Shimingyi / awesome-animation-datasets

**Every motion dataset worth knowing — measured, reviewed, and one click from playing.**
Motion datasets are many, scattered and hard to compare: different formats, different bodies, no single place to see them. This list is that place: see what every dataset looks like and how clean its motion is, find the right and high-quality one fast, and notice the growing number of new releases. We focus on human motion, but also include animals, objects and robots.
| Quick review | Fast retrieval | Verified quality |
|---|---|---|
| Rendered 10 example clips of every dataset in browser — skeletons, SMPL bodies, textured rigged meshes. | One table per category with hours, clips, formats (SMPL / SMPL-X support first) and the links you need. | We keep all data clean: every dataset is checked visually, also measured on nine red-flag metrics. Broken or unrealistic ones move to **Use with caution**, and not included in the main list. |
**45 datasets · 2,367 hours of motion · 282,157 clips** — human bodies, hands, interactions, animals, rigged objects and robots, 2003–2026. 5 more (1,164 h) are listed under Use with caution.
 The numbers as tables 
| Subject | Datasets | Hours | Share |
|---|--:|--:|--:|
| 🧍 Human body | 40 | 1,371 | 58 % |
| 🐾 Animals | 2 | 1.9 | 
Hours count each recording once: 2 datasets that re-label or re-target another one are listed but not added¹, and 1 datasets publish no duration. Numbers come from each dataset's paper or homepage, or are measured from the data (see the schema).
## About this list
- **What gets in.** High-quality open-source motion datasets with more than an hour of data, with the datasets the community
 commonly uses. Datasets whose motion quality falls short (jitter, foot skating, penetration ...) are still listed,
 under Use with caution.
- **Quick review, not redistribution.** For every dataset we show 10 short example clips online in the
 Motion Viewer for a quick look. We do not offer the original motion
 for download: get each dataset from its authors. If you are an author and do not want your examples shown, please
 open an issue and we will remove them.
- **Missing a dataset?** A new release, or one we overlooked: open an issue
 with its link, or send a pull request (see Contributing). We hold motion quality to a high bar:
 data reconstructed from video (video mocap) will most likely be listed under Use with caution.
- **Fair durations.** Durations count each recording once: mirrored copies that some releases add are left out
 (BONES-SEED is 144 h here; the 288 h on its page include the mirrored copies). Hours are motion per person: a
 two-person take of one hour counts as 2 h.
## Datasets
Click a dataset for its details (size, capture, format, licence, BibTeX), or ▶ / the previews to play its examples
in the viewer. SMPL, SMPL-H or SMPL-X in the Data column: the dataset ships body-model parameters.
### 🧍 Human body
Full-body human motion, one performer or several interacting (mocap, video reconstruction, art