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Epic Games' free mocap plugin extracts full-body and finger motion from phone or camera footage to transfer to MetaHuman characters.

Thursday, June 18th, 2026

Autodesk buys core tech and IP of the AI mocap pioneer. The Radical website will shut down on 6 July, so download your data before then.

Thursday, April 9th, 2026

Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Monday, March 10th, 2025

Much-anticipated facial mocap plugin for Blender gets its official release. Now supports animation retargeting to Rigify rigs.

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

Try this browser-based tool for generating animated 3D avatars from video footage, photos or real-world measurements. Free in beta.

Thursday, August 29th, 2024

Intuitive add-on can generate an animated 3D reconstruction of an actor's head from video footage, for animation. VFX or motion graphics.

Thursday, August 22nd, 2024

Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts Mixamo-compatible hand motion from live video. Available with free subscriptions.

Friday, August 9th, 2024

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts facial and full-body animation from the same video. Available with free subscriptions.

Friday, December 22nd, 2023

Much-anticipated new iOS app lets you use Move AI's markerless mocap technology on video captured on a single iPhone.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

New AI-based service extracts multi-actor motion data from video in real time, and streams it to Blender, Maya, Unity or UE5.

Friday, September 1st, 2023

Promising new AI-based mocap service now available via monthly as well as annual subscriptions.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2023

Promising AI-based markerless mocap system now works on video from any device, not just iPhones.

Monday, March 20th, 2023