Background People – Animated Character Library for Blender

Populate your scenes with animated background characters or crowds in seconds.

Background People is a Blender addon that gives you a full thumbnail browser directly in the N-panel,
letting you browse, filter, and place animated FBX characters without ever leaving the viewport.

Features:

• Thumbnail grid browser with pagination, search, and filters for gender, animation type, theme, and resolution
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• One-click import places characters at the 3D cursor, or use Place to click anywhere in the viewport to drop them exactly where you want
• Fill Curve — draw a curve along a row of seats or a street and fill it with random characters automatically or select them from the browser, with live spacing and rotation controls.
  Quickly fill rows of seats and even whole stadiums, you can place as many characters as you want, as long as the curve is long enough.
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• Look At — make selected characters' heads track any object in the scene, perfect for audiences looking at a stage or screen. Also works with most custom characters.
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• Automatic looping of all animations on import.
• Place whole groups with one click! Place people randomly or pick one of the formations: School Class, Queue, Stadium Crowd, Concert Crowd, Talking Group, Tour Group, Half Circle, Nightclub. Each have its own specific animations but they can also be customized.
  
  
• Texture sharing for better performance and fast render times.
• Custom library folder supported alongside the main library. Add your own animated character library with ease!
  Compatible with Mixamo, Character Creator exports and basically any FBX rig!
• 80 Different characters!! 40 men and 40 women. Each with 8 different animations! Comes in 7k and 800 tris versions.
  
  
• Expansion packs with more characters coming! Zombies, Beach people, Business people, Gym people, Wild West, Medieval, Sci-fi!
  
• Easy animation retargeting. Don't like a specific animation? Just click on another character and easily retarget the animation!
  
• Auto-Walk. Automatically make a character walk forward for the duration of the scene, or make it follow a path with just one click. With adjustable speed!
• Actively developed! Chime in on new features and help us shape this add-on. The updates will be free of charge!

Built for archviz, film, and game artists who need crowds, audiences, and background life — fast.