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Mint Adds Feature to Rig and Animate 3D Models in About 10 Minutes

June 30, 2026 at 09:16 EDT

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The AI 3D generation tool "Mint" (mint.gg) has added a feature that rigs and animates 3D models in about 10 minutes. The maker touts that users "no longer need to spend painful hours rigging in Blender," emphasizing an end-to-end flow from generating 3D from text, images, or video all the way to adding animation.

Mint · AI 3D Generation

Rig & animate a 3D model in ~10 minutes

Mint adds automated rigging and animation to its text/image/video-to-3D pipeline — "no longer need to spend painful hours rigging in Blender." One seamless flow from generation to editing to motion to export.

~10 min

To rig & animate a generated model

High-quality assets from a single prompt

GLB

Direct import via Blender 4.2+ add-on

Rigging time: by hand vs. Mint

Each block ≈ 1 hour. Manual rigging took hours-to-days of specialist work.

Manual

hours → days

Mint

~10 minutes

End-to-end pipeline

Generate
text/image/video

→

Edit
Mint Studio

→

Rig & Animate
automated

→

Export
Blender/Unity/Unreal

Creator

$50/mo

60,000 credits

Pro

$100/mo

120,000 credits

Praise from early adopters

Relieves the pain of manual rigging
Greatly shortens the Blender workflow
Seamless flow from generation to animation

Still to verify

Variable generation quality & credit use
Add-on needs an internet connection
Rig accuracy on complex models

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