MotionLabs Animation Workbench Lite 2.6 - Edit, Pose & Preview Animations

Animation Workbench - Community (Free)

Animation Workbench is an all-in-one animation workflow toolkit for Unity. Browse, edit, preview, and bring your animations to life - without ever leaving the editor. Works with humanoid and generic characters.

Keyframe Editing & Live Edit

• full keyframe editor with timeline scrubbing, pose editing, and onion skinning.
• instant pose mirroring for symmetric poses in one click.
• Live Edit Mode to create, extend, and delete IK chains on the fly via simple hotkeys.
• generic rig support alongside humanoids - no avatar required.

Animation Events: Sound, VFX & Game Feel

Make your clips hit - straight from the timeline:

• Audio Events - footsteps, whooshes, impacts. Backed by a full SFX pipeline: audio library, channels, mixer routing, voice limiting, cooldowns, and playback probability.
• Spawn Events - instantiate particle effects, props, or world-space UI at the character root, any bone, or a world offset. Lifetime, parenting, rotation, and scale included.
• Feel support - trigger MMF_Player feedbacks (screen shake and friends) on spawned prefabs, instantly or delayed. Auto-detected, zero hard dependency.
• live preview while scrubbing - sounds play, particles simulate, and gizmos show exactly what fires where, both in the orbit preview and in Pose Edit Mode.
• setup diagnostics telling you precisely what's missing instead of failing silently.

Preview & Organize

• animated thumbnails in high resolution, generated through an async, disk-cached pipeline.
• automatic character matching - preview characters are paired to clips for you.
• filtering by character, root motion, and custom rulesets.

Compare & Refine

• Multi-Compare ghost mode overlays clips so you can refine timing and poses against each other.
• orbit preview renderer and scene sync keep everything visible exactly how you need it.

Export & Integrate

• FBX export for animation clips, including a built-in retargeting pipeline.
• Asset Inventory integration and support for external sources keep the tool connected to the rest of your project.

And more

• clip versioning - events included.
• redesigned Animator Controller inspector showing every prefab and scene object using a controller.
• searchable hierarchical bone picker.
• timeline range limiter.
• community feedback hub, built right in.

Versions

• Lite (Free) - distributed as compiled DLLs only.
• Pro - includes full source code access.

👉 Animation Workbench Pro: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/animation-workbench-347928

Links

• 📖 Documentation: https://docs.playmations.com
• 💬 Discord (support queries & feature requests): https://discord.gg/KzUqppKfTH

Any ideas for improvement? Contact me on Discord: Cornysan#2687