---
title: "What is Chaos Anima"
canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ANIMA/124488347/What%20is%20Chaos%20Anima"
format: markdown
---
Human characters in 3D scenes are becoming more important than ever in visualizations, animations, and illustrations. Character animation is a very specialized area and because of its complexity, most of this type of work is time-consuming and traditionally restricted to very advanced users or specialists, leaving virtually no access for the majority of users, but now **Anima **changes all of that!



**Anima** is the **simplest** and **fastest **stand-alone character animation application developed especially for architects and designers. It is perfect for quickly and easily creating stunning 3D animations in very little time. Our motion editing tools and high-quality content makes it easy and affordable to add 3D character animation to a visualization project, and allows creative artists to tackle demanding animation-intensive projects.

We have designed Anima to slash production time on 3D human character animation for **architectural visualizations** and other virtual productions that replicate real-life situations like **Virtual Reality scenes** or **set extensions** for **VFX** films.

Includes high-quality interactive visualization within the 3D Viewport and an intuitive toolset for creating blazing-fast simulations that can be played in real-time with hundreds of actors.

It is **very easy to learn** and makes it fit in your current workflow. Using our native plugins and our [Alive](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ANIMA/pages/124355890) connection you can get your animations into your favorite professional 3D modeling & rendering package with just **one click**!

With **Anima** you will have access in a really affordable and practical way to the **new ****[4D digital human](https://docs-chaos.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ANIMA/pages/125108410)**** models** which use the most groundbreaking technology to create **digitally scanned moving humans** that **feel absolutely real**. Our new **4d** state-of-the-art technology is capable of fitting 30 seconds of detailed animation into only 200-400 Mb of disk space instead of the original 5-8 Gb. **AXYZ **has developed this amazing **lossless compression** format after almost a year of R&D to let everybody **cross the uncanny valley** for the first time with a simple **drag-and-drop workflow**.