Blender
3ds MaxKeyframes. Set the poses that must happen.
Key the poses that matter on your character. The take passes through each one exactly as you keyed it, and the model makes the motion between them.
Animatica Choreographer · Free
Generate motion on your own character.
Choreographer is a free plugin that generates character animation. Describe the action, key the poses that must happen, or put down waypoints for where it goes, and it makes a new take on your character as keyframes you can edit.
Choreographer · BlenderReal take, the wait cut
How it works
Key the poses you need. It generates the rest.
You decide what has to happen and where. The model generates the frames in between, and the keys you set stay exactly where you put them.
- 01Key the poses that must happen.
Set two or three key poses on your character, or none and describe the action.
- 02Generate the motion between them.
The model fills in every frame around your keys, at 30 fps, up to 10 seconds a prompt.
- 03Edit the take like your own.
It comes back as keyframes on your rig, to select, retime and delete like any animation.
Ways to direct it
Key poses, waypoints or a prompt.
Use one or combine them. They work the same in Blender, Motion Builder and 3ds Max.
Waypoints. Say where the character goes.
Add a waypoint at a frame and drag it across the floor to where the character should be by then. The model plans the walk between waypoints, with its own stride and speed.
Prompts. Describe the action in words.
Type what happens into the bar. Each block on the timeline takes its own prompt, so one take can sneak forward on tiptoe and then jump and cheer.
Also in Blender
Loop it. Paste it onto any rig.
A take can be a cycle that comes round on itself, ready for a game. And any take copies off one character and pastes onto another, whatever its skeleton.
Loops. Cycles that come round seamlessly.
Switch on Loop beside Generate and the take is made as a cycle: its last frame flows into its first. Play it in place for a game, or let a walk keep walking.
Copy and paste. Put a take on any character.
Copy Motion copies a take off one character. Select another on any skeleton, like the Mixamo rig here, and Paste Motion retargets the take to its bones and proportions.
Hosts
It runs in Blender, Motion Builder and 3ds Max.
One account and one monthly allowance cover every host. Each plugin writes keyframes the way that host stores them.
BlenderAn add-on with its own bar in the viewport. With Marionette installed too, you edit its takes by hand.
Motion BuilderA native plugin that plots keyframes onto your characterized skeleton.
3ds MaxPrompts placed on a timeline, keyed onto your rig.
Animatica Marionette · October 21
Then edit the take by hand.
In Blender, Marionette adds posing and editing by hand to Choreographer's bar: drag a hand and the body follows, pull the motion trail, pose frames in the zoetrope, lock a foot in place. It runs offline and costs $59 once, with 50% off on Product Hunt in launch week.
Meet MarionetteWhere the model runs
On Animatica Cloud or on your own GPU.
Animatica Cloud needs no GPU and runs the full pipeline. Or run the open-source backbone yourself, Apache-2.0, and generate on your own machine.
| Capability | Animatica Cloud | Your own GPU | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|
| In the plugins, either way | |||
| Generate motion as editable keyframes | Included | Included | Included |
| Key poses, waypoints and hand or foot pins | Included | Included | Included |
| Works with Marionette for posing and editing | Included | Included | Included |
| What Animatica Cloud adds | |||
| No GPU or local setup | Included | Not included | Included |
| Retarget to custom characters | Included | Not included | Included |
| Control rigs | Included | Not included | Included |
| Text-to-pose | Included | Not included | Included |
| Variations of a take | Included | Not included | Included |
| Seamless loops for games | Included | Not included | Included |
| What Teams adds | |||
| Custom models tuned on your motion | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Shared generation pool across seats | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Marionette for every seat | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Only on your own GPU | |||
| Runs entirely on your hardware | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Open-source model server (Apache-2.0) | Not included | Included | Not included |
| Start free | Run the backbone | Talk to us | |
Pricing
What generations cost.
The plugin is free. What you pay for, if anything, is generations on Animatica Cloud.
Free
To try it on your own rig
$0
No card required
10 generations a month
Every account gets them, every month, in every plugin.
- Retargeting, control rigs and text-to-pose
- Variations and loops
- No GPU or local setup
Pay as you go
For the shot that needs more
$5per pack
One-time. Nothing renews.
50 generations a pack
10¢ each, used after your free 10. Packs never expire, so what you don't use waits for next month.
- Everything in Free
- Packs never expire
- No subscription
Pro
Best value
For regular production
$16.67/ month
Billed $200 a year. Two months free.
500 generations a month
4¢ each, less than half the pack price. Past 500, top up with packs.
- Everything in Free
- Shorter generation times
- Early access to new models
- Support from our team
- No card for Free
- Packs never expire
- Cancel Pro anytime
- You own the motion, commercial use on every plan
Teams & Enterprise
Your data stays out of training, in writing.
No account's motion inputs are used to train our models. On Teams and Enterprise that promise is also in your contract, so it holds for unreleased projects too.
$40/ seat / month
Talk to usEnterprise is custom.
- Custom models on request
A model tuned on your studio's own motion and rigs, so generations come out in your house style. Only your studio can use it.
- No training, by contract
Every plan gets this promise. Teams also gets it in the contract.
- Marionette for every seat
Posing and editing by hand for the whole team, kept up to date while you subscribe.
- Shared generation pool
One allowance for the whole studio, sized to your production.
- Dedicated support
One contact for your studio, and a direct line to the engineers.
Before you start
Questions.
- Is Choreographer free?
- Yes, in every host. Every account also gets 10 generations a month on Animatica Cloud. More come in packs of 50 for $5, which never expire, or with Pro: 500 a month for $20.
- Do I need a GPU?
- No. Animatica Cloud runs the model on our GPUs. If you have one, you can run the open-source backbone (Apache-2.0) yourself and generate on your own machine instead.
- Can I use the motion in commercial work?
- Yes. We claim no ownership of the motion you generate, and you may use it in commercial work on any plan. We do not train models on your inputs without your separate agreement.
- Which model does it run?
- NVIDIA's Kimodo, a motion model that takes text, key poses and paths and returns 30 fps motion.