Movella Xsens MVN-Animate – Unleash your creativity

Whether it’s gaming, film, animation, TV broadcasting, or live entertainment, Movell XSENS 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.

Works anywhere

Use Xsens motion capture in the studio, at the office, or on set.

Magnetic immunity

Experience full magnetic immunity in all conditions.

No clean-up

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

Live stream all data

MVN Animate’s proprietary motion capture software can live-stream all data to your third-party 3D packages, 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. Or combine with Xsens Metagloves by Manus to track finger 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.

What can you do with Xsens 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.

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

Software options – Our software has three options to cover different needs and budgets.

Xsens Record

An Xsens 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.

Xsens Animate Plus

Take a step up with Xsens 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.

Xsens 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.