3D Animation Generator Tools

Animaze by Holotech Studios is an avatar app that animates 2D and 3D avatars in real time from your webcam or iPhone for livestreaming, VTubing and video calls, with Live2D, VRM and Ready Player Me support and a virtual camera.

Warudo by HakuyaLabs is 3D VTubing software that animates VRM avatars with built-in face and hand tracking and support for iPhone, Leap Motion, Rokoko, Xsens and studio mocap, plus a blueprint system and C# plugins.

OptiTrack builds high-precision optical motion capture systems, including PrimeX and Slim cameras and Motive software, delivering sub-millimeter accuracy for animation, virtual production, VR, robotics and movement science.

QuickMagic is an AI motion capture tool that converts ordinary video or text prompts into editable 3D motion with body, hand and facial tracking, multi-person capture and exports to Blender, Unreal, Unity, Maya, iClone and more.

iPi Motion Capture by iPi Soft is scalable markerless mocap software that tracks 3D human motion using 1 to 4 depth sensors or 3 to 16 RGB cameras, producing 3D animation or biomechanical analysis without suits or markers.

Xsens provides professional inertial motion capture systems, including the Xsens Link and Awinda sensor suits and Xsens Animate software, delivering studio-quality mocap anywhere with integrations for Unreal Engine and Unity.

Perception Neuron by Noitom offers plug-and-play inertial and hybrid motion capture systems, including PN 3, PN Studio with finger tracking and PN Link, trusted by 20,000+ users in VFX, games, robotics and biomechanics.

Marvelous Designer is Academy Award-winning software for designing and simulating realistic 3D clothing from sewing patterns, used across games, animation and VFX, with cloth animation and export to FBX, Alembic, glTF and VRM.

Bforartists is a free, open source 3D creation suite forked from Blender, with a reworked, artist-friendly interface, colored icons and configurable toolbars, while staying fully compatible with Blender files and add-ons.

Element 3D by Video Copilot is a GPU-accelerated After Effects plugin for importing, animating and rendering 3D objects and object-based particles directly inside After Effects for motion graphics and VFX.

ActorCore by Reallusion is an online library of professional mocap animations and rigged 3D people, with the free AccuRIG auto-rigger to rig your own characters and export them to Unreal, Unity, Blender and more.

Akeytsu by Nukeygara is a 3D rigging and keyframe animation suite designed by animators, with a light rig system, Spinner widget, Cycle Maker and Stacker tools, and an FBX workflow compatible with Unity and Unreal.

NVIDIA Omniverse is a collection of OpenUSD-based libraries and microservices for building simulation-ready 3D environments, with RTX rendering and physics simulation for digital twins, robotics and physical AI.

Daz 3D offers Daz Studio, free 3D software for posing, animating and rendering fully rigged Genesis 9 characters, plus a huge marketplace of 3D models and export bridges to Blender, Maya, Unreal, Unity and more.

Character Creator by Reallusion is 3D character design software for generating, customizing and auto-rigging realistic or stylized characters, with HD morphs, SkinGen, Headshot AI and one-click export to Unreal, Unity, Blender and Maya.

LightWave 3D is a complete 3D creation suite for modeling, animation, visual effects, simulation and rendering, used by independent artists and production teams for VFX, motion graphics, visualization and game assets.

Poser is 3D rendering and animation software for posing and animating human figures, with a 5GB+ built-in content library, morphs, hair and clothing, HDRI lighting and the SuperFly renderer.

Unreal Engine by Epic Games is a real-time 3D creation tool for games, film, animation and virtual production, with Control Rig, Sequencer, MetaHuman integration and photoreal rendering, free to start with royalties only above $1M.