---
license: other
license_name: per-asset-cc0-or-cc-by
license_link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/fernandotonon/QtMeshEditor-motion-corpus/blob/main/ATTRIBUTION.md
tags:
  - motion
  - animation
  - 3d
  - rigged
  - skeletal-animation
  - text-to-motion
  - qtmesheditor
pretty_name: QtMeshEditor Motion Corpus
---

# QtMeshEditor Motion Corpus

A **permissively-licensed animated-humanoid corpus**: rigged 3D characters
with skeletal animation clips, harvested for
[QtMeshEditor](https://github.com/fernandotonon/QtMeshEditor)'s text-to-motion
v2 work ([epic #837](https://github.com/fernandotonon/QtMeshEditor/issues/837))
— the template clip library and the training set for a from-scratch
flow-matching motion model.

**Every asset is CC0 or CC-BY** — nothing here derives from Mixamo, LAFAN1,
Bandai-Namco, AMASS/HumanML3D, or game rips (all license-poisoned for
commercial redistribution). That makes this corpus — and anything trained on
it — redistributable, including commercially, with the attributions in
[`ATTRIBUTION.md`](ATTRIBUTION.md).

## Layout

```
manifest.json          per-asset provenance: source, source_url, title,
                       author, license, tags, files, and a validation record
                       (bone count, animation names, vertex count) produced
                       by the editor's own loader (`qtmesh info --json`)
ATTRIBUTION.md         CC-BY credits — ship this with derived works
raw/packs/...          Quaternius CC0 animated packs (FBX)
raw/opengameart/...    OpenGameArt CC0/CC-BY rigs (mixed formats)
raw/sketchfab/...      Sketchfab CC0/CC-BY downloads (glTF), when present
```

`manifest.json` also records **discovery-only** rows (license-cleared
Sketchfab models not yet downloaded) — their `source_url` can be fetched with
the scraper below.

## Reproducing / extending

The corpus is produced by
[`scripts/scrape-motion-corpus.py`](https://github.com/fernandotonon/QtMeshEditor/blob/master/scripts/scrape-motion-corpus.py)
(license-filtered discovery + download + validation; incremental manifest):

```
python3 scripts/scrape-motion-corpus.py --out motion_corpus --packs \
    --opengameart "animated character" \
    --sketchfab "walk animation,run animation"   # SKETCHFAB_API_TOKEN to download
```

Re-running against this dataset's directory merges new finds into the
manifest instead of overwriting it.

## Provenance & licensing

Per-asset license and author live in `manifest.json`; the license filter
accepts only CC0-1.0, CC-BY-3.0 and CC-BY-4.0 (exact-label matching — no
NonCommercial/NoDerivs/ShareAlike variants). If you redistribute the corpus
or ship anything derived from it (clip libraries, model weights), include
`ATTRIBUTION.md`.