Free guide · Oct 5, 2026
Mixamo LLM Mocap: turn a video into a Mixamo animation
A step-by-step setup guide with requirements, checks and common problems.
The short version
Mixamo LLM Mocap is a free, open source pipeline that turns a video of someone moving into a clean animation on any Mixamo character in Blender. No mocap suit and no hand keyframing. It works on filmed footage or AI-generated video, with one performer or two fighting each other, and every stage is a command line step, so an AI coding agent can run the whole loop for you.
•What you need: an NVIDIA GPU with about 8 GB of VRAM, Blender 5.1 or newer, Python with uv, git and ffmpeg, a free Mixamo account and a free SMPL-X research registration. Developed on Windows; the docs say Linux works too.
•What you get: a 30 fps animation keyed onto your Mixamo rig, plus a review video and fidelity numbers comparing it with the source.
What's in the full guide
- 01What you need to bring
- 02The video it needs
- 03The pipeline at a glance
- 04Step 1: Install the dependencies
- 05Step 2: Build your character scene
- 06Step 3: Run your first clip
- 07Step 4: Hand it to an AI agent
- 08Two performers in one video
- 09Honest limits
- 10Where to go next