Marionette does NOT use Cloud Credits and does NOT make you upload to the Cloud.

You pay a flat, yearly fee, and can export as much motion capture animation as you like! There are no limits on exporting!

We recement recording with mobile phone cameras however any video that meets the following criteria should work in Marionette:

• Resolution: 720p or higher.

• Placement: Standing still (the camera cannot have movement or it will obstruct the motion)

• FPS: 30 fps or 60 fps.

• Distortion : Undistorted (If the video is distorted, the movement cannot be captured correctly. For example, a fisheye lens will distort the image and cannot be used because it will distort the motion. However, most mobile phone wide angle lenses are undistorted form the manufacture.)

OS: Windows
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 745 or newer.

We do not currently support AMD or CPU only.

Multi-tracking or multiple person tracking is not available at the moment. We are working on implementing this in the future.

Green screens, clean backgrounds, and messy backgrounds are all acceptable video environments. As long as there is only one person in the video, Marionette will not have a problem.

Marionette runs completely on your desktop computer and can also be run offline.

Animation export options vary by subscription:

• Free: No export capabilities
• Indie, Pro, & Educational: Stream to Blender & Maya through our plugins or export baked motion to FBX, GLTF, & GLB

You will only be able to export by the type of character import you have. For example, if you use a GLB or import a GLB to use, it will ONLY export a GLB. Marionette does not perform conversions.

Our default character is FBX. You can export your animations with our default character and extract the animation for use elsewhere, if needed.

Marionette does not export camera data.

“Failed to find human/pattern in all videos”: This means that the frame you have calibrated on cannot detect a human form. Select a different frame to calibrate on, one where the human form is more visible and motion blur is minimal. You can do this by selecting a different position on the Take Preview timeline (your video).

1. Make sure you assign all the bones before pressing Connect inside Blender.
2. Make sure that the “Hips” bone has been assigned.
3. If the issue persists, please send us a video capture of your process and your project file to help us troubleshoot your issue.

If you have changed computers and need to activate Marionette on a new computer, you will get the option to delete the current activation from the old computer. This occurs when you put your license code into Marionette.

Yes, you can! Once you download the software, navigate to:

C:\Program Files\Marionette\Marionette_Data\StreamingAssets\DemoAssets\Characters

Here, you can see and test out all our default characters in Marionette with other programs.