Cartwheel

Cartwheel is a generative motion platform aimed at teams who need believable 3D character animation without a full motion-capture shoot. Instead of hand-keyframing every action or booking a mocap stage, you describe the motion you want or supply a reference clip, and the platform generates physics-aware body animation that can be dropped into your existing pipeline.

The product targets the whole range of motion-heavy production: games with large animation budgets, film and TV sequences, advertising spots that need quick character beats, and robotics teams that need human-like movement data. Because motion is the hard, expensive part of character work, a generative approach lets studios iterate on dozens of variations before committing to a final take.

Cartwheel sits in the emerging category of text-to-motion and video-to-motion tools that blend motion libraries, motion capture, and rigging into a single workflow. It is designed to slot alongside conventional animation software rather than replace the artists using it, and it offers both a free entry point and paid tiers for heavier production use.