body shape, face and clothing controls, released Creative Commons.
• Dave Character Rig (Blender) Paid. Cartoon Blender character built on CloudRig with full face rig and face and finger pose libraries.
• Einar Rig (Blender). Old man character rig from Blender Studio's Charge film, with production body and face rig.
• Electra Rig (Houdini). SideFX APEX character rig for Houdini 20.5 with full body IK, IK/FK blend, reverse foot, blend shapes and delta mush.
• Ellie Rig (Blender). Sprite Fright teen character rig for Blender with full body and face controls, production-tested.
• Erik Rig (Houdini). Rigged human character FBX from the SideFX content library for testing KineFX retargeting and animation.
• Free Girl Character Rig (Cinema 4D). Free stylized girl character for Cinema 4D, rigged and ready for motion design animation.
• Free Skeleton Rig (Blender) Free, non-commercial. Stylized skeleton warrior rig for Blender 4.4+ with equipment toggles, cloth physics and shader controls.
• Game Animation Sample Project. Epic sample with 500+ mocap locomotion and traversal clips driven by Motion Matching, compatible with all UE Mannequins and MetaHumans.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Genesis 9 Starter Essentials (Daz Studio). Free rigged Genesis 9 base figure with character presets, clothing, hair and poses, exportable via Daz bridges.
• Keeper of the Lighthouse (3ds Max) Free, non-commercial. Free stylized old sailor character for 3ds Max rigged from scratch with CAT, ready to animate.
• KineFX APEX Rigging & ML Skinning (Houdini). Houdini 20 scene with horse quadruped and humanoid rigs built in APEX, using ML deformation for skinning.
• Luchador & Chicken (Houdini). Two annotated APEX character rigs for Houdini by Od Studios covering autorig components and procedural skinning.
• Lyra Starter Game. Epic UE5 sample shooter with 300+ Mannequin animations (locomotion and actions) reusable via retargeting.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Mannequins Asset Pack (Unreal). Manny and Quinn UE5 mannequins with Control Rigs for keyframing in Sequencer, sharing the MetaHuman skeleton.
• MetaHuman Creator (Unreal). Epic's free realistic human generator inside UE 5.6+, outputs fully rigged body and face characters, exportable to Maya.
• P2Design Free Rigs (Blender). Pierrick Picaut's free Blender rigs: Trident, Mannequin, Crimson Ronin, P2DBOT, Trex, Mech and a 2D camera rig.
• Paragon Characters (Unreal). Epic's free Paragon hero characters on Fab: rigged game characters with skins and animation sets.
• Rain Rig (Blender). Free stylized female Blender rig from Blender Studio with IK/FK snapping, face controls and pose library, no add-ons needed.
• Rex Rig (Blender). Sprite Fright teen character rig for Blender with body and facial controls from the production.
• RigsArena (3ds Max). Blog index of 400+ free 3ds Max character, animal and prop rigs sorted by category.
• Robot Kyle (Unity). Free Unity robot character with humanoid rig, a common test model for Mecanim retargeting.
• Shalabology Free Rigs (3ds Max). Free 3ds Max rigs by Shalabology: biped, Cute Box, horse quadruped and Shiko character rigs.
• Simple Character Rig (Blender). Joey Carlino's lightweight Blender character rig with IK/FK limbs, heel and toe foot pivots and optional face rig.
• Sir Owl Rig (Toon Boom Harmony) Free, non-commercial. Free Toon Boom Harmony cut-out owl rig for animation practice and demo reels.
• Snow Rig (Blender). Free stylized male Blender rig from Blender Studio built on the Sprite Fright rig system, with IK/FK, layered face controls and pose library.
• Spineboy Example (Spine). Official Spine 2D example project showing meshes, IK, transform constraints and clipping on a rigged character.
• Sprite Rig (Blender). Sprite Fright creature rig for Blender with facial poses and animation loops from the film.
• Storm Rig (Blender) Paid. Blender Studio production rig for Blender 5 with body, hand and face pose libraries for fast blocking.
• Template-Chan (Toon Boom Harmony). Toon Boom Harmony cut-out character rig template for practice or reskinning into your own character.
• Toon Rig (Cinema 4D) Paid. Built-in Cinema 4D Character Object preset for cartoon rigs with stretch, squash and bendy limbs.
• UE5 Mannequin Blender Rig (Blender). Free Blender control rig for the UE5 Manny skeleton with root motion, FK/IK snapping and finger controls.
• UE5-Blender-Rig (Blender). Open Blender rig for UE5 Manny and Quinn skeletons with soft IK, IK/FK switch UI, finger rig and FBX export guide.
• Unity Starter Assets. Unity first- and third-person controllers with a rigged humanoid armature and locomotion animations, built on Cinemachine and Input System.
  See also: Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Unity-Chan (Unity). Unity Technologies Japan's free anime character with humanoid rig, animations, facial blendshapes and voices.
• Vincent Rig (Blender) Paid. Classic Blender Institute cartoon character rig with squash and stretch body and expressive face controls.

AI Motion Capture Software

Also in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software