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Animation

18 sources · MoCap & character clips

Animation, 18 entries

ACCAD Open Motion Project

active · commercial OK · CC-BY-3.0

Ohio State ACCAD free mocap samples (walk/run/gestures/dance/breakdance, etc.) in BVH/C3D/FBX. Strong locomotion source when CMU isn’t enough — expect cleanup/retarget before engine use.

animationBVHC3DFBX verified 2026-08-24 (70d ago)
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Blender Studio Ellie Pose Library

active · commercial OK · CC-BY

Humanoid pose library from Blender Studio. The verified card on the demo-files listing is Ellie Pose Library v2.0.0 (Asset Bundles section, 24 MB, CC-BY). That listing mixes CC0 and CC-BY cards on one page; this entry…

animationBlend verified 2026-08-24 (70d ago)
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CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database

active · commercial OK · custom

Free human motion clips from Carnegie Mellon Graphics Lab. Site grant is "free for all uses" with no separate commercial carve-out and no attribution requirement on the pages loaded on 2026-08-24. Raw academic capture…

animationBVH verified 2026-10-23 (10d ago)
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Game Animation Sample (GASP)

needs-review · commercial OK · custom

Epic's free Unreal Engine sample project for a third-person animation system built on Motion Matching. It ships a capsule-driven locomotion set (walk, run, jump, fall), a simple traversal system (ledges, vaulting) and…

animationUnreal verified 2026-10-13 (20d ago)
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KayKit Character Animations

active · commercial OK · CC0

CC0 humanoid clips for KayKit characters (also retargetable onto other humanoids). Split by Rig_Medium and Rig_Large. Mixamo alternative for stylized kits. 161 animations across general, movement, melee, ranged, sim, …

animationFBXglTF verified 2026-08-24 (70d ago)
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Meta Animated Drawings

active · commercial OK · MIT archived

MIT code to animate children’s-style human figure drawings (FAIR paper implementation). Useful creative/2D pipeline — not a drop-in 3D mocap pack. Repo archived Sep 2025 (read-only); still usable as-is.

animationPython verified 2026-07-19 (106d ago)
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Mixamo

active · commercial OK · custom

Adobe’s free character + animation service (Adobe ID required; no CC subscription). Royalty-free for personal and commercial projects including video games. Proprietary Mixamo rigs — plan retargeting to your engine sk…

animationFBX verified 2026-07-19 (106d ago)
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MoCap Online (free samples)

active · commercial OK · custom

Professional optical mocap shop with $0 demo packs (sampler, sword combat, UE blueprint demo). Purchases include a Standard License (personal + commercial, royalty-free, up to 1M end users / $1M revenue; no AI trainin…

animationFBXBIPUnity verified 2026-07-19 (106d ago)
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MoveBox for Microsoft Rocketbox

active · commercial OK · MIT archived

MIT Unity toolbox to drive Microsoft Rocketbox avatars from Kinect V2 / Azure Kinect mocap (real-time + record/playback, basic lipsync). Archived Jun 2026 — still a free Kinect→Rocketbox path when you already own that…

animationUnity verified 2026-07-19 (106d ago)
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Quaternius Animated Guns Pack

active · commercial OK · CC0

Six animated low-poly guns (P90, revolver, pistol, shotgun, sniper rifle and similar) in FBX, OBJ and Blend. Handy for FPS or shooter prototypes needing fire and reload motion on the weapon itself. Weapon-only animati…

animationFBXOBJBlend verified 2026-10-04 (29d ago)
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Quaternius Animated Men Pack

active · commercial OK · CC0

Four rigged male low-poly human models with many animations, in FBX, OBJ and Blend. Small, quick to drop into a prototype or to harvest clips from. Models are textured and each has its own rig.

animationFBXOBJBlend verified 2026-10-04 (29d ago)
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Quaternius Animated Women Pack

active · commercial OK · CC0

Four rigged female low-poly human models with many animations, in FBX, OBJ and Blend. Small, quick to drop into a prototype or to harvest clips from. Models are textured and each has its own rig.

animationFBXOBJBlend verified 2026-10-04 (29d ago)
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Quaternius Background Posed Humans Pack

active · commercial OK · CC0

A set of 20 posed low-poly humans with 8 hairstyles in FBX, OBJ and Blend, for crowds and scene dressing. Static poses rather than motion clips, so it suits background filler more than gameplay characters.

animationFBXOBJBlend verified 2026-10-04 (29d ago)
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Quaternius Ultimate Animated Character Pack

active · commercial OK · CC0

50+ animated low-poly characters with many baked animations, shipped as FBX, OBJ and Blend. Useful as ready-to-play animated placeholders or as source clips to retarget. Animations are per-character, not on one shared…

animationFBXOBJBlend verified 2026-10-04 (29d ago)
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Quaternius Universal Animation Library

active · commercial OK · CC0

120+ humanoid clips on a universal retarget-friendly rig (locomotion, combat/gun, emotes, swim/crawl, etc.). CC0 — tested export sets for Godot, Unity, and Unreal. Strong Mixamo alternative for stylized pipelines.

animationFBXglTFGLB verified 2026-07-19 (106d ago)
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Quaternius Universal Animation Library 2

active · commercial OK · CC0

130+ follow-up humanoid clips (melee/armed combos, parkour, farming/fishing, zombie locomotion, etc.) on the same universal rig family as UAL 1. CC0; Godot/Unity/Unreal export sets.

animationFBXglTFGLB verified 2026-07-19 (106d ago)
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Rokoko Vision (Create)

active · commercial OK · custom

Markerless video to skeleton (Vision 3.0) inside Rokoko Create, plus text-to-motion. Free Starter: about 30s Vision processing per month, FBX export; paid plans raise quotas. Generated clips are stated commercial-OK.

animationFBXBVH verified 2026-08-24 (70d ago)
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Truebones ZOO

needs-review · commercial OK · custom

75+ animal FBX/BVH clips with textures. Only Wave 1 source whose terms name Games for creature mocap. Gumroad list price is $99+ with occasional promo free codes. Not CC0. Not featured.

animationFBXBVH verified 2026-10-04 (29d ago)
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