Kinetix
FreemiumTurn any video into a 3D character animation, and let players create custom emotes inside your game with an embeddable SDK.
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
Integrations
How to Use Kinetix
✅ 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
- ✓Test the animation generator and evaluate output quality
- ✓Usage based charge each time a player generates an emote in-game
- ✓Emote SDK integration
- ✓retargeting
- ✓streaming and moderation platform
- ✓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