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Xsens MVN Animate

Unleash your creativity

Experience cutting-edge 3D character animation with MVN Animate. 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.

Overview

Everywhere

Works anywhere

Xsens motion capture can be used anywhere; in the studio, in the office or on set.

Magnetic immune

Experience full magnetic immunity in all conditions.

No clean-up

Save time with clean, production-quality motion capture data.

Features

Live stream all data
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.

Multi-actor capture
Connect up to 4 systems for multi-actor capturing. Combine with Xsens Metagloves or StretchSense gloves to track fingers movements. You can also make use of 3D position aiding systems like HTC Vive.

Real-time visualization
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.

Xsens MVN Animate features

What can you do with MVN Animate?

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.

Best quality mocap data with HD Reprocessing

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.

MVN Animate Pro offers HD reprocessing locally. Additionally, you can make use of MVN Processing in/on MotionCloud to process your motion capture data from wherever you are – and share it with your team, wherever they are.

Best quality mocap data with HD Reprocessing

Three software options

Free MVN Record, and license-based MVN Animate Plus and Pro are available to cover different needs and budgets. Additional features are added at each product level.

MVN Record

An MVN Record subscription is completely free and enables you to do motion capture with one actor and record the files. It’s ideal if you have multiple systems in multiple locations.

To export and process your data, with enhanced performance, you can add MVN Processing in Xsens MotionCloud.

MVN Animate Plus

Take a step up with MVN Animate Plus. Support two actors, and get top-quality live streaming into your chosen game engine (Unreal Engine, Unity, Maya, etc). Perfect for virtual influencer performances in real time, on platforms like Twitch and YouTube.

Can be paired with the MotionCloud subscription for HD reprocessing and exporting features

MVN Animate Pro

Our top-of-the-range version. Support up to four actors, or add on-body recording to capture motion from unlimited actors – even remotely.

Add more file types to your exporting. And bring 3D positional aiding and timecode support into play.

Integrations and plugins for entertainment

Learn more about how MVN Animate fits into the ecosystem of full-body motion capture solutions.

Unreal Engine
Unity
Motionbuilder
Maya
3DS Max
Manus
StretchSense
Houdini
Cinema4D
Pixotope
iClone
Blender
Notch
Mo-Sys
StypeLand
Moveshelf

MVN Animate Feature Comparison

	MVN Record	MVN Animate Plus	MVN Animate Pro High Performance
Record motion capture files
Replay recorded files
Xsens Live Engine data quality
Xsens HD Reprocessing Engine data quality	Enabled through MotionCloud subscription	Enabled through MotionCloud subscription
Full magnetic immunity
Number of actors supported	1 Subject	Up to 2 Subjects	Multiple (max 4) (unlimited with on-body recording)
Upload files to Xsens MotionCloud
Exporting	Enabled through MotionCloud subscription Formats: – MVNX (position/orientation) – FBX – BVH	Enabled through MotionCloud subscription Formats: – MVNX (position/orientation) – FBX – BVH	Available in software Formats: – MVNX – FBX – BVH – C3D – MP4 (movie)
Finger tracking Manus/Stretch Sense	Xsens Metagloves by Manus Xsens Gloves by Manus Manus Prime II StretchSense gloves	Xsens Metagloves by Manus Xsens Gloves by Manus Manus Prime II StretchSense gloves	Xsens Metagloves by Manus Xsens Gloves by Manus Manus Prime II StretchSense gloves
Live streaming: – Quaternion & Euler – Position & Orientation		– Unity 3D – Unreal Engine – Maya – MotionBuilder – iClone – Houdini	– Unity 3D – Unreal Engine – Maya – MotionBuilder – iClone – Houdini
Extended live streaming: – Virtual optical marker set
Stream recorded files
Plugins and third-party compatibility		– Unreal Engine – Unity3D – Autodesk + various others	– Unreal Engine – Unity3D – Autodesk + various others
Remote control
MVN Remote app
Soft access point
3D positional aiding with HTC Vive
3D Positional aiding with GNSS (GPS)
Network sync
Time code
On-body recording (OBR)
Remote on-body recording
Suit configuration: Full body Lower body Upper body Lower body plus sternum
Scenarios	– Single level – Multilevel – No level	– Single level – Multilevel – No level