Havok Animation™
Scale and Perform!

Havok Animation is a fast and flexible animation SDK and tool chain that provides optimized playback and real-time blending on all major platforms. Create characters that move fluidly, taking advantage of comprehensive animation compression techniques, pose retargeting, inverse kinematics, mirroring, attachments, and integration with Havok Physics™ to enable a new range of game-play possibilities. Havok Animation also provides artists with an integrated filtering, preview, and export tool that operates seamlessly with your studio’s choice of commercial modeling and animation tools.

Features of Havok Animation Include:

  • Highly efficient animation compression and decompression
  • Motion blending and mixing
  • Animation controls for speed, direction, looping, and weight control
  • Retargeting of pose and motion between characters
  • Tools and run-time for ragdoll-to-animation-rig bone-mapping
  • Per-bone/per-track weighting
  • Animation ease curve support
  • Motion extraction and re-composition for run-time control of character velocity
  • Mirroring of character pose and motion
  • Attachments

As with all Havok products and tools, Havok Animation is fully multithreaded and cross-platform optimized.



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Havok Animation Brief

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Pioneering Animation Tools

Animation Screenshots

Animation Demos

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