Motorica

Motorica is a generative AI animation engine designed to eliminate the most tedious and time-consuming aspects of character animation. It empowers you to produce AAA-quality motion at the speed of previsualization, turning weeks of manual work into mere minutes. Stop sacrificing quality for speed and focus on what truly matters: your creative vision.

Key Features

• 🤖 Direct Your AI Mocap Actor Turn your 3D environment into a virtual mocap stage. Using our dedicated plugin or API, you can direct the AI actor live within your scene, generating complex and responsive animations on the fly. This gives you immediate visual feedback and unparalleled creative control.

• 🎨 Blend and Customize Animation Styles Instantly access a library of over 100 professionally crafted motion styles. Whether you need a specific walk, run, or action, you can find the perfect fit for your character. Go further by blending these styles together to create entirely new and unique performance characteristics.

• 🧬 Clone Your Own Motion with Style Clone Capture your unique vision by training a custom style from your own data. By supplying as little as 10 minutes of motion capture, Motorica’s AI learns the distinct nuances of that performance. Once trained, you can apply that style endlessly to generate new animations without ever needing to capture again.

• ⚙️ Automate Gameplay Animation Datasets Drastically accelerate the creation of animation for gameplay systems like Motion Matching. Our Motion Factory allows you to define your character's movement parameters—such as acceleration and target speed—and instantly generate a complete, perfectly tailored dataset, ready for your game engine.

Use Cases

• For Game Developers: Imagine needing a complete locomotion set for your new player character. Instead of booking a mocap stage and spending weeks cleaning data, you simply define your parameters in the Motion Factory. In minutes, you receive a full dataset with precise control over every movement. For Unreal Engine users, our plugin automates the import, retargeting, and pose search database creation, getting you in-game faster than ever.

• For Film and VFX Animators: When blocking out a complex cinematic, you can use Motorica to populate your scene with high-fidelity character animations instantly. This allows for rapid prototyping and iteration with production-quality motion from day one. The output is so clean and consistent that it can often be used directly in the final shot, saving immense amounts of time and budget.

Unique Advantages

The primary advantage of Motorica is its ability to deliver both elite quality and exceptional speed without compromise. Unlike traditional mocap, which can be inconsistent and requires extensive cleanup, Motorica provides perfectly controlled, consistent results every time. As animator Maxi Keller (The Last of Us: Part II) notes, it delivers "better, more consistent results than mocap as they give you exact control on acceleration and target speed." This fusion of quality, speed, and precise control is what sets Motorica apart.

Conclusion:

Motorica fundamentally changes the economics of character animation. By automating repetitive tasks and providing powerful, intuitive creative tools, it allows you to amplify your output and focus entirely on performance and storytelling. It’s a professional-grade tool built to deliver visionary results for the world's most demanding creators.

Explore how Motorica can accelerate your animation workflow today!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. Is Motorica only for game development? While Motorica offers powerful tools specifically for game developers, such as the Motion Factory for Motion Matching, its applications extend to film, previsualization, and virtual production. The ability to quickly generate high-quality, directable character animation makes it an invaluable tool for any creator working with 3D characters.

2. What kind of data do I need to create a custom Style Clone? You can train a unique Style Clone using just 10 minutes of your own motion capture data. This allows you to transfer the specific performance DNA from an actor or existing animation into Motorica's generative engine, giving you an endless supply of on-style motion.

3. How does Motorica's output compare to a traditional mocap session? Motorica is designed to provide results that are not only faster but often more consistent and controllable than raw mocap. It eliminates variables and artifacts from a physical shoot, providing clean data tailored to specific parameters like speed and acceleration. This reduces the need for manual cleanup and gives you more predictable, art-directable results.