Xsens Animate
Bring your characters to life with unparalleled speed, fidelity, and creative control.
Xsens Animate
Unleash your creativity
Whether it’s gaming, film, animation, TV broadcasting, or live entertainment, MVN Animate will give you accurate motion capture every time, everywhere. Its advanced inertial technology gives you clean production-ready data, both inside and outside the studio.
Use Xsens motion capture in the studio, at the office, or on set.
Experience full magnetic immunity in all conditions.
Save time with clean, production-quality motion capture data.
Meet Xsens Animate
MVN Animate’s proprietary motion capture software can live-stream all data to your third-party 3D package, such as Unreal, Unity, Maya, or MotionBuilder. It can also export data in your preferred format.
Connect up to 4 systems for multi-actor capturing. Or combine with Xsens Metagloves by Manus to track finger movements. You can also make use of 3D position aiding systems like HTC Vive.
As the go-to software for professional motion capture, MVN Animate makes light work of calibration, real-time visualization, playback, and reprocessing, for efficient workflows and fast turnaround times.
A lot. Real-time 3D animation, data streaming, and reference video recording. The software has built-in timecode and remote-control plugins, handles data rates up to 158 Mb/min, and exports to formats such as ASCII (HTML), C3D, BVH, MVNX, FBX, and movie containers like AVI and M4V.
Xsens’ proprietary HD Reprocessing Engine gives you the best quality motion capture data available in the market. The processed data is instantly ready to be integrated into your animation pipeline.
Xsens Animate Export and Animate Pro offer HD reprocessing locally.
Software options
Our software has three options to cover different needs and budgets.
Ideal for live entertainment.
Bring your characters to life instantly with the highest quality live mocap data and seamless streaming to popular 3D platforms.
Ideal for game development with an offline pipeline.
Streamline your animation workflow with local export and optimized data for seamless integration with your 3D pipeline.
Currently available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Consider these questions when making the best choice for the subscription:
Live streaming is possible with MVN Animate Plus and Pro. Streaming a virtual optical marker set is only available in MVN Animate Pro.
Animate Live supports two live actors. With the Amnimate Export, you can capture and record one character at a time. Animate Pro allows you to record up to 4 characters at a time - or unlimited actors with on-body recording.
If you want to make use of 3D positional aiding with either HTC Vive or GPS, to get high-quality data with less clean-up, you’ll need MVN Animate Pro.
You cannot export files in MVN Record and MVN Animate Plus. Use Xsens MotionCloud subscription to export MVNX, FBX and BVH files. In MVN Animate Pro you can export locally to MVNX, FBX, BVH and C3D.
We offer plugins for the most commonly-used software suites, like Unreal Engine 5, Unity, Maya, MotionBuilder, and Houdini.
Integration with positional aiding hardware such as HTC Vive and GPS is only available in Xsens Animate Pro.
If you will be using the (Remote) On-Body Recording feature, then the answer is yes, you need the Xsens Animate Pro.
Integrations and plugins for entertainment
Learn more about how MVN Animate fits into the ecosystem of full-body motion capture solutions.
See the software and systems we can integrate with here:
Xsens Animate features
For live streaming and broadcast
For single actor capture and export
High Performance
Up to 2 Actors
1 actor at a time
Up to 4 Actors (Unlimited with On-Body-Recording)
FBX
BVH
FBX
BVH
C3D
MP4 (movie)
MVNX
Manus Gloves
StretchSense Gloves
Manus Gloves
StretchSense Gloves
Manus Gloves
StretchSense Gloves
Unity 3D
Unreal Engine
Maya
MotionBuilder
iClone
Houdini
Blender
Unity 3D
Unreal Engine
Maya
MotionBuilder
iClone
Houdini
Blender
Unreal Engine
Unity3D
Autodesk
+ various others
Unreal Engine
Unity3D
Autodesk
+ various others
- Single level
- Multilevel
- No level
- Single level
- Multilevel
- No level
Xsens motion capture systems deliver high-quality data in all conditions and environments.
Choose from smart bundles of hardware, software, and cloud processing options optimized for use in game development, VFX, cinematic productions, and live entertainment. We can assist you in tailoring the overall package to your individual needs.
Don’t hesitate to reach out, and we will help you configure your system, based on your needs and budget.
Education Program for animators
The Movella Education Program is designed to make our technology more accessible to programs, even when physical space or budgets are limited. These schools can now teach professional motion capture anywhere there’s a Wi-Fi connection, removing the need to turn rooms into makeshift studios.
Other Xsens motion capture products
From filmmakers to producers of live entertainment to game developers, the creative explosion that Movella's Xsens motion capture technology enables is known to artists across the globe.
The top-of-the-line MVN Link is a motion capture Lycra® suit. It's the flagship product in Xsens motion capture portfolio.
An affordable and easy-to-wear wireless Xsens motion capture system for real-time applications.
MVN Awinda Starter is the most affordable Xsens quality mocap hardware.
The Xsens Metaglove by Manus uses high-fidelity finger tracking using sub-millimeter accurate fingertip tracking sensors and can be seamlessly added to your Xsens mocap system.
MVN Analyze is specialized software adjusted for human motion analysis. It features a scalable biomechanical model, allows up to four hardware setups, and supports different calibration routines.
Xsens MotionCloud lets you manage multiple files without compromising local processing power by using the installed software. With MotionCloud subscriptions no additional software licenses required.
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