We looked at Mesh2Motion last year and since then this awesome, easy, free and open source Mixamo alternative continues to gain new features. Now in addition to animating bipedal characters, they have also added several other rigs (and associated animations) including birds, snakes, dragons and more.
Features of Mesh2Motion include:
Import, Rig, Animate, then Export
Full skeleton rigs, intuitive positioning, and a full undo/redo history so you can experiment.
- Supports importing GLB, GLTF, DAE, and FBX models
- Animation rigs for Birds, Dragons, Spiders, Kaiju, Foxes, and Humans
- Intuitive skeleton positioning
- Undo/Redo system when you make mistakes
Modify & Import Animations
Mesh2Motion provides all the source Blender model and animation files for you to study and improve.
- Improve or add new animations from the Blender rigs provided
- Import animations into Mesh2Motion to test compatibility
- Free for personal or commercial use. Licensed under CC0.
- All source files available on GitHub. Blender source files
- Some human animations from Quaternius
Export Bundled Animation File
Export multiple animations at once – all packed into a single GLB. The format natively supported by game engines, Three.js, Babylon.js, and most modern 3D pipelines.
- Export multiple animations at once
- Uses widely-supported GLB format
- Free for personal or commercial use. Licensed under CC0.
- Human animation library from Quaternius
Key Links
You can learn more about Mesh2Motion and see how easy it is to use this animation application to add animations to a 3D model (then exported to the Godot Engine) in the video below.