Jonathan Jarvis

Building @getcartwheel. Previously, Google. Also Universal Patterns. Love animation, diagrams & explainers.

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Cartwheel is live! Animate 3D characters easier & faster than ever before. Even if you’ve never done it before, give it a try 🤸

We used it to make our launch video

[Andrew Carr 🤸 @andrew_n_carr]

The term "markerless" gets thrown around a lot in motion capture. What does it mean? Well...surprise! There are still markers (we put them on you instead of you getting in a suit)

When we capture motion from your videos, we still need to estimate important landmarks, we've just built a way to do it on a web camera instead of a $100k mocap stage.

Multi person + scale aware with extremely good camera pose estimation.

Try it out and let me know what you think

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

We're getting close......

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Ever wanted a mascot for your company?

Well, now you can have one 🦜

I'm proud to announce the launch of our latest product: Mascot.

Drive your character with video (of yourself, or your ideal spokesperson ;)

And it only takes a few minutes for each post. It's live now on @getcartwheel 💥💥

[Andrew Carr 🤸 @andrew_n_carr]

1000 hours of human motion made this happen. Want 10k hrs? 🤸🤸🤸

[Andrew Carr 🤸 @andrew_n_carr]

Just a few months after releasing Scoot, which we feel redefined motion generation quality, our team has made substantial improvements in speed, quality, subtlety, and instruction following.

This comes in concert with our newly scaled data collection and labeling efforts, compute increase, substantial architectural improvements, and more stable / scalable training dynamics.

Swing is our new flagship movement model. It's live today in Cartwheel studio with infinite batch generation coming soon to our API.

Treating Movement as a fundamentally new data type has really unlocked our ability to rapidly make improvements. As it turns out there are far more use cases than you might imagine from entertainment to robotics.

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Nice work @ikhandle and @getcartwheel ⛳️

[ikhandle @ikhandle]

🎬 Try this animation workflow

Tested @getcartwheel in a film-style pipeline and it moved fast
I was able to block this animation in ONE day, share early passes, get quick feedback from friends, and check how the performance held up on another rig — without slowing things down.

Excited to use this more on personal projects. Been a while since I made animations like this!

🎨 Rendering / Comp / Lighting: @SPRWtv - Ethan Du Toit
🧍 Rig: Ramon Arango
🎥 Animation: Charles Icay

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Our new text-to-3D-motion model hot off the GPUs. It’s a major improvement and far more accurate 🤸

[Andrew Carr 🤸 @andrew_n_carr]

New model hot off the GPUs, in testing, has substantially improved expressivity in text-to-motion generation.

"alternate arms swinging across your body loosely"

[Andrew Carr 🤸 @andrew_n_carr]

New model hot off the GPUs, in testing, has substantially improved expressivity in text-to-motion generation.

"alternate arms swinging across your body loosely"

[Andrew Carr 🤸 @andrew_n_carr]

I'm proud that our first professional use case of video to motion is with Dogstar and Emmy award winning director Mark Andrews.

[Cartwheel @getcartwheel]

Introducing Cartwheel’s most powerful tool yet: Video-to-Animation!

Upload any video and turn it into rigged 3D animation, ready for Maya, Unreal, or Blender. Not a filter. Not a video effect. Real, editable animation you can apply to any character rig

https://t.co/SOaXi1s6Nn

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Our most powerful tool yet: Video-to-3D animation! We've been teasing this feature for some time now and it's finally ready for you.

This isn't just another video generator or meme tool. It's real, editable 3D animation from a single video source — like your phone or a video off social media. You can apply it to any character rigs in your pipeline or use with generative video tools.

It's professional quality, fast, free, and most importantly — easy and intuitive!

Try it now at: https://t.co/fXlw9xJeS4

Let me know your feedback!

#maya #blender #unrealengine #3danimation #animation #AIart

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

This is a truly modern 3D animation workflow: incredibly fast with complete control 🤸

[Cartwheel @getcartwheel]

Cartwheel for Previs? In tutorial we show how to use Cartwheel + Unreal 5.6 for prototyping and previs.

Goal: Starting with an idea, create a cinematic pitch in an afternoon. Join along and try it out.

Watch the Full Tutorial:
https://t.co/XKvXtPudNO

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

A little taste of all the amazing motions to come soon to our motion library and generative models 🤸

[Cartwheel @getcartwheel]

🚶‍♀️ Walk cycles have landed in Cartwheel! A growing collection of seamless, high-quality walk cycles are live today in the Cartwheel motion library. Come take a stroll! 🏃‍♂️✨

https://t.co/SOaXi1sECV

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Cartwheel is live and out of beta!
We raised a $10 million seed round.
We welcomed senior Pixar animators to the team.

And we spoke to @Variety about it!

https://t.co/LvUInwJ3xA

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Another animation made in a one (rainy) day using @getcartwheel! 💥💥

[Cartwheel @getcartwheel]

Soggy shoes, splashes of fun!

A quick Animation Lab test, made in a day with Cartwheel

What will you animate? Join our beta at https://t.co/SOaXi1sECV

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

The first 3D motion our prototype generated well was a cartwheel, and that's why we named the company Cartwheel.

Thanks @justworks for making this great vignette about our team at @getcartwheel !🤸

[Justworks @justworks]

"I trusted Justworks to handle all the different state regulations, filing, insurance requirements, and tax withholdings. I never have to worry about it. That's the best part."

@JonathanJarvis, Founder/CEO of @getcartwheel, a #JustworksSmallBusiness since 2023. Cartwheel helps creators generate animations from scratch. https://t.co/l64i6TNikA
#EveryBusinessStartsSmall

[Jeffrey Dates @kungfukoi]

Today I got to try out @getcartwheel 's Generative AI text-to-motion for 3D animation. I simply prompted: "Sneaking through a haunted house" and Cartwheel gave me variations of motion, and this is the one I downloaded straight into Unreal. Pretty neat! https://t.co/BrpXQOxCsb

[Richard Masa @RichardMasaArt]

GM
Let the #Bullrun2025 begin! 🤘
🔊sound on

[Cartwheel @getcartwheel]

👋 Maya users! Improved exporting from Cartwheel is here.

We recently pushed an improved Maya IK download format, resolving any flipped or reverse joints.

Your rigging process just got a whole lot smoother! 🙌