Cartwheel

Overview

Cartwheel is a professional AI animation platform built around performance capture. Its Comic 4 performance capture model brings multi-character, expressive faces, hands and camera moves to your animations — available now.

Cartwheel offers a complete animation toolkit: standalone apps, Comic AI performance capture, text-to-motion, an API for access at scale, mascot video character replacement, Cartographer for universal motion retargeting, a Motion Editor for smart motion editing, a Character Generator for reference-to-rigged 3D characters, and a production-ready Motion Library. Plugins and data tools extend its workflow even further.

Designed for studios, animators and game developers, Cartwheel makes professional-quality 3D character animation accessible — from text prompts to polished motion, with pricing plans, credit systems and full documentation.

Core capabilities

Performance capture

Comic 4 model with expressive faces and hands

Text-to-motion

generate animation from text prompts

Multi-character

capture and animate multiple characters

API access

animation at scale via API

Character generator

reference-to-rigged 3D characters

Motion retargeting

universal retargeting with Cartographer

Motion editor

smart editing for production

Motion library

production-ready motion assets

Use cases

Performance capture animation

Text-to-motion generation

3D character creation

Game animation production

Motion retargeting and editing