Animator’s Glove Suite

RIGITOON STUDIOS in Animation

NEW · LATEST UPDATE
Good News — Now Supports Auto-Rig Pro & Rigify Directly!
Works out-of-the-box with Mixamo, Daz, Cascadeur, Auto-Rig Pro, Rigify, and custom rigs.

Animator’s Glove Suite

Real-time hand puppeteering that actually feels natural — blend poses with your mouse, extract finger gestures from AI/images, and animate directly in the 3D viewport. Select, glide, done.

🖐️ Radial Puppeteering 🤖 AI Image-to-Pose 🔄 Universal Retargeting ⚡ Auto-Rig Pro & Rigify
Animator's Glove Overview
BUILT FOR PRODUCTION PIPELINES

Why You Need It

Blender Hand MOCAP Alternative

Go beyond standard motion capture by blending and puppeteering custom target poses using a visual node-based UI—without needing specialized gloves or hardware.

AI Finger Tracking in Blender

Instantly capture, smooth, and apply hand and finger data derived from single images directly onto your rig's keyframes—perfect for VRChat gestures and character art.

Visual Pose Library Alternative

Instead of scrolling through static text menus, quickly store, mirror, and visually blend your favorite hand shapes directly in the viewport in real-time.

01. THE PUPPETEERING MODAL SYSTEM

Glide Your Mouse, Animate in Real-Time.

Stop rotating dozens of finger bones one by one. Start animating with an interactive, node-based HUD right on your screen with live gesture icons and instant visual feedback.

The Puppeteering Modal System
Dynamic 7-Node Blending 1 center node and 6 outer nodes intelligently blend poses based on cursor proximity.
Live Node Weights Connecting lines visualize pose influence—the closer your cursor, the stronger the gesture.
Real-Time Auto-Key Enable Auto-Key (Record) to drop keyframes automatically as you glide your mouse.
02. PRESET & POSE MANAGEMENT

Capture Once, Reuse Across Every Character.

Build your personal library of hand gestures in seconds. Lock in rotation data from the viewport into any of the 7 slots with a single click.

Preset and Pose Management
Portable .JSON Presets Save and load complete hand setups as .json files across characters and projects.
Symmetry & Mirroring Symmetrically transfer poses (R ↔ L) with full support for parallel-axis rigging systems.
One-Click Slot Capture Pose a hand in the viewport and lock its rotation data straight into a radial node slot.
03. ADVANCED ANIMATION POLISH

Automatic by Default — Surgical When You Need It.

Clean up recorded motion in one click without spending hours untangling curves in the Graph Editor.

Advanced Animation Polish
Keyframe Cleaning Strip out redundant keyframes automatically using customizable threshold sliders.
Iterative Auto-Smoothing Iron out jittery transitions with smoothing passes directly from the N-panel.
"Fingers Only" Mode Layer intricate finger gestures on top of existing body animations without overwriting wrist or arm bones.
04. AI FINGER CAPTURE MODULE

From Any Photo to a 3D Hand Pose in Seconds.

Powered by MediaPipe landmark detection, Finger Capture extracts 3D finger rotations from a single 2D reference image and applies them straight to your rig and preset library.

AI Finger Capture 1
AI Finger Capture 2
How Finger Capture Works:
  1. Install & Enable: Install the .zip in Edit > Preferences > Add-ons and enable Animation: Animator's Glove Finger Capture.
  2. One-Click Dependencies: Click Install MediaPipe + Download Model inside the panel.
  3. Load Reference: Select your character's Armature and choose an input image for the pose.
  4. Preview Landmarks: Click Preview Landmark to inspect the detected finger joints (adjust Min Detection Confidence if needed).
  5. Apply to Rig: Click Capture Pose from Image to transfer the finger pose directly to your character's hand.
Important Note: Use a Mixamo rig to initially capture the image pose—once captured, save it to a preset slot and apply it to any rig system you want!
▶ WATCH FINGER CAPTURE TUTORIAL
05. UNIVERSAL RIG RETARGETING

Calibrate Any Custom Armature for Seamless Pose Transfer.

Animator's Glove works natively out-of-the-box with standard rigs like Auto-Rig Pro, Rigify, Mixamo, Daz, and Cascadeur. Have a custom rig with non-standard bone naming? The integrated Retargeting module maps it in moments.

Animator's Glove Retargeting
06. GET STARTED IN 60 SECONDS

Quick Start Guide

Quick Start Guide
STEP 01
Install
Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Install, select the .zip, and enable Animator's Glove.
STEP 02
Setup
Select your character's Armature in the viewport and switch into Pose Mode.
STEP 03
Configure
Open the Animation tab in the N-panel. Load a preset or capture poses into the 7 slots.
STEP 04
Puppeteer & Confirm
Click Start Puppeteering, glide your mouse to blend, and Right-Click / ESC to lock it in!
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Details
Blender Extension Compatible Yes
Sales 10+
Published 6 months ago
Blender Version 3.0 - 5.1
Extension Type Add-on
Render Engine Used Blender-Internal, Eevee
License GPL

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