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Generate articulated motion for any rigged 3D skeleton from a text prompt, with no per-skeleton retraining. A SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 research model.
Generate rough walk, fly or swim motion for a non-human rig from a short prompt, to block out a scene before committing to hand animation.
You need production-ready, hand-polished animation with guaranteed quality on a specific rig.
Use the code, checkpoints and UniML3D dataset as a baseline for work on cross-topology motion generation.
You do not have a GPU environment or the time to set up a research codebase.
Rigging has become fast, but animating the result has not. Learned animators usually depend on category-specific templates, per-skeleton fine-tuning, or reference motions at inference. Teams working with varied characters, creatures and rigid objects either buy fixed motion packs or hand-animate each rig. UniMate targets that gap: given any rigged asset and a text prompt, it synthesizes motion for that exact skeleton, with no test-time optimization.
A topology-aware diffusion transformer adapts to each rig's structure, covering bipedal, quadrupedal, avian, marine, insectoid, serpentine and articulated rigid objects without retraining per skeleton.
Provide a rigged 3D asset and a prompt such as a dog walking or a dragon taking off. The model generates motion for that skeleton and exports sample renders and motion files.
The same trained model keeps chosen joints or keyframes fixed and regenerates the rest, or chains several prompts into a longer motion, with no fine-tuning or auxiliary networks.
The repo includes training configs, inference scripts and a data-processing pipeline. UniML3D holds 13,006 text-paired motion sequences, released on Hugging Face.
A helper script turns generated motion files into an animated GLB and FBX for the original rigged mesh, so results can move into a standard 3D workflow.
Truebones ZOO is a commercial pack of animal motion clips. The UniMate authors consume it as part of their training data and note that its license does not permit redistribution. A pack gives you fixed, authored clips for a fixed set of creatures. UniMate generates new motion from a prompt for the rig you supply, including rigs outside any pack, but quality varies and the project says many motions still fail.
Mixamo is a proprietary service with a library of human animations, and the UniMate dataset draws on Mixamo clips. Its strength is a large catalog of human motion. UniMate targets the case Mixamo's human focus does not cover: arbitrary skeletons such as quadrupeds, birds, insects and snakes, driven by text. You trade a polished hosted service for a self-run research codebase.
UniMate suits teams that want to prototype motion for varied rigs, or researchers who need open weights, code and data. It is not a drop-in replacement for a polished commercial animation suite. Expect to run Python, manage a GPU environment and review generated clips before they reach a project.
Setup uses a conda environment with Python 3.10 and the repository's requirements file.
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Friedrich-M/UniMate.git
cd UniMate
conda create -n unimate python=3.10 -y
conda activate unimate
pip install "setuptools<81"
pip install -r requirements.txt --no-build-isolation
```It generates articulated motion for a rigged 3D asset from a text prompt. A single unified model handles many skeleton types, with no per-skeleton retraining and no test-time optimization.
The repository is MIT licensed. The Truebones ZOO motions used to build part of the dataset are a separate commercial pack that is not redistributed, so you must purchase it directly to reproduce that portion.
Yes. The same pretrained model supports motion editing, in-betweening and expansion by pinning chosen joints or keyframes during sampling, with no fine-tuning.
Not yet. The authors describe it as an early step and note that many motions and skeletons still fail. Preview checkpoints are on Hugging Face and new ones will be synced there.
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