Licenses

LAST UPDATED: OCTOBER 2026

Animatica is built on open source, and parts of Animatica are open source themselves. This page lists the licences that cover the typeface and the software we use and ship, and the terms that cover the plugins.

1. Fonts

Barlow, by Jeremy Tribby, is used across this site and the app under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The licence permits use, modification and redistribution of the typeface, including in commercial work, provided the font files themselves are not sold on their own.

2. Open source in this site and app

The website and the web app are built on Next.js, React and Tailwind CSS, all under the MIT License, alongside a number of smaller MIT- and BSD-licensed packages. The authoritative list of what we depend on, with versions, is the project’s package.json. If you need a full attribution list for compliance purposes, write to hello@animatica.ai and we will send one.

3. Animatica open source

The MMCP protocol (the motion model context protocol our plugins speak) and the Animatica backbone that implements it are released under the Apache License 2.0 at github.com/animatica-ai. That licence lets you run, modify and self-host the backbone, including commercially, subject to its notice and patent terms.

4. The plugins’ licences, in summary

This is a plain summary of the plugin licences, not the full text.

The free plugins. Animatica Choreographer for Blender is free, and its code is licensed under the GNU GPL, as Blender requires. The Motion Builder and 3ds Max plugins are free to use for personal or commercial work; you may not redistribute, resell, sublicense or publish them, and you may not reverse engineer them except so far as the law says that right cannot be excluded.

Marionette, one user. A Marionette licence is a one-time purchase, from animatica.ai or a reseller we have authorised. It is personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable. One user may install Marionette on the machines they control and use it for personal or commercial work.

Updates and your version. It covers every version released in the 12 months after purchase. When they end you keep the right to use the last of those versions, for as long as you like; renewing updates is optional.

The code and the pose model. Marionette’s code is licensed under the GNU GPL, as Blender requires. The pose model inside it is not part of that code and ships under its own model licence: you may use it only as the add-on loads and runs it inside Blender, on computers you own or control, and not in other software. You may not redistribute, convert or fine-tune it, train other models with it or the poses it makes, or offer it as a service. The poses, animation and renders you make with it are yours.

Plans that include it. Pro paid yearly includes a Marionette licence on these same terms; Teams includes one for each seat while the subscription lasts. Animatica Cloud is governed by the Terms of Service, and the plugins work with your own MMCP server too.