Expertise in Computer Graphics

Movella Xsens MVN Animate

Unleash your creativity

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.

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. 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 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.

Software options

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

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.

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.

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.

MVN Animate features

This table gives you an overview of the features and functionalities of our different MVN Animate software options.

MVN RecordMVN Animate PlusMVN Animate Pro
High Performance
Record motion capture files✔️✔️✔️
Replay recorded files✔️✔️✔️
Xsens Live Engine data quality✔️✔️✔️
Xsens HD Reprocessing Engine data qualityEnabled through MotionCloud subscriptionEnabled through MotionCloud subscription✔️
Full magnetic immunity✔️✔️✔️
Number of actors supported1 ActorUp to 2 ActorsMultiple (max 4)
(unlimited with on-body recording)
Upload files to Xsens MotionCloud✔️✔️✔️
ExportingEnabled through MotionCloud subscription

Formats: 
MVNX (position/orientation)
FBX
BVH
Enabled through MotionCloud subscription

Formats: 
MVNX (position/orientation)
FBX
BVH
Available in         
software

Formats: 
FBX
BVH
C3D
MP4 (movie)
Finger tracking Manus/StretchSenseXsens Metagloves by Manus
Xsens Gloves by Manus
Manus Prime II
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: – Quaternian & Euler – Position & OrientationUnity 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 compatibilityUnreal 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
✔️

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