Terms of use

The short version: share only what you made, and be clear about whether others may use it. The rest of this page says what that means if something goes wrong.

1. What this is

A place to share animation clips made with the Animation Workbench, run by the operator named in the legal notice. It is free. It is not a marketplace: nothing is sold here, and no money changes hands.

Reading, watching and downloading a clip as FBX or GLB need no account. Taking a clip as .awclip for the Animation Workbench, uploading, commenting, liking, collecting, following and reporting need one, and an account is created by signing in with Discord, GitHub or Google. One person, one account – if you use more than one of them, connect them to the same account under Your account.

You have to be 16 or older to sign in, because an account here means a public profile with your name on it. This applies whichever account you sign in with, even if that provider lets younger people in. If you are under 18, your parent or guardian has to agree to these terms.

2. What you may upload

Only animation you made yourself. Not clips from asset packs, motion libraries, Mixamo, other games, or other people – and editing someone else’s clip does not make it yours.

Before each upload you confirm a declaration that says exactly this. The Workbench checks what it can recognise and blocks an upload when it finds a foreign origin, but the check is a help, not a permission: a clip that passes it is not thereby yours.

Also not allowed: motion built to harass or demean a real person, and anything unlawful.

Starter clips are the one exception to “made yourself”. The clips under the Starter Clips account were not made by a community member: the operator added them from public collections released under CC0, so there is something here from the start, and each one names its source on its page. Like every public clip, they are CC0.

3. Public or private – what you are choosing

Public puts the clip under CC0 1.0. You give up your rights in it as far as the law allows: anyone may use, change and pass it on, including commercially, and nobody has to credit you. Where a law does not let you give a right up entirely, CC0 grants everyone the same freedom as a licence instead. This cannot be withdrawn. Deleting the clip here takes it off the portal; it does not undo CC0 for copies people already have. Your name still stands on the clip and on your profile here – as a courtesy, not as a condition.

Private keeps the clip to yourself. Only you see it, signed in: it is not in the catalogue or the search, and its link opens it for nobody else. Because it is stored on this server, the operator can reach it too, and looks at it only to answer a takedown request or where the law requires it. A private clip grants no rights to anyone.

4. What you allow the operator to do

To show and deliver your clip at all, the operator needs a few rights from you: to store it, to display it on the portal and in the Animation Workbench, to hand it to people who download it, to generate previews from it, and to offer it as FBX or GLB. That permission is non-exclusive, worldwide, free of charge, and limited to running this portal. It exists for as long as the clip is here.

Nothing beyond that. Your clip will not be used to advertise the Animation Workbench, sold on, or licensed to anyone else.

5. What you are promising

That you hold the rights to what you upload, and that sharing it here breaks no one else’s rights. If someone makes a claim against the operator because of a clip you uploaded, you cover the reasonable costs of dealing with it – unless you were not at fault.

6. Reports, removal, and what follows

Anyone can report a clip, and a rights holder can use the takedown form without an account. A reported clip is hidden immediately, before anyone has looked at it. That is deliberate: it is better for a clip to be briefly invisible than for an infringing one to stay up over a weekend.

The operator then looks at it and either restores it or removes it. You are told which, and why. If you think the decision is wrong, write to the address in the legal notice; it will be looked at again by a person.

A removed clip counts as a strike against the account. Three strikes suspend it. Uploading the same clip again after removal is blocked. Reports that turn out to be knowingly false are noted against the reporting account.

The community rules spell out what is expected. They are part of these terms.

7. Comments and other things you write

You can write comments under a clip, a bio on your profile, and titles and descriptions for your collections. What you write is yours; by posting it you allow the operator to show it on the portal and in the Animation Workbench, for as long as it is there. Keep it about the work – the community rules say what that means, and they apply to all of it.

A reported comment is hidden immediately, exactly like a reported clip, and the same review follows. The clip itself stays visible: a single sentence is not a reason to take down someone else's animation. You can delete your own comment at any time, and edit it within the first 15 minutes. Deleting sets it invisible; the text is kept so that a report about it can still be looked at afterwards.

8. Availability

This is a free service run by one person. It can be down, and it can stop. There is no guaranteed uptime. If the portal is ever shut down for good, that will be announced with enough notice to fetch your clips – and your clips are in your Unity project anyway, which is where they came from.

There is a kill switch: uploads and downloads can be switched off at short notice, for instance during an attack or a legal dispute. The portal then says so instead of failing silently.

9. Liability

The operator is liable without limit for injury to life, body or health, and for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence. For slight negligence, liability exists only where an obligation is breached that is essential to this agreement, and then only up to the damage typically foreseeable for a free service of this kind. Liability under the Produkthaftungsgesetz is unaffected.

Clips here come from other users. The operator does not check them in advance and does not warrant that a clip is free of third-party rights.

10. Ending it

You can delete your clips and your account at any time. The operator may suspend an account that repeatedly breaks these terms, and may remove clips that break them. Records of removals and moderation decisions stay – see Privacy.

11. Changes

These terms can change. Changes that affect you are announced on the portal before they take effect, and the wording of the upload declaration carries a version number that the Workbench checks: if it has moved, the Workbench asks you to read the new text before it uploads anything.

12. Applicable law

German law applies. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in.