Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models (mesh2motion.org)

Pleasantly surprised to see a project like this without genAI nowadays.

And for people inevitably asking "why not Blender," my answer is that the field of 3D content creation is so vast that some people need "gateway drug" like this (and SketchUp, and Daz3D, etc) before trying to throw themselves into Blender/Maya/Houdini's throats.

Having the skeleton be auto-deduced (through the ML or otherwise) would've been a very natural fit here as a feature. Knowing that it's basically possible to do, selecting the skeleton type and then adjusting it manually, joint by joint, seems ... archaic?

I can see this being huge for 3d-printing. Apply on a sculpted .stl, reposition and download/save the new pose. There is already stuff in Blender to do stuff like that, but Blender is almost like a hobby in itself, just like the actual printing is like a hobby (to learn and master).

Yessssssss......

This and more mocap's plz. Keep going! The multiple animation export to glb saves me a ton of time. This is great! Combine this with ArmorPaint and you're almost there. Blender is great but it's so heavy.

Great job.

i need to map out tree house plans - can this be used?

nice, animating spinning wheels or tracks on vehicles would be cool!

I just wanted to thank the creators of this app for making it usable without having to create an account. It's a breath of fresh air!

Great project! It uses the motion library from the artist quaternius. He has some wonderful free and low-cost models.

This is cool! I was confused how to get going at first and didn't realise it was a step-by-step wizard I had to follow, plus I only watched the demo video briefly. I loaded the human then clicked around the main area and couldn't get anything to happen, and almost gave up.

Suggestion to help with this: Instead of starting with a blank slate, start right at the end of the process with the human model loaded and animated, then the user can go "back" and change things once they've seen the kind of results they can get.

This is defo a well needed project. The only other alternative I can think about is Mixamo. Goodluck and hope this projects overtakes Mixamo

> Supports humanoid, four-legged, and bird creatures.

Man is a featherless biped

- tantalor

amazing timing! been needing something like this since Blender has been tough.

I've been working on a cybercafe simulator with Three.js and codex and animation is hard to get right

https://x.com/AgentifySH/status/1981761490274464068

All in typescript too. Actually very impressive. Well, some webm videos and .glb 3dfiles but only the essentials it seems, the rest is all propper typescript.

But a very nicely put together repo. Good job.

Very nice project! Thanks for making it open-source and very easy to use. I hope you'll find contributors and be able to get a nice collection of animations!

I'm starting a new project, I may have to use this tool in the next few months.

This is great! I've been using mixamo and really sion, but would just love something open source that does both the body rigging as well as the facial rigging and lip syncing. It'd make life so much easier

What algorithm is it using for applying weights? Blender uses automatic bone heat weighting, but sometimes it can fail.

There's an open-source plugin that does surface-based heat diffusion and also this really clever voxel solution: https://superhivemarket.com/products/voxel-heat-diffuse-skin...