Sculpt with your pen and dynamic detail, rebuild it in clean quads, then unwrap, bake and paint. Give it bones and a face, and pose it by hand or perform it with your own face and body.
A character from the first ball of clay to the files you hand over. Each step is a node on the canvas, so the third pass is still there to change after the tenth.
Pull the big shapes out of a ball with clay, inflate and snake hook. Dynamic detail adds triangles only under the brush, and a sculpt level below holds the wrinkles. Lift a helmet or armor off as its own shell.
You hand overA sculpt for the review
A quad remesh lays even quads over the sculpt in one step. Then redraw the loops around the eyes and mouth by hand, where the face has to bend.
You hand overA light mesh that bends well
Mark seams or let them be found, unwrap, relax the stretch and pack. Bake normal, occlusion, curvature and height maps from the sculpt, and paint the cage out where horns and spikes stick past the low mesh.
You hand overMaps for the game material
Paint color, roughness and height in one stroke, in layers you can mask. Project a photo through a stencil, and bring painted UDIM tiles in as one texture.
You hand overTextures for the material
Fit a skeleton from the mesh, with templates for a person, a four-legged animal, a bird or a serpent, or place every joint yourself. Bind the skin through the body, paint the weights where the shoulder pinches, and mirror them.
You hand overA skinned character
A control on every joint worth grabbing, a shape for each, an IK and FK switch on the arms, feet that roll through heel, ball and toe, and spaces to switch between.
You hand overA rig an animator can pick up
Sculpt a blink, a smile or a jaw open as named shapes, with in-betweens and combination shapes. Drive them from your own face on a webcam, or bring a corrective in as the elbow bends, read straight off the pose.
You hand overShapes the engine reads too
Save poses to your library and apply them to any character that shares the control names, mirrored if you like. Layer one clip over another, hold the feet where they land so they stop sliding, and let a tail lag, jiggle or spring.
You hand overPoses and a motion test
Render a turntable, or a folder of frames from the terminal with no window. Send the character on as FBX, glTF, USD or VRM with its weights, shapes and takes, or to a printer as STL.
You hand overA turntable and the files
Pen pressure drives strength, size or both, through a curve you pick. Tilt leans the brush so it cuts along the pen, and the eraser end carves. A random turn on an alpha goes a long way for pores and skin.
Rough out the form, then add a sculpt level below for wrinkles; big changes on the lower level carry the detail along. Every stroke is its own undo step, and a sculpt cache saved beside the file opens big sculpts without replaying them.
$ kinematic cache check creature.kin
A plain webcam reads 52 face sliders, a full body and both hands, with the models running on your own machine. Retarget the motion onto your character by joint name and record takes with timecode, saved as BVH, FBX or GLB.
Phones do faces too: Live Link Face, iFacialMocap, Facemotion3D, VTube Studio and MeowFace stream straight in, and VMC brings a performer from a tracking app. A voice can move the lips, live from a microphone or from a sound file, with blinks on top.
Then take it live: Perform Mode fills a projector or a screen with the character, and VMC sends it to VTuber apps and engines as you move.
Bring in a Gaussian splat of a person, a creature or a figurine. Splat rig fit stands a skeleton inside it in the pose it was scanned in, with fingers, toes and face joints when you want them. Bind it, and Splat skin turns the splats with the bones, their shape and color included.
Pose it, play a clip on it, or drive it live from a webcam. When you need a surface, build a solid from the scan to export or to collide with.
One solver runs cloth, hair and soft bodies on your GPU. Drop a garment onto the body before frame one and stitch its seams, hang strands from curves, or let a stuffed toy squash and settle.
Bones get physics too: a tail lags, jiggles or springs, and a walking character can hand itself to a ragdoll at the moment of a hit. All of it sits in the same file as the rig, the lights and the camera.
A rigged character comes in and goes out in one step: mesh, weights, skeleton, shapes and takes. Your tablet, your phone and your webcam plug straight in.
The first tutorial sculpts and paints a little creature from a ball in about twelve minutes. The demos come with the app: open one from the Demos browser, press Play, then take it apart on the canvas.
First steps · 12 minSculpt a little horned creatureA round teal critter with horns, pointy ears, stubby feet, a snout and dark eyes, sculpted and painted from a plain ball.Read the tutorial →
Getting going · 10 minGive a 3D scan a golden glowA real carved lizard statue, captured as a 3D scan, bathed in warm late afternoon light.Read the tutorial →
Getting going · 8 minTurn a chrome ring into goldA polished gold ring floating in a real sky, seen from a little above, with the sky turned so the light falls the way you want.Read the tutorial →
First steps · 10 minModel a little hutA little terracotta hut with a pointed roof, a front door and a window, modeled from one box.Read the tutorial →
Getting going · 10 minRender a demo to pictures from the terminalA folder of numbered pictures, one for every frame of the Twisted Torus, rendered at 1080 by 1080 from one command, with no window.Read the tutorial →
Rig playbackA rigged fox comes in from a glTF file with its skin weights and its animation, and plays on its own clock.In the Demos browser
Motion arcsA running fox with the paths of its head, tail and paws drawn as loops, the arcs you check by eye.In the Demos browser
Weight paint showcaseA tube creature bound by proximity, then fixed with four weight-paint strokes. Three views side by side.In the Demos browser
Full body reachHands stay on two drifting balls while the spine and chest twist in to help and the feet stay planted.In the Demos browser
Live mocap retargetA webcam performance moved onto a character built in the graph. A built-in performer runs it with no camera.In the Demos browser
Blendshapes avatarYour face as live controls: jaw open, smiles, blinks and brows, streaming out by name. Needs a webcam.In the Demos browser
Audio danceA bone figure dancing to a track. The music swings the spine and arms, and the head trails behind.In the Demos browser
Million-poly dragonA dragon of about 250,000 triangles, lit by a key and a fill as the camera circles it.In the Demos browserFree. No account, no license key. macOS, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi. Questions about your pipeline? Reach out.