What is Cascadeur?

Cascadeur is a standalone 3D animation application that supports keyframe animation and animation cleanup. It incorporates AI‑assisted pose generation (AutoPosing) and physics simulation (AutoPhysics) to streamline rigging, retargeting, and secondary motion.

The software offers quick rigging tools that import skeletons from Daz3D, Character Creator, Mixamo, Unreal Engine, Metahuman, and Player.me, then generate a standard rig with a single click. Animation unbaking allows baked keyframes to become editable, while Video Mocap and Fulcrum Motion Cleaning enable conversion of video footage into editable animation sequences.

Cascadeur supports .FBX, .DAE, and .USD file formats, facilitating integration into existing pipelines for game studios, VFX houses, and interactive media projects. The user interface includes intuitive controllers for fingers, automatic pose adjustment, and sliders for secondary motion to add realism to idle or action sequences.

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Cascadeur details

Company: Nekki Limited
Jurisdiction: Cyprus
Built for: Businesses and teams
Data residency: Germany and the Netherlands

Cascadeur tech specs

Payment Processors: Paddle
Integrations: Discord

Cascadeur pricing

Freemium

Free $0

Indie 8$/mo billed annually

Pro 33$/mo billed annually

Teams 33$ per user/mo billed annually

Free trial: 14 days

Trial, refund and renewal terms as stated in Cascadeur's own published documentation.

Verify on the official pricing page.

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Cascadeur's key features

AI-assisted keyframe animation
Physics-based motion simulation
Quick Rigging drag-and-drop joints
Neural network AutoPosing for poses
Unbaking baked animations into keyframes
Video Mocap conversion to animation
Copy-Paste Retargeting between characters

Cascadeur use cases

Create cinematic character animations for indie games using Cascadeur’s AI pose generation and physics simulation, then export FBX for seamless integration into Unreal Engine pipelines
Transform recorded motion capture or live‑action video into clean, rigged 3D animations, automatically retargeting onto custom skeletons and applying physics‑based cleanup for VFX studios
Prototype interactive NPC behaviors quickly by generating and tweaking pose sequences in Cascadeur, baking keyframes, and exporting USD files ready for real‑time rendering engines like Unity or Godot