Sanimate - Scan and Animate
An iPhone app that scans your head with the TrueDepth camera, wraps an animation-ready mesh onto it and drives it live with your own expressions, all on the device. Record takes and talking reels, stream to Blender, and export to OBJ, STL, PLY, USDZ or glTF with 52 blendshapes.
A tour
What it does
Scan
Real-time TrueDepth head scanning with a live coverage map. It even works in the dark. Devices without TrueDepth scan with the front camera.
Map
Wraps a clean, animatable mesh onto your scan in about a minute, with lips and eyelids cut where your face has them.
Animate
Your avatar follows your face at up to 60 fps with 52 expression blendshapes, voice lip sync and procedural wrinkles.
Looks
Skin, clay, porcelain, steel, chrome, gold, copper, hologram, inner glow and liquid, with scuffs, rust and backdrops including green screen.
Record
Takes you can restyle later, clean 9:16 reels with your voice for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and 4K stills.
Export
OBJ, STL, PLY and USDZ, plus game-ready glTF avatars with ARKit-named blendshapes for Blender, Unity, Unreal and Godot.
Live in Blender
The Sanimate Link add-on brings your avatar into Blender with all 52 shape keys and drives it live from the phone over Wi-Fi. Materials, smoothing, expression strength and takes are controlled in Blender. Any rig with ARKit-named shape keys can be driven too.
Get it on GumroadFree to enjoy. Pro when you want more.
- Scan and map your face
- Export the scan and mapped face: OBJ, STL, PLY, USDZ
- Animate live with lip sync and wrinkles
- Record takes and reels, 1080p photos
- Skin, Clay, Porcelain, Steel and Chrome looks
- Blender Link
- Liquid Drip (blood, ink, molten gold, slime, tears), Inner Glow, Hologram, Gold, Copper
- Scuffs and rust, Pro backdrops and skin tones
- 4K photos, no watermark, Ultra scans, Neon video
- Game-ready glTF avatar with 52 blendshapes
- Export recorded 3D animation: animated USD, OBJ sequence, glTF
Private by design. Scans, avatars and recordings stay on your device. No servers, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.