Animation Pack - Sample | FREE

Experience AAA Quality for Free Introducing the Sample Pack—a diverse, professional-grade motion capture library designed to add life and believability to your characters. We created this pack completely free of charge so indie developers can test our workflow, retargeting fidelity, and animation quality with zero risk.

While many free packs offer bare essentials, this collection delivers a generous 120+ animations that showcase the range of our studio. We had fun with the performances in this pack! From the dramatic casting of a wizard’s spell to the comedic stagger of a drunkard, or even riding a "pretend horse" from a classic British movie, every movement is captured on the same high-quality motion capture systems used for AAA games.

Perfect for testing your pipeline, these animations cover a massive variety of genres: fantasy, modern life, combat, dance, and pure comedy. Whether you need a zombie eating off the floor or a character playing the piano, this pack proves that free assets don't have to sacrifice quality.

We’re more than just an asset pack! Join our active Discord community to request new animations, get support, and connect with other developers. We actively listen to the needs of the indie dev community and regularly give away free animations to help you finish your game.

Key Features

• 120+ Animations: An extensive "taster" library providing a massive variety of movements, allowing you to fully evaluate the quality of MoCap Central packs before you buy.
• Production Ready: Performances are captured on a high-quality motion capture system, cleaned, and processed at 30 FPS with animated fingers for realistic detail.
• Ready for Unreal Engine & Unity: Dedicated pack for each game engine. Unreal uses the standard UE5 Mannequin skeleton ensuring easy retargeting to MetaHumans. Unity version fully compatible with the Unity Humanoid system for easy integration with Mecanim.
  
• Seamless Workflow: Includes clean start/end poses to ensure smooth transitions between animations. Also includes demo maps and template prop objects to get you started immediately.
• Male & Female Friendly: While performed by a male actor, the body language is neutral enough to work effectively for female characters as well.
• Seamless Compatibility: Designed to integrate flawlessly with all other MoCap Central Studio Series packs. All our libraries utilize a standardized transition pose, allowing you to mix and match this sample content with our paid packs without blending issues.
  

Animations Included:

Review the Complete Animation List Here

• Fantasy & Combat: Add magic and action with a Wizard opening a spell book or making a cinematic staff entrance, Orcs strafing with hammers, zombies eating off the floor, and dynamic 2-character fight sequences.
• Performance & Dance: Bring entertainment to your scene with animations for sitting and playing the piano, singing with a microphone, and various dances ranging from a sea shanty to the movie "IT" dance.
• Unique & Comedic: Inject humor with the "Pretend Horse" (coconut clap galloping), a drunkard staggering and walking, stinky armpit reactions, and a heartfelt marriage proposal.
• World Interaction: Functional animations for using a drill on a wall, drinking from a moonshine bottle, or operating a vending machine.
• Locomotion & Traversal: Includes an Acrobat balancing on a ball, getting down to crawl, swagger walks, and injured movement while holding the stomach.

Compatibility:

• Unreal Engine 5.0 project
  • Unreal versions 5.0 to 5.8 supported
  • Animations use the standard UE5 Mannequin skeleton
  • Retargets easily to MetaHuman characters
    
  • IK joints are animated
• Unity 2022.3
  • Unity 2022.3 LTS to Unity 6+
  • Universal Render Pipeline (URP) compatible
  • Mecanim Humanoid compatible
  • Unity Humanoid character included for easy animation retargeting.
  • Demo scene and animation controllers included
• FBX Source Files
  • Raw skeletal FBX animation files for import into Maya, Blender, or any other 3D software
    

Updates:

• v1.2.1 - Unity version - updated materials to URP
• v1.2.1 - Unreal version - removed top node SKM_Manny_Simple from skeleton
• v1.2.0 - New animations added, UE has new MC character, new level layout with labels
• v1.1.0 - New animations added
• v1.0.0 - Original Release