A Mixamo alternative that works on your own rig
Mixamo is free and has captured human motion. Moveset takes a different road: it computes animations on your own rig, inside Blender, offline, and lets you change the character's state with sliders
What each one is
| Mixamo | Moveset | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free with an Adobe account | $30, one time, free updates |
| Where it runs | In the browser; you upload the character | Inside Blender, offline; nothing is uploaded |
| Source of motion | Captured human motion | Computed procedurally from parameters |
| Your skeleton | Characters rigged by Mixamo's own skeleton | Any humanoid: Rigify, Mixamo, VRoid, Unreal, or map the bones yourself |
| Variation | A few parameters per clip | 14 character states, sliders for every action, 887 ready-made variants |
| For games | Single clips | 8-way locomotion, transitions that start and end on the frames of the loops they join, obstacles, hit reactions, 19 character kits |
Mixamo's strength is realistic captured motion, free and in a few clicks. Moveset's strength is control: the same character can walk brisk, tired, cold, drunk or confident, and the result lands as ordinary Actions on the rig you already have
When Mixamo is the better choice
- You want captured motion for free
Mixamo's clips come from real performances and cost nothing
- You need a quick auto-rig and a few clips
Upload, rig, download - it is hard to beat for a prototype
When Moveset is the better choice
- You have your own rig
Rigify, VRoid, an Unreal skeleton or something custom - animations are built for that skeleton and its proportions, so hands land on this model's face and hips
- You need many variations
Hundreds of actions, each in the character's state: a cold character waves small and hunched, a drunk one sways
- You are building a game
A full locomotion set with seamless loops, root motion, footstep markers and one-click export for Unity, Unreal and Godot
- You work offline and keep files private
Nothing leaves your computer
You can use both
Moveset supports Mixamo skeletons, including prefixed names and two- or three-bone fingers. Rig your character with Mixamo's auto-rigger, import it into Blender and animate it with Moveset. Step by step: animating a Mixamo rig in Blender