Can you use AXYZ Anima characters in Blender?

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I watched a Blender Bob tutorial about crowds and he used Anima:

But when I went to their website, if you JUST buy the models, and not the software, it doesn’t appear that they have any formated for Blender:

https://secure.axyz-design.com/en/shop/cwom0018a4d_standing_phone

Anyone run into this??

thx!

George

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According to their FAQ:

When purchasing any metropoly® 3d people characters you will have access to all formats for free.
In your account dashboard you will find a DOWNLOAD section with the links for each format.
If you download and use anima® LITE FREE version, you can useanima® .Y files included in your order and multiply the number of available rendering engines.

Included with each of the 3d models purchased you will have:

FORMATS

  1. Autodesk 3ds Max®
  2. Maxon Cinema 4D®
  3. AXYZ design anima®
  4. Newtek Lightwave®
  5. McNeel Rhino®
  6. Trimble Sketchup®
  7. Autodesk FBX®, OpenCollada®, Wavefront® OBJ, The Khronos® GLTF
  8. Unreal Engine®
  9. Blender® The Blender Foundation

RENDERERS

  1. Chaos Group V-Ray®
  2. Render Legion Corona Render®
  3. Otoy Octane® Render
  4. Next Limits Maxwell® Render
  5. Altair Engineering Thea® Render
  6. Pinksoft F-Storm®
  7. Native standard render
  8. Autodesk Arnold® Render
  9. Redshift Rendering Technologies
  10. NVIDIA Mental Ray®
  11. Blender® EEVEE realtime rendering engine.
  12. Cycles, Blender’s physically-based production renderer.
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that’s really helpful! Thx man.

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As far as I can say, Anima has no blender add-on. You need to export as FBX and then import that to Blender, which works fine, except for shaders that need adjustment (Which you may only have to do once).
I had no problem with 20 characters playback in a scene. Surprisingly the import was working, but I’m not sure if I used ‘better FBX’ importer add-on.
Apart from that, the much more interesting thing would be using AXYZ 4D People, which are basically a mdd/alembic kind of format, to stream live action scans. But that only works with a special plugin available for 3dsmax and C4D. I read they added Unreal, but no word about other applications.
Also I guess, since they just got bought from Chaos, the Blender support is off the table.

Also they have now a Render Option in Anima 5.0 … Haven’t tested that yet.