Cartwheel

Cartwheel is a generative motion platform for games, film & TV, advertising, and robotics. It gives creators a new way to animate 3D characters — turning ordinary video into clean, usable character motion (video-to-motion), and posing and rendering characters as images in any visual style. Cartwheel is delivered as a hosted web studio (studio.getcartwheel.com) with exportable animation formats for downstream 3D, game, film, and social pipelines. The product is in private beta and is backed by Accel, Craft Ventures, and Menlo Ventures. At this time Cartwheel exposes no public developer/REST API; this profile captures its public web, documentation, and security surface.

Cartwheel is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Animation, Generative AI, Motion Capture, and Character Animation.

Cartwheel’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.

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19.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyAnimationGenerative AIMotion CaptureCharacter Animation3DGamesFilm and TVCreative ToolsRobotics

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Composite quality — 19.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cartwheel
name: Cartwheel
description: Cartwheel is a generative motion platform for games, film & TV, advertising, and robotics. It gives creators
  a new way to animate 3D characters — turning ordinary video into clean, usable character motion (video-to-motion), and posing
  and rendering characters as images in any visual style. Cartwheel is delivered as a hosted web studio (studio.getcartwheel.com)
  with exportable animation formats for downstream 3D, game, film, and social pipelines. The product is in private beta and
  is backed by Accel, Craft Ventures, and Menlo Ventures. At this time Cartwheel exposes no public developer/REST API; this
  profile captures its public web, documentation, and security surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cartwheel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- craft-ventures
- menlo-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://getcartwheel.com/images/cartwheel-share.png
tags:
- Company
- Animation
- Generative AI
- Motion Capture
- Character Animation
- 3D
- Games
- Film and TV
- Creative Tools
- Robotics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://getcartwheel.com/home
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.getcartwheel.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.getcartwheel.com/docs/getting-started/introduction
- type: Blog
  url: https://docs.getcartwheel.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://discord.gg/TQS278evHH
- type: SignUp
  url: https://getcartwheel.com/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://getcartwheel.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://getcartwheel.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://getcartwheel.com/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/getcartwheel
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cartwheel-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cartwheel-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence