Resources tagged: animation

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• 📺 Custom Character Skeletons and Animations ~ Upside Tutorials channel. Custom character skeletons and animation in Unreal.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms
• 📺📜 Control Rig ~ Ask A Dev channel. Control Rig tutorials for character animation. 22 videos.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• 100STYLE asset-source. Ian Mason's Xsens BVH locomotion set covering 100 walking and running styles, about 4M frames at 60 fps.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• 11 Second Club Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Recommended rig list for the 11 Second Club competition: Norman, Eleven, Moom, Max, Mery, Azri plus Blender rigs.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• 3ds Max Paid software. Autodesk polygonal DCC widely used in archviz, games, and broadcast VFX.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• ACCAD Open Motion Project asset-source. Ohio State ACCAD Vicon mocap library of walking, running, martial arts, gestures, and dance, in BVH, C3D, and ASF/AMC.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Ace5 Studios Rig Shop (Cinema 4D) Paid asset-source. Shop of animation-ready Cinema 4D character rigs (Meldon, Missy and others) with IK/FK and face controls.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Acl Ue4 Plugin plugin. Official Animation Compression Library plugin for Unreal Engine 4.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• Adding Animation to Buttons in Flutter using Rive channel. Simple Animated Menu Toggle Button in Rive.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• After Effects Paid software. Motion graphics and compositing.
  in Software Reference → VFX & Compositing Software
• AIST++ Dance Motion Dataset asset-source. Google 3D dance dataset reconstructed from multi-view AIST video, 5.2 hours and 1,408 sequences across 10 genres with music.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Alan Becker Tutorials channel. Animation tutorials by stick-figure animator.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Alembic reference. Geometry/animation interchange format (Sony + ILM).
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Pipeline Standards
• Alex Grigg channel. Animation for Anyone series.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Alex Kunchevsky channel. YouTube channel of Alex Kunchevsky with motion design and Procreate animation tutorials.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Align Your Gaussians: Text-to-4D with Dynamic 3D Gaussians and Composed Diffusion Models paper. Ling et al., CVPR 2024. Align Your Gaussians generates animated 4D objects from text with dynamic 3D Gaussians.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers
• Alorema Rigs Free tier asset-source. Stylized AdvancedSkeleton-based Maya rigs: free Franky, paid Megoo, Mia and Mailo, Jody.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• ALS Community community. Replicated, optimized community fork of Advanced Locomotion System V4.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• ALS Refactored plugin. Reworked C++ version of Advanced Locomotion System V4.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• AMASS Free, non-commercial asset-source. Max Planck archive unifying 15+ optical mocap datasets into SMPL/SMPL-X body parameters, 40+ hours and 300+ subjects.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Anderson Rohr Free Mocap Packs asset-source. Free mocap packs on Gumroad from a UE artist. Everyday actions, crowd reactions, fitness, soccer and MetaHuman-ready clips.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Andy Rig asset-source. Free SCAD student rig by John Doublestein with IK/FK matching, space switching, squash and stretch, facial setup.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• anima.to Rigs asset-source. Community index of animation rigs filterable by software (Blender, Maya and others) with links to free and paid sources.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• AnimAide plugin. Free animation helper tools for Blender.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• Animatable community. AE animation Discord. Narrative, illustrative, character-based animation community.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• Animatable Neural Radiance Fields for Modeling Dynamic Human Bodies paper. Peng et al., ICCV 2021. Builds animatable NeRF human models from multi-view video using skeleton-driven deformation fields.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers
• Animatable Neural Radiance Fields from Monocular RGB Videos paper. Chen et al., arXiv 2021. Builds animatable NeRF human avatars from monocular RGB video using a parametric body model.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers
• Animated AI channel. Animations and instructional videos about neural networks.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Inspiration & Showcase
• Animated Crosshairs UE4 asset-source. 17 ready-to-use animated UMG crosshair widgets with a demo scene.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• AnimateDiff + ControlNet tool. Open-source controlled video animation from poses.
  in Animation & Rigging → AI Motion Capture & Animation
• Animation Guides Free Puppets (Character Animator) asset-source. Free rigged Adobe Character Animator puppets with walk cycles, head turns, lip sync and gesture triggers.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Animation Layers Paid plugin. Blender add-on for layer-based animation with blending, merging and baking.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Animation Mentor Free Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Animation Mentor Maya rigs Stewart (heavy body-mechanics character) and Squirrels (squash, stretch, tail), email signup.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Animation Methods Maya Rigs Mixed asset-source. Archived directory of 150+ free and paid Maya character, creature, vehicle and prop rigs, linking to each creator's download page.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Animation Programming Basics channel. Basics of animation programming.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms
• Animation Resources reference. Archives of classic animation, frame-by-frame studies.
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles
• Animation Starter Pack asset-source. Epic free pack of 62 animations for the classic UE Mannequin: locomotion, crouch, rifle aim, jumps, and deaths for prototyping.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Animation with Dall-e + AE | Reddit community. Reddit thread on AI-assisted animation with DALL-E and After Effects.
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Drawing & Painting for 3D Artists
• AnimationShopee Paid asset-source. Per-clip mocap store with 2,700+ FBX animations (combat, zombie, dance, sports, daily life) at $1 each plus bundled motion packs.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Animator Guild (Howard Wimshurst) community. Howard Wimshurst's animator community Discord. Supports up-and-coming animators with critique and contests.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• Animator Island. 51 Exercises reference. Structured practice curriculum by difficulty.
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles
• Animator Timeline plugin. Timeline editor for Unity.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Animator's Resource Kit Rigs Mixed asset-source. Blog cataloging free and paid animation rigs, tools and learning resources for Maya and Blender, one post per rig.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Animators Guild community. India-focused animation community. Showcase, workshops, festival events, and AGI Bazaar for Indian animators and illustrators.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• Animators. Animation Hub community. 2D/3D/stop-motion animation community (~13K). Share work, get feedback, find jobs.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• animBot Paid plugin. Maya animation toolset for key editing, tweening, mirroring and graph editor helpers.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• AnimKit Paid plugin. Dockable Maya toolbar of selection-aware animation tools for tweening, key manipulation, and workflow cleanup.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• AnimProps Mixed marketplace. Marketplace of 390+ 3D rigs for Maya and Blender plus 2D Moho rigs and animation tools from many sellers.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• AnimSchool Malcolm Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free AnimSchool Maya character with wardrobe and hair options, facial controls and the AnimSchool Picker, downloaded 150k+ times.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• AnimStarter Communities reference. Curated index of animation communities across Discord, Slack, and forums.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• AnimStarter Rig Directory Mixed asset-source. Curated directory of 40+ Maya and Blender animation rigs with demo videos, filterable by software and price.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Animworks Free Maya Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Hub of 60+ free Maya rigs from game and film animators, many built on mGear, covering characters, creatures and vehicles.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Anything World Gallery Free tier asset-source. Animated, game-ready models.
  in Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Specialized
• APEX (Houdini) Paid plugin. SideFX's procedural node-based rigging framework.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Artem Dubyna Rigs Free tier asset-source. Cartoon Maya rigs by Artem Dubyna (TemaRoots): free Tomas cat, Amanda, Mikey and paid Jerry, Tom, Yu-Lon.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Aseprite software. Pixel art editor and sprite animation tool, sold commercially with its source code public on GitHub.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Audio2Face-3D (NVIDIA) software. NVIDIA models and SDK that drive facial animation from speech audio, with Maya and Unreal plugins.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Auto-Rig Pro (Blender) Paid plugin. Automatic rigging and retargeting.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Autograph software. USD-based motion graphics, compositing, and VFX (After Effects alternative). Free for individuals incl. commercial use. Originally Left Angle, now Maxon.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Autumn Rig (Blender) asset-source. Spring open movie rig for Blender: the shepherd dog Autumn, with production body and face controls.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Azri Rig Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free game-style Maya rig with dual scythes, IK/FK hands and skirt auto-follow, built for fast playback; Maya 2018+.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• BABEL Free, non-commercial asset-source. MPI action label layer over AMASS: 43 hours of mocap with frame-level and sequence-level English action labels.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Beefy4D (Cinema 4D) asset-source. Free bulky character rig for Cinema 4D converted from the Maya Beefy rig, for body mechanics practice.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Bforartists software. Open-source Blender fork with a menu and toolbar driven interface.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free
• Blender software. Free open-source 3D creation suite. Modeling, sculpting, animation, rendering, compositing, VFX.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free
• Blender NLA Midi Copier plugin. Creates MIDI-driven animations from Blender's Nonlinear Animation view.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• Blender Studio Character Library Mixed asset-source. Blender Studio library of production character rigs from open movies, free CC-BY rigs plus subscriber-only archive.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Bony4D (Cinema 4D) asset-source. Free mannequin character rig for Cinema 4D by Ace5 Studios for body mechanics practice.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Build an animated app tutorial. Free course that teaches you how to design and code an iOS/SwiftUI app with Rive animated assets, icon animations, custom layouts, and interactions.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Building Growth Animation tutorial. Building growth animation technique.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Miscellaneous Tutorials
• Built By Colossus Free tier asset-source. Maya character rigs: free Ninja and Azula, paid Brawler, Liz, Harlow, Rex, Steggy at $24 or as an 8-rig bundle.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Callipeg Paid software. Frame-by-frame 2D animation app for tablets and desktop.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Camera Shakify plugin. Adds realistic camera shake to Blender cameras.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• CamRig Pro Paid plugin. Camera rigging tool HDA by Shir Manor.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Plugins & Tools
• Cartoon Animator Content Store (Cartoon Animator) Mixed marketplace. Reallusion store of rigged G3 2D characters and motions for Cartoon Animator, with free resources in-app.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Cartwheel Paid software. Web studio that turns video into mocap, generates motion from text and retargets it to 3D characters.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Cascadeur Free, non-commercial software. AI-assisted physics-based keyframe character animation; free for non-commercial use.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier
• Cascadeur Scenes (RenderHub) Mixed marketplace. RenderHub section of ready-rigged Cascadeur .casc character scenes, free and paid.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Cavalry Free tier software. Procedural 2D motion design (After Effects alternative). Free tier available.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Character DNA Free tier plugin. Blender add-on that imports, edits and exports MetaHuman DNA files with RigLogic expressions.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Character Rigs Shop Paid asset-source. Store of paid realistic and stylized Maya character rigs (Nina, Liam, Brad, Elephant) sold singly or in combos, plus custom rigging.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Characters Content Pack (Moho) Paid asset-source. Eight rigged, animated Moho characters with bone IK and Smart Bones examples.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• CHEAPEST Motion Capture Setup for Metahumans ~ Charlie Driscoll channel. Budget motion capture setup for MetaHumans, aimed at filmmaking.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms
• Christoph Schoch Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free fan-art Maya rigs by Christoph Schoch: Link, Ruby Rose, Liger, Shinobi, Efi Oladele, game-character style.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Cinema 4D Paid software. Maxon's motion-graphics and procedural 3D DCC; ships with Redshift and 5 Team Render nodes.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• Clarafi (Gaël McGill / Digizyme) Paid tutorial. 3D molecular animation courses, Maya focus.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → Paid Tutorial Platforms
• Clip Studio Paint Paid software. Industry-standard illustration and comics with animation timeline.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database asset-source. Carnegie Mellon optical mocap archive of 2,600+ clips across 140+ subjects, searchable by subject and category, in ASF/AMC and C3D.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• COA Tools plugin. 2D cutout animation suite for Blender, similar to Spine or Spriter.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• Commotion (Blender add-on) plugin. Blender add-on for motion graphics.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Inspiration
• Cookie Flex Rig (Blender) asset-source. CG Cookie's customizable Blender character rig with body shape, face and clothing controls, released Creative Commons.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Create animated UI in Unity using Rive and Noesis channel. Tutorial on how to add Rive to your Unity games using Noesis.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Create Rive-ting Animations tutorial. "Rive reduces the time it takes to make complex animation, making some motion items easier and faster to build."
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• CvWrap tool. Open-source wrap deformer for Maya that binds one mesh to another, faster than the built-in wrap.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Dash Slide Puzzle (Runner Up - Animation/Design) inspiration. Flutter Puzzle Hack runner-up for animation and design: a slide puzzle race against an AI bot, built with Flutter and Rive.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Inspiration & Showcase
• Dave Character Rig (Blender) Paid asset-source. Cartoon Blender character built on CloudRig with full face rig and face and finger pose libraries.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Daz 3D Paid software. Character-focused 3D software w/ large marketplace of figures and morphs. Free core app.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• DeepMotion Free tier software. Game-ready character animation from video. BVH/FBX export.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Digital Art and Animation Discord community. Discord for animators, artists, and VFX people across 2D, 3D, modeling, CGI simulations.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• DoAnimation software. Browser frame-by-frame 2D animation. Layers, onion skinning, GIF/MP4 export. Files stay local.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• DragonBones software. Open source 2D skeletal animation. Flash-origin workflow, runtimes for multiple engines.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• DreamGaussian4D: Generative 4D Gaussian Splatting paper. Ren et al., arXiv 2023. DreamGaussian4D generates animated 4D content quickly with Gaussian splatting.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers
• DreamWaltz: Make a Scene with Complex 3D Animatable Avatars paper. Huang et al., NeurIPS 2023. DreamWaltz generates animatable 3D avatars from text with a human body prior.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers
• Duik plugin. Free After Effects rigging and animation toolkit with IK, walk cycles and automation.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities
• Easing Functions reference. Visual reference of common easing curves with code snippets.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities
• EasingCore plugin. Simple easing-function implementation for Unity.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• EasyMocap tool. Open-source toolbox for markerless human motion capture and novel view synthesis from RGB videos.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• ECS Tween plugin. Unity tweening system built on ECS that also works with GameObjects.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Einar Rig (Blender) asset-source. Old man character rig from Blender Studio's Charge film, with production body and face rig.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Electra Rig (Houdini) asset-source. SideFX APEX character rig for Houdini 20.5 with full body IK, IK/FK blend, reverse foot, blend shapes and delta mush.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Eleven Rig asset-source. Open-source 11 Second Club rig with adjustable gender and body type, IK/FK limbs and hand poses; Maya 2014 and earlier.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Ellie Rig (Blender) asset-source. Sprite Fright teen character rig for Blender with full body and face controls, production-tested.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Emilio Serrano Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free mGear-built Maya rigs by Act III animator Emilio Serrano: robots, creatures, quadrupeds and fan-art characters.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Emojiz Paid asset-source. 77+ animated 3D emoji illustrations with Blender source files.
  in Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Specialized
• Endless Reference reference. Video clips browsable by action type (walk, run, fight, etc.).
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles
• Erik Rig (Houdini) asset-source. Rigged human character FBX from the SideFX content library for testing KineFX retargeting and animation.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Explosive Free tier asset-source. Game animation packs for Unity, Unreal, and Godot/Blender, incl. RPG Character pack (1,437 clips), Crafting, and Warrior sets, with free versions.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• FineDance Free, non-commercial asset-source. Tsinghua dance mocap dataset of 14.6 hours across 22 genres with paired music, SMPL-H body and finger motion.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Flutter Community channel. Demonstrating Rive on the Flutter Community live stream for the 2022 Flutter Puzzle Hack.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Flutter SVG Animations with Rive (Reso Coder) tutorial. - Sprinkling some beautiful animations across your app.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Flutter Web and Rive Animation Tutorial tutorial. Beginner to intermediate tutorial for setting up a Flutter web app with Rive animations.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Free Girl Character Rig (Cinema 4D) asset-source. Free stylized girl character for Cinema 4D, rigged and ready for motion design animation.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Free Skeleton Rig (Blender) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Stylized skeleton warrior rig for Blender 4.4+ with equipment toggles, cloth physics and shader controls.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Fresh Cooked Tweens tool. Tweening library with curve easing for any value in Unreal Engine.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• Friction software. Free open-source motion graphics and 2D vector animation. After Effects-style workflow.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• fRigging Awesome Studios Free tier asset-source. Josh Sobel's Maya rig shop: Bonnie 2, Kayla Unlimited, Ricardo Unlimited, Mecha-Mechs, with free Kayla-Bot.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Fusion Character Animator tool. Small tool for Clickteam Fusion 2.5 to facilitate the animation of 2D character sprites for developers.
  in Game Development → Game Dev Tools: Sprite & VFX
• Game Animation Sample Project asset-source. Epic sample with 500+ mocap locomotion and traversal clips driven by Motion Matching, compatible with all UE Mannequins and MetaHumans.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• GASP ALS plugin. Game Animation Sample with ALS locomotion layering.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• Genesis 9 Starter Essentials (Daz Studio) asset-source. Free rigged Genesis 9 base figure with character presets, clothing, hair and poses, exportable via Daz bridges.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• GetRigs Mixed marketplace. 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.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Glaxnimate software. KDE open-source vector animation app with Lottie and SVG export.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Godot 4 software. MIT-licensed 2D/3D engine. GDScript, C#, C++.
  in Software Reference → Game Engines: Free & Open Source
• Google Earth Studio software. Browser animation tool over Google Earth imagery.
  in Software Reference → Scientific & Medical Visualization Software
• GraphicsGale software. Pixel art and sprite animation tool (free).
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• GreaseWriter plugin. Auto-animates grease pencil strokes to emulate hand-drawn text.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• gsap Free tier reference. Animation library for CSS and JavaScript, framework agnostic and usable with three.js, backed by plugins like ScrollTrigger and Flip.
  in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory
• HEAT Free tier service. Online library of 1,000+ root-motion mocap clips with on-the-fly retargeting and plugins for Blender, Daz Studio, Unity, and UE5.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Hippydrome reference. Richard Williams walk cycle and timing chart reference.
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles
• Houdini Paid software. Procedural node-based DCC for VFX, simulation, and FX.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• HumanAct12 Free, non-commercial asset-source. Action-to-Motion project dataset of 1,191 Kinect-captured clips in 12 action categories with fine sub-labels, as SMPL poses.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• HumanML3D Free, non-commercial asset-source. Text-motion dataset of 14,616 motions from AMASS and HumanAct12 paired with 44,970 English descriptions, 28.6 hours.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• HY-Motion 1.0 (Tencent) software. Open model that generates 3D human motion from text prompts.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• InterHuman (InterGen) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Two-person interaction mocap dataset of 7,779 motions and 6.56 hours with text descriptions, from the InterGen project.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Island Slide Puzzle (Third Place - Animation/Design) inspiration. Flutter Puzzle Hack third place for animation and design: a slide puzzle whose tiles form an animated island scene.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Inspiration & Showcase
• iTween Expansion plugin. Expansion of Bob Berkebile's iTween tweening plugin for Unity.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Joe Daniels Rigs Free tier asset-source. Joe Daniels' Maya practice rigs: free flour sack and juicebox for weight drills plus paid character rigs.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Josh Toonen channel. Unreal Engine cinematics: animated decals, cinematic environments, faster filmmaking.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• KawaiiPhysics plugin. Simple fake secondary-motion physics for Unreal Engine 4.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• Keeper of the Lighthouse (3ds Max) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free stylized old sailor character for 3ds Max rigged from scratch with CAT, ready to animate.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Kevin Iglesias Free tier asset-source. Humanoid game animation packs (Basic Motions, Melee, Archer, Spellcasting, Crafting, Soldier) with free versions of most packs and Blender source files.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Kiel Figgins Rigs Free tier asset-source. Kiel Figgins' Maya rig store: 50+ paid game-ready rigs via TurboSquid plus about 12 free rigs (TMNT, Deadpool, Xenomorph) and MEL tools.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Kiko tool. DCC-agnostic animation-curve interchange. Transfers curves between Maya and Nuke.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Miscellaneous 3D Tools & Utilities
• KIT Motion-Language Dataset Free, non-commercial asset-source. KIT text-annotated mocap set of 3,911 motions with 6,278 natural-language descriptions, drawn from KIT and CMU databases.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Krikey AI Free tier software. Browser app that makes 3D character animation from text or video and exports MP4 or FBX.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Kubold Paid asset-source. Mocap animset vendor: Movement, Sword, Longsword, Spear and Halberd, Pistol, and FPP Melee sets built from real fencing and combat capture.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• LAFAN1 (Ubisoft La Forge) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Ubisoft La Forge BVH mocap set of 77 sequences from 5 subjects, about 4.6 hours of locomotion, fights, dance, and obstacles.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• LightWave 3D Paid software. Veteran modeling, animation, and rendering DCC with a long film/broadcast legacy.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• Lincoln Margison channel. Procedural animation tutorials. Step by step walkthroughs for game dev rigging and motion.
  in Game Development → Game Dev: YouTube Channels
• Live2D with Unity plugin. Imports Live2D models and reads mtn motion files in Unity.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Long Winter Studios Paid asset-source. Membership library of 30+ Maya rigs on one unified control system with blendshape faces and bendy limbs, plus BLINK manager plugin.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Lord Luigi Rigs Free tier asset-source. Freelance rigger Lord Luigi's Maya rigs and prop-rigging tutorials, incl. Baby rig and Priestess rig.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Luchador & Chicken (Houdini) asset-source. Two annotated APEX character rigs for Houdini by Od Studios covering autorig components and procedural skinning.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• LWF reference. Lightweight SWF. LWF is an animation engine which can play animation data converted from FLASH contents in HTML5, Unity, Cocos2d-x, iOS UIKit.
  in Game Development → Game Design & Theory
• Lyra Starter Game asset-source. Epic UE5 sample shooter with 300+ Mannequin animations (locomotion and actions) reusable via retargeting.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• M-Rigs (Ramon Arango) Paid asset-source. Paid stylized Maya rigs by Ramon Arango with painterly 2D-look facial animation, Mazu and Mukuru, sold singly or as bundle.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Manim Community tool. Python library for mathematical animations, a community fork of 3Blue1Brown's Manim.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities
• MANN Dog Motion Capture (AI4Animation) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Edinburgh quadruped mocap of a dog walking, trotting, sitting, and jumping, from the Mode-Adaptive Neural Networks paper.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Mannequins Asset Pack (Unreal) asset-source. Manny and Quinn UE5 mannequins with Control Rigs for keyframing in Sequencer, sharing the MetaHuman skeleton.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Matt Taylor Motion (Emty01) channel. Recursive subdivision animation.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → YouTube Channels: Houdini
• Maya Paid software. Film-industry animation and VFX DCC.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• MegaBuBu Rigs Free tier asset-source. Anime-style Maya rigs by MegaBuBu with cloth and skirt rigs and toon viewport shader: free Reimu, paid Sanae and Sakuya.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Mery Project Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free stylized female Maya rig with detailed facial controls, for practice and demo reel use only.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Mesh2Motion tool. FREE & open-source web application to animate your 3D models. Supports humanoid, four-legged, and bird creatures.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• MetaHuman Cinema Pack Paid asset-source. 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.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• MetaHuman Creator (Unreal) asset-source. Epic's free realistic human generator inside UE 5.6+, outputs fully rigged body and face characters, exportable to Maya.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• mGear plugin. Open-source modular rigging and animation framework for Maya, with the ueGear Unreal bridge.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Mixamo asset-source. Rigged characters, auto-rigger, and free animation library (Adobe).
  in Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Specialized
• Mixamo Converter plugin. Blender Plugin that Converts Mixamo animations to work in Unreal Engine 4 with root motion.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• MMD for Unity plugin. MikuMikuDance model and motion importer for Unity.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• MoCap Central Free tier asset-source. Mocap animation packs (Core Motion 447 clips, Longsword, Village Life, Seated) delivered as UE5 MetaHuman and Unity Humanoid projects.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• MoCap Online Paid asset-source. 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.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Moho (Smith Micro) Paid software. 2D vector and bone-rigged animation.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Molecular Maya (mMaya) Paid plugin. Digizyme's Maya plugin for molecular modeling and animation.
  in Software Reference → Scientific & Medical Visualization Software
• Molecular Nodes plugin. Brady Johnston's Blender add-on for molecular visualization. Geometry-nodes driven; current go-to for Blender molecular work.
  in Software Reference → Scientific & Medical Visualization Software
• Moom Rig asset-source. Free cartoon Maya rig by Ramtin Ahmadi with IK/FK arms and feet, stretchy spine and neck, facial control panel.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Morphs Player plugin. Play morph targets directly on a skeletal mesh animation track.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• Motion Canvas tool. TypeScript library and editor for code-driven explainer animations synced to audio.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities
• Motion-X Free, non-commercial asset-source. IDEA Research whole-body SMPL-X motion dataset with face and hands, 81.1K clips and 15.6M frames, with text labels.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• MotionBuilder Paid software. Autodesk real-time character animation and mocap editing platform.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• Motorica Dance Dataset Free, non-commercial asset-source. KTH and Motorica optical mocap of 6 hours of dance in 8 styles, retargeted to one BVH skeleton, with music.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Move AI Paid software. Highest-accuracy AI mocap with multi-camera triangulation.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Movement Animset Pro Paid asset-source. Kubold mocap pack of 180+ unarmed third-person clips (walk, run, crouch, jump, fist fight, interactions) in in-place and root-motion versions.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Mush3D Free tier software. GPU tool for sculpting and simulating corrective fixes on animated mesh caches.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier
• New Frame Plus channel. Animation analysis in games (walk cycles, weight, timing).
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles
• Nice Moves Resources reference. Curated animation resources, learning material, and community pointers.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• NUS Motion Capture Database Free, non-commercial asset-source. National University of Singapore Vicon mocap clips of locomotion, dance, and martial arts, hosted by SFU, in BVH and C3D.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Olof Storm channel. YouTube channel of Olof Storm with videos about animation and art.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Onion Skin Renderer tool. Onion Skin Renderer for Maya.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• OpenToonz software. Studio Ghibli's animation engine, open-sourced.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Optimization techniques tutorial. Techniques to optimize Rive animations in React apps.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Origami Studio software. Free interaction design and prototyping tool by Meta. Patch-based logic, Figma import.
  in Software Reference → Design Software
• ossos tool. A complete character skinning & animation library for the web.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• P2Design Free Rigs (Blender) asset-source. Pierrick Picaut's free Blender rigs: Trident, Mannequin, Crimson Ronin, P2DBOT, Trex, Mech and a 2D camera rig.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Paragon Animations Retargeted to Manny asset-source. Community pack of 5,300 humanoid animations from Epic's free Paragon heroes, retargeted to the UE5 Manny skeleton.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Paragon Characters (Unreal) asset-source. Epic's free Paragon hero characters on Fab: rigged game characters with skins and animation sets.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Pencil2D software. Free lightweight 2D animation.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Periodic Table of Motion reference. Reference chart of motion design principles and techniques.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities
• Perry Leijten Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Maya creature rigs Skaarj and Blurgha plus character rigs and skinning tools by rigger Perry Leijten.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Physics-Based Animation reference. Learning resources and papers on physics-based animation.
  in Lighting, Rendering & Shaders → Rendering & Shader Theory
• PiskelApp tool. Free Online Pixel Art and Animated Sprite Tool.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• PixiEditor software. Universal 2D graphics editor. Procedural graphics w/ node graph, image editing, vectors, pixel art, animations.
  in Software Reference → Design Software
• Plant Blog reference. NextJS blog template with Rive to show animated blog thumbnails and syncing scroll to Rive animations deployed on Vercel. Code.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Pontypants channel. YouTube channel of Pontypants documenting game development, including animation for games.
  in Game Development → Game Dev: YouTube Channels
• Procreate Paid software. IPad painting app. Procreate Dreams for animation.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• ProRigs Paid asset-source. Subscription library of 35+ feature-film-style Maya characters and 20+ props from DreamWorks, Disney and Pixar riggers, Arnold-ready.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• PSAvatar: A Point-based Shape Model for Real-Time Head Avatar Animation with 3D Gaussian Splatting paper. Zhao et al., arXiv 2024. PSAvatar animates real-time head avatars with a point-based model and 3D Gaussians.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers
• Puppeteer (ByteDance Seed) software. Open model that rigs, skins and animates a 3D model automatically.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Puppeteer Lounge Rigs Paid asset-source. Indian animation academy selling rigged Maya puppets ($5 to $200) incl. realistic quadruped tiger, ape and orc.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• QuickMagic Free tier software. Web service that captures body, hand and face motion from one video and exports FBX or BVH.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Ragdoll Dynamics Paid plugin. Physics-based posing and animation: pose characters by dragging a simulated ragdoll. Maya, Blender, standalone.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Rain Rig (Blender) asset-source. Free stylized female Blender rig from Blender Studio with IK/FK snapping, face controls and pose library, no add-ons needed.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• RamsterZ Animations Free tier asset-source. 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).
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Ray (CGTarian) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Maya character built with DreamWorks rig specialists, full facial rig for acting and dialogue, no plugins or picker needed.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• React Spring tool. Library for physically accurate animations, works with react-three-fiber.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Tools & Utilities
• Reallusion iClone Paid software. Real-time character animation and cinematic creation; pairs with Character Creator.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• RealMotion Pro Paid plugin. Blender add-on with a 450+ clip built-in library and 1,700+ mocap animations, retargeting to Auto-Rig Pro, Rigify, Mixamo, and Daz rigs.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Retro Slide Puzzle (Winner - Animation/Design) inspiration. Flutter Puzzle Hack winner for animation and design: a retro-styled sliding tile puzzle built with Flutter and Rive.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Inspiration & Showcase
• Rex Rig (Blender) asset-source. Sprite Fright teen character rig for Blender with body and facial controls from the production.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Rich Lord's Tools plugin. Tools from ex-Valve animator.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Plugins & Tools
• RigModels Free tier asset-source. Free 3D model search engine with rigged and static models in OBJ, FBX, STL, DAE and GLB.
  in Assets & Libraries → Model Libraries: Free & General
• RigsArena (3ds Max) asset-source. Blog index of 400+ free 3ds Max character, animal and prop rigs sorted by category.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Rive Free tier software. Interactive animation for apps and web.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Rive Flutter Animation tutorial. Best approach for animation in 2023.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Riveflow tutorial. Learn how to create next-level interactive animations for Webflow websites with Rive.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Robot Kyle (Unity) asset-source. Free Unity robot character with humanoid rig, a common test model for Mecanim retargeting.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Rokoko Motion Library Free tier marketplace. Mocap marketplace inside Rokoko Studio with thousands of clips from studios and stunt performers, retargetable to Mixamo, UE, and HumanIK rigs as FBX.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Roly HL Free Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Maya rigs by Roly HL for practice and challenges: Woody, Buzz, Andy's Room set, DeLorean, station wagon.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Rubberhose 2 Paid plugin. Shape-layer-based IK limb rigging system for fast character animation with one-click rig creation.
  in Motion Graphics & Video → Motion Graphics: Inspiration
• Rusty Animator Free Maya Rigs Mixed asset-source. Curated guide to free Maya rigs grouped by skill: basics, body mechanics, acting, creatures, props and vehicles.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Sakuga Booru reference. Animation clip archive (non-www mirror).
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → General Inspiration
• School of Motion (YouTube) channel. School of Motion YouTube channel with motion design tutorials and talks.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Secondary Motion in H19 tutorial. Paul Esteves. Secondary motion workflows.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Rigging & Animation (KineFX)
• SFU Motion Capture Database Free, non-commercial asset-source. Simon Fraser University mocap clips of dance, martial arts, and locomotion, in BVH, C3D, and ASF/AMC with preview videos.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Shalabology Free Rigs (3ds Max) asset-source. Free 3ds Max rigs by Shalabology: biped, Cute Box, horse quadruped and Shiko character rigs.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Shalaby Rigs Free tier asset-source. Ahmed Shalaby's Maya rigs: free educational X-Rig, paid Dude 2.0 with three variations, Box-Men body rigs.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Simple Character Rig (Blender) asset-source. Joey Carlino's lightweight Blender character rig with IK/FK limbs, heel and toe foot pivots and optional face rig.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Sir Owl Rig (Toon Boom Harmony) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Toon Boom Harmony cut-out owl rig for animation practice and demo reels.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Sir Wade Animation community. Sir Wade Neistadt's animation Discord (~11K). Professional and aspiring animators and CG artists since 2019.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• Sliding Puzzle 3D (Honorable Mention) inspiration. Flutter Puzzle Hack honorable mention: an isometric pseudo-3D sliding puzzle built with Flutter and Rive.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Inspiration & Showcase
• Snow Rig (Blender) asset-source. Free stylized male Blender rig from Blender Studio built on the Sprite Fright rig system, with IK/FK, layered face controls and pose library.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Space Girl Rigging tutorial. Older SideFX tutorial series on rigging a character in Houdini.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Houdini: Rigging & Animation (KineFX)
• Spine (Esoteric Software) Paid software. 2D skeletal animation w/ mesh deformation, IK, skins/attachments. Runtimes for Unity/Unreal/Godot/web. Used on Cult of the Lamb, Return to Monkey Island, Tinykin.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Spine Runtimes plugin. Spine 2D animation runtimes, including a Unity runtime.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Spineboy Example (Spine) asset-source. Official Spine 2D example project showing meshes, IK, transform constraints and clipping on a rigged character.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Spline Free tier software. Browser-based 3D design with real-time collaboration. Exports to web, video, code. AI features for prompt-to-3D.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Free Tier
• Sprite Rig (Blender) asset-source. Sprite Fright creature rig for Blender with facial poses and animation loops from the film.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• SpriteLib asset-source. Collection of static and animated graphic objects (also commonly known as sprites).
  in Game Development → Game Dev Tools: Sprite & VFX
• Spriter Pro Paid software. Modern tool for sprite animation (2D bone rigging).
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Squiggly Rigs Free tier asset-source. Lightweight cartoon Maya rigs with bendy limbs, smear controls and full face: Thep mummy, Grey Matter Gary, Lee.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• Storm Rig (Blender) Paid asset-source. Blender Studio production rig for Blender 5 with body, hand and face pose libraries for fast blocking.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Story Set asset-source. Customizable illustrations to edit and animate, free.
  in Assets & Libraries → Stock Images & References
• Studio Library Free tier plugin. Maya pose and animation library for saving, mirroring and blending poses.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• SwiftUI Animated Login Screen using Rive channel. Teddy Bear Animation, create an animated and interactive Login screen.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Synfig Studio software. Free open-source 2D vector animation.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Tahoma2D software. 2D and stop-motion animation (OpenToonz fork w/ modernized UI and features).
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• TED Gesture Dataset Free, non-commercial asset-source. ETRI pipeline and prebuilt dataset of 3D upper-body gesture poses extracted from 1,766 TED talk videos with transcripts.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets
• Template-Chan (Toon Boom Harmony) asset-source. Toon Boom Harmony cut-out character rig template for practice or reskinning into your own character.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Text-To-4D Dynamic Scene Generation paper. Singer et al., ICML 2023. MAV3D generates dynamic 3D scenes from text with a 4D NeRF and text-to-video diffusion.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → Research Papers
• TextCounter plugin. Text-animation addon for counters and GUI simulations in Blender.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• The 12 Principles (Illustrated) reference. GIF breakdowns of each principle.
  in Art, Design & Visual Storytelling → Animation Principles
• The Dillcord (Dillon Goo) community. 2D animation Discord (~9K) by Dillon Goo. Fight scene fan animations, self-taught animator hub.
  in Learning, Community & Industry → 3D Communities & Forums
• The Power of Rive: A New Standard for Interactive Animations reference. "We've been playing around with this awesome interactive animation tool called Rive, and it's blown us away!".
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• The Principles of Animation: Interactive Edition reference. Interactive web explainer of the 12 principles of animation.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Time Flow Shiki plugin. Timeline GUI skeleton for the Unity editor.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Toniko Pantoja channel. Animation industry and technique.
  in Animation & Rigging → Animation: Channels & Tutorials
• Toon Boom Harmony Paid software. Professional 2D animation (studio standard).
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Toon Rig (Cinema 4D) Paid asset-source. Built-in Cinema 4D Character Object preset for cartoon rigs with stretch, squash and bendy limbs.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Tre Vital Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Free Maya creature rigs by Tre Vital: Wraith, Anthro Tiger, Argonian, Hekaton, Dragon, with IK tails.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• trigger tool. Operational code-driven rigging tool for Autodesk Maya.
  in Tools, Pipeline & Utilities → Rigging & Animation Tools
• Truebones iClone Zoo asset-source. Free animal pack: 75+ animated animals (insects, reptiles, birds, dinosaurs) with motions in iAvatar and iMotion format for iClone.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Truebones Studios Free tier asset-source. Gumroad store for Truebones mocap libraries in FBX and BVH, incl. free UE complete mocap library and animal Zoo packs.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Truong CG Artist Rigs Free, non-commercial asset-source. Truong's Gumroad of mostly free Maya creature and character rigs: dragons, lizards, Hydralisk, elephant, Boxy walker.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Maya
• TVPaint Animation Paid software. Raster frame-by-frame 2D animation software modeled on paper animation.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• Typewriter plugin. Typewriter text animation for font objects in Blender.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• UE5 Mannequin Blender Rig (Blender) asset-source. Free Blender control rig for the UE5 Manny skeleton with root motion, FK/IK snapping and finger controls.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• UE5-Blender-Rig (Blender) asset-source. Open Blender rig for UE5 Manny and Quinn skeletons with soft IK, IK/FK switch UI, finger rig and FBX export guide.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Unicorn Studio Free tier software. Browser-based interactive scene and motion design for the web. No-code, exports to embed.
  in Software Reference → Design Software
• Unity Mecanim VR IK vs Final IK channel. Channel comparing VR IK using native Unity Mecanim IK versus Final IK.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Unity Starter Assets asset-source. Unity first- and third-person controllers with a rigged humanoid armature and locomotion animations, built on Cinemachine and Input System.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap & Animation Libraries
• Unity Timeline Conditions plugin. Experimental port of Animator conditions to Timeline events.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Unity Timelord Blender plugin. Demo of custom blending for Unity Timelines.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Unity-Chan (Unity) asset-source. Unity Technologies Japan's free anime character with humanoid rig, animations, facial blendshapes and voices.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• Universal Animation Library asset-source. 120+ animations ready to retarget in any engine.
  in Assets & Libraries → Game Assets
• Unreal Docs: Motion Design reference. Docs for Motion Design, Unreal's broadcast and motion-graphics toolset.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• Unreal Engine 5 Free tier software. AAA engine from Epic. Free until $1M revenue, then royalty.
  in Software Reference → Game Engines: Commercial Free Tiers
• Unreal MetaHuman Animator software. iPhone/HMC-driven facial performance capture targeting MetaHuman characters. Free with Unreal.
  in Software Reference → 3D Software: Paid
• UnrealLive2D plugin. Render Live2D models in Unreal Engine 4.
  in Game Development → Unreal Engine: Resources
• USAnimation / Toonz (legacy) software. Softimage → Digital Video → Dwango. Open-sourced as OpenToonz 2016. Ghibli's pipeline.
  in Software Reference → Software Reference: Legacy & Defunct
• Uthana Paid software. AI platform that generates character motion from text or video, retargets it and auto-rigs, with Blender and Maya plugins.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Viggle AI Free tier software. Character animation from video or image input.
  in Software Reference → AI Motion Capture Software
• Vincent Rig (Blender) Paid asset-source. Classic Blender Institute cartoon character rig with squash and stretch body and expressive face controls.
  in Animation & Rigging → Character Rigs: Other Apps
• VoxBlend plugin. Blend shape controller plugin for Unity.
  in Game Development → Unity Engine: Resources
• Walking animation cycle in games tutorial. Tutorial series on 2D walk-cycle animation for games.
  in Game Development → Game Dev Tools: Sprite & VFX
• Wonder Studio (Autodesk Flow Studio) Free tier tool. AI character replacement with auto roto, body tracking, and re-lighting from a single video. Now part of Autodesk Flow Studio.
  in AI & Machine Learning for CG → AI-Assisted CG Tools
• Wordpress Addon Free tier plugin. Greenshift animation addon allows you to use and configure Rive files directly in the WordPress editor.
  in Software Reference → 2D & Animation Software
• WritingAnimation plugin. Generates writing animation for selected Bezier curves in Blender.
  in Modeling, Sculpting & Texturing → Blender: Plugins & Addons
• ZEGGS Dataset (Ubisoft ZeroEGGS) Free, non-commercial asset-source. Ubisoft La Forge speech gesture set of 67 monologue takes in 19 styles, BVH plus WAV, with FBX characters.
  in Animation & Rigging → Mocap Datasets