IKinema | Motion Capture, VR, Games - Best full body IK for games

Image courtesy of Phoenix Labs.

Image courtesy of ©Square Enix and ©Disney. Kingdom Hearts is an exclusive title for PlayStation®4

Image courtesy of Tarsier Studios, and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe

Tarsier Studios and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe team up with IKinema to animate gamescom hit, Little Nightmares

Image courtesy of Impulse Gear. Farpoint is an exclusive title for PSVR

Impulse Gear. Farpoint, an exclusive title for PSVR

Image courtesy of Microsoft

Miscrosoft Studios animates Crackdown 3 with IKinema

Achieve stunningly realistic
animation during game-play

with IKinema RunTime

Easy. Fast. Powerful

IKinema RunTime middleware is a powerful generic full-body IK solver used to create convincing and realistic motion for all human and fantasy characters during game play. Characters react naturally to ever changing terrain and environments, and scale obstacles with ease. Incorporating cutting edge tools, developers consistently deliver astonishingly real animation with totally believable characters in VR and games.

IKinema RunTime

Choose which license fits your occupation or organization

Indie

Revenue/funding below $80,000 US

Middleware provided as a plugin in binary format for Unreal Engine 4
One-off payment of £99
Support via forums only
Compatible with Launcher version of Unreal Engine 4
PC support only
14 days of free evaluation

Team

Revenue/funding below $500,000 US

Compatible with Unreal Engine 4 or custom game engines
Dedicated email support
Access to core IKinema SDK
Access to source code of Unreal Integration
Compatible with custom Unreal versions
Access to PC, Xbox One, PS4, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android ports
Success fee applicable if revenue exceeds $500,000 US

Studio

Any company revenue

Compatible with Unreal Engine 4 or custom game engines
Dedicated email and telephone support
Access to core IKinema SDK
Access to source code of Unreal Integration
Compatible with custom Unreal versions
Access to PC, Xbox One, PS4, MAC, Linux, iOS and Android
No success fee

Join the latest stars

In this video interview, Phoenix Labs' Simon Beaumont explains how they're blown away by IKinema RunTime and their new co-op RPG, Dauntless would be a much less interesting game without it!

Square Enix and Disney get heroes, friends and foe moving like never before, using the powerful RunTime middleware in latest Kingdom Hearts

Tarsier Studios and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe team up with IKinema to animate gamescom hit Little Nightmares

Photorealistic horror experts Capcom harnesses IKinema

NCSOFT are leaders of top MMORG’s. Bring in IKinema RunTime middleware, and their games certainly get stepped up

Impulse Gear’s Farpoint gets bodies in the game with IKinema RunTime VR

Snail Games harnesses super powers of IKinema RunTime

IKinema RunTime solves complex human behaviors for Supermassive Games

Why is Crackdown 3 so believable? IKinema RunTime to the rescue

Square Enix stays top of the game with IKinema RunTime

IKinema RunTime only solution for realism in Scalebound

What our customers say

"We are delighted to partner with IKinema. Their exceptional software helps realise the very high fidelity digital actors we use in our games. These believable humans have complex behaviours and are built from many intertwined data types and real-time systems. Working with IKinema allows us to focus on what we actually want our characters to do on-screen and solves some complex issues for us."
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Steve Goss | Director of Design | Supermassive Games

"By bringing IKinema RunTime technology into our game, it’s enabled our super-powered characters to react believably to dynamically changing environments and props, and has brought the over-the-top fun that’s essential to our overall gaming experience."
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Peter Connelly | Executive Producer | Microsoft Studios