Cascadeur

What is Cascadeur?

Cascadeur is 3D character animation software from Nekki. It is used for character animation, mocap cleanup, AI motion generation and editing, combining keyframing with physics-aware tools so poses and motion look natural.

Key capabilities of Cascadeur

• AutoPosing: natural poses from moving fewer control points.
• AutoPhysics: adjusts secondary motion and inertia.
• Inbetweening: AI generates motion between keyframes.
• AI Motion Generation: creates motions such as running, jumping, combat and idles.
• Ragdoll: simulates falls and impact reactions.
• Retargeting and rigging: copy animation between skeletons and generate rigs for humanoids and quadrupeds.

How Cascadeur works

Animators set key poses, Cascadeur's AI and physics fill in natural motion, and results are cleaned up and exported. Export formats are FBX, DAE, GLB/GLTF and USD, and the vendor lists connections to Unreal Engine (including Live Link), Unity, Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Cinema 4D, Daz 3D and Mixamo.

Who uses Cascadeur?

Game and film animators, indie developers and students. Licence types are Free, Indie, Pro (Individual), Teams, Pro Trial and Educational.

Cascadeur pricing

The free licence prohibits commercial use, with limited exceptions. The Indie licence requires annual revenue or funding under US$100,000. Prices for paid licences are on the Cascadeur plans page.

Cascadeur alternatives

Meshy generates 3D models from text or images and does not animate characters with physics. Kaedim converts 2D images into 3D models. CSM, short for Common Sense Machines, also generates 3D assets from images. Cascadeur is for animating characters once you have them.