Welcome to the Cartwheel docs. Here you'll discover how quickly you can bring your 3D characters to life—creating professional animations in minutes for your videos, films, and games. You'll learn the about 3 ways you can apply motion to your characters and how you can seamlessly integrate them into your projects.
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Quickstart
New to Cartwheel? Here's some step-by-step instructions on how to get started creating and downloading motion right away:
- Head over to Cartwheel and create an account.
- Once you're in Cartwheel Studio, you should see the "Video to animation" tab. If it isn't already open, select it to open it.
- Upload or record a video reference and make any needed adjustments.
- When ready select "Add motion," to generate your 3D animation.
- Then select download in the top right and choose your desired download format.
It's that easy. For more information on uploading or recording video check out the video documentation. To learn about the other ways to create motion in Cartwheel check out the creating motion documentation.
Explore more topics
Get an understanding of the UI in Cartwheel Studio or get more into the specifics on the different ways to generate quality character motion.
Interface Overview
Get a comprehensive overview of the Cartwheel studio user interface.
Video to motion
Learn about what formats to upload, how to record your own reference videos and how to get the best results when generating motion from your videos.
Browsing the Motion Library
Learn how to use motions from our vast and evergrowing Motion Library.
Text to motion (beta)
Learn how to create character animation from simple text prompts.