What is Kinetix?

Kinetix converts video into 3D character animation using single-camera markerless motion capture, so a phone clip becomes a usable avatar animation without a mocap suit, a volume or a studio booking. Its SDK extends that to players themselves, letting them generate custom emotes inside a game from their own footage, with retargeting onto your character rigs handled automatically.

Two things to weigh. User-generated animation is a genuine engagement mechanic for social games and virtual worlds, but it also means moderation work, since anything players can generate they will eventually generate badly. And single-camera capture trades accuracy for accessibility: output is convincing for stylised characters and expressive emotes, and less reliable for precise combat or sports animation where a studio pipeline still wins. Independent coverage is limited, so trial it on your own rigs.

Key Features

Video To 3D AnimationMarkerless Motion CaptureSingle Camera CaptureText To AnimationUser-Generated Emote SDKMesh Aware RetargetingFoot Sliding CorrectionGround Penetration FixKinanim Streaming FormatNetwork Based CachingCharacter Motion ControlAutomatic RiggingContent Moderation PlatformAvatar System AgnosticUnity SDKUnreal Engine SDKFBX And glTF ExportNo-Code API

Integrations

Development

UnityUnreal EngineRoblox

Design

BlenderReady Player Me

Webhooks & API

REST API

How to Use Kinetix

1Sign up and test the browser based animation generator

2Upload a video clip or write a text description of the movement

3Let the AI extract motion and retarget it onto your avatar rig

4Review and correct foot sliding or ground contact issues

5Export as FBX or glTF, or embed the Emote SDK into your game

6Configure moderation rules and monetisation for player generated emotes

Who is Kinetix for?

✅ Best For

Avatar based games and virtual worlds that want players creating their own emotes rather than only buying studio made ones
Studios needing animation retargeted across many different avatar systems without rebuilding the rig each time
Multiplayer titles where many custom animations play at once and bandwidth per animation genuinely matters
Indie animators who want mocap quality motion from a phone camera instead of renting a capture volume
Live service teams looking for a new monetisation and engagement surface built on player created content

❌ Not For

Teams needing frame perfect hero animation for cinematics, where hand keyframed work still wins on precision
Studios that cannot support user generated content moderation overhead, even with automated screening in place
Developers wanting character models or environments, since Kinetix generates motion rather than geometry
Games without avatars or a visible character body, where emotes have nothing to play on
Projects needing complex multi character interaction animation, which single camera capture handles poorly

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Pricing

Is Kinetix free? Yes, there is a free plan.

Free Trial$0

✓Test the animation generator and evaluate output quality

Emote Generation€0.15 per emote

✓Usage based charge each time a player generates an emote in-game

Studio SDKCustom

✓Emote SDK integration
✓retargeting
✓streaming and moderation platform

EnterpriseCustom

✓Volume pricing
✓flexible monetisation models and dedicated support

Prompts to Try

A character does a celebratory backflip and lands in a pose

Someone waves hello then folds their arms

A slow exhausted walk after a long fight

A dance move that loops cleanly for eight seconds

A character crouches, picks something up and stands back

Use Cases

Tomas, a virtual world developer, embeds the Emote SDK and watches players generate thousands of custom emotes in the first week from phone videos.

Anjali, an indie animator, captures a fight sequence on her phone and retargets it onto a stylised quadruped without renting studio time.

Piotr, a technical artist, uses mesh aware retargeting to apply one motion library across four wildly different avatar proportions without fixing foot sliding by hand.

Mariam, a live ops manager, turns player generated emotes into a monetisation surface and adds a revenue line that did not exist the previous quarter.

Sung-min, a multiplayer engineer, adopts the Kinanim streaming format and stops seeing animation lag when twenty players emote simultaneously in a hub.