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 Record | MVN Animate Plus | MVN Animate Pro High Performance | |
| Record motion capture files | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Replay recorded files | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Xsens Live Engine data quality | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Xsens HD Reprocessing Engine data quality | Enabled through MotionCloud subscription | Enabled through MotionCloud subscription | ✔️ |
| Full magnetic immunity | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Number of actors supported | 1 Actor | Up to 2 Actors | Multiple (max 4) (unlimited with on-body recording) |
| Upload files to Xsens MotionCloud | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Exporting | Enabled 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/StretchSense | Xsens 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 & Orientation | Unity 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 compatibility | Unreal 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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