Custom motion for characters Mixamo will not rig, including where Mixamo still wins.
Mixamo's library is fixed at roughly 2,400 clips and has not grown in years. PINOC generates the exact move instead, from a reference video or a text prompt, in about 1 minute.
Stylised proportions, extra limbs off the silhouette, or a non-standard pose will fail Mixamo's rigger with no recourse. PINOC's marker-based auto-rig handles those models, and rigging spends no credits.
Mixamo has been effectively unmaintained for years and has had repeated outages. Teams shipping on a deadline want a tool that is actively developed, which PINOC is.
That is the whole difference between the two tools. Mixamo is a search problem. If the clip exists you win, and if it does not you compromise or hand-key. PINOC is a generation problem. You show it the move, in a video or in words, and it produces that move.
PINOC runs on JST, Viggle's in-house foundation model, trained with physical priors so captured motion respects weight, contact and timing. That is why a capture from a shaky phone clip lands with plausible foot plants instead of the floaty output older video-to-mocap tools are known for. And when a contact does slip, Ground snap and Pin feet — free cleanup controls in the Adjust panel — plant the character and lock the feet.
The output is a first pass, not a finished shot. PINOC exists to replace the expensive mocap session and the slow blocking phase, and the animator refines from there.
Motion input is video or text — film the move, or just describe it and PINOC animates it. Text to 3D motion
Free with an Adobe ID. No credit meter. Library clips and auto-rigging included.
Motion is 1 credit per second; rigging, retargeting, adjust and the built-in library spend none. Yearly billing saves 20%.
60 credits, no card required, at viggle.ai/pinoc/app.
If it is Mixamo-rigged, PINOC detects the rig and maps the bones. If it is unrigged, place the guide markers and let PINOC auto-rig it. Neither spends credits.
Film the motion on your phone or paste reference footage, and get the 3D animation in about 1 minute. Preview it on your character before exporting.
Blender, Unity, Unreal, Maya, Cinema 4D and Houdini all treat it as a Mixamo skeleton.
Keep pulling generic walks, runs and idles from Mixamo's back catalogue, and use PINOC wherever the library has no answer. Same skeleton, one pipeline.
William shot reference clips on his iPhone, extracted FBX motion with PINOC, retargeted in Blender, and imported into Godot for his horror comedy game. Zero hardware cost.
Real parkour runs, captured with PINOC and built into his game "Erased".
Real gym flips, captured with PINOC and retargeted onto Shrek in the backrooms.
Salman pulls walk cycles and idles from video with PINOC and brings them into Blender as part of his day to day animation workflow. Clean enough to render straight away.
Yes. Mixamo is free with an Adobe ID and has no credit meter. PINOC is free to start with 60 credits, and paid plans begin at $12.99 per month.
Adobe has not formally discontinued Mixamo, but it has been effectively unmaintained for years, with no new library clips and repeated outages. PINOC, by contrast, is in active development at Viggle.
Mixamo's auto-rigger expects a standard humanoid mesh in a clean A or T pose, and it often fails on stylised proportions, props attached to the mesh, or unusual silhouettes. PINOC rigs those same models with a marker-based auto-rig, and rigging spends no credits.
Yes, Mixamo clips can be used in commercial projects under Adobe's general terms. Motion you capture or generate in PINOC is yours to use commercially on the paid plans; the free tier is for non-commercial use.
Yes. PINOC exports FBX and GLB on a Mixamo-named skeleton — or a MetaHuman rig for Unreal — so it drops straight into any Mixamo-rigged pipeline in Blender, Unity, Unreal, Maya, Cinema 4D or Houdini, and existing Mixamo retargeting tutorials still apply.
Yes. PINOC turns any clip of a person moving, from a phone, webcam, screen recording or internet footage, into 3D skeletal animation in about 1 minute, staying true to the original performance.
No. Uploading a model, auto-rigging and retargeting in PINOC spend no credits. Credits are spent on motion at 1 credit per second, per character; a 3D character from an image starts at 5 credits.
Yes, and it is the setup we recommend. Because both tools share the Mixamo-named skeleton, you can keep pulling generic clips from Mixamo's library and use PINOC wherever the library has no answer, in one pipeline.
Turn any video into 3D skeletal animation.
Rig a model without manual bone placement.
Describe a move and get the animation.
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