What if building 500 characters took less time than building one?With Popul8 Express, it can.

Popul8 Express is the fastest way to create and dress thousands of 3D characters, fully optimized and ready for your game engine.

You bring one base model, Popul8 Express takes care of the rest:

• Automatically generate hundreds of unique characters from a single base model
• Instantly fit clothing, hair, and accessories to any body shape
• Export game-ready assets that match your technical specifications and are compatible with Unity, Unreal, or any 3D pipeline

No more manual tweaking. No more time lost.

Just import your template, Popul8 Express does the rest.

What can you do with Popul8 Express?

Generate crowds in minutes

Need 100 or 10,000 characters? Popul8 Express creates large, diverse populations, consistent in quality, varied in shape, and ready to use.

Fit clothing and accessories to any body shape

Whether it’s one new character or a thousand, Popul8 Express automatically adapts all your assets, garments, grooms, gear without manual work.

Export clean, optimized assetsGame-Ready Assets

Unity, Unreal, whatever you use, Popul8 Express delivers engine-ready files that match your topology, rig, and naming conventions.

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Your specifications. Your topology. Your characters. Your assets.

🛠️ How it works

1. Import your template - Start with a base character model, your topology, your rig, your style.
2. Create Shape Variations - Use Popul8 Express Shape Editor or import shapes from external tools to define diverse body types, silhouettes, or identity-based looks.
3. Upload your assets - Upload your deformables (garments, hairstyles, accessories), or animations, Popul8 Express will make them usable across all character variations.
4. Generate collections (Crowds / NPC) - Quickly build groups of NPCs, background characters, or fully styled main characters, all aligned with your template specs.
5. Export to engine - Bridge to Unity or Unreal and start working immediately with clean, ready-to-animate assets.

Why it matters

Your characters. Your pipeline. At scale.

• Let your artists focus on creative decisions, not file prep or cleanup.
• Let your tools scale with your ambition.

Built for speed. Designed for scale.

• Popul8 Express gives you scalability without extra work.
• What once took days, now takes minutes.
• Perfect for teams working on games, simulations, cinematics or interactive experiences that require diversity, consistency and speed.

Ready to get started?

The first step is simple:Import your template character, a 3D model with your desired topology and rig.

Need help?

• Start with: Installing Popul8 Express
• Or jump right in and start building your first crowd.

Let your tools scale with your ambition, and your production catch up with your vision.