Credits
Checked 11 October 2026. The full list, with every licence text, is in the studio under Credits.
Photos and videos
Photos and videos from Pexels. The stills and clips in the studio and the photos on this website come from Pexels, under the Pexels licence.
Some photos and film clips in the studio come from Wikimedia Commons. Each keeps its own credit and licence, and the studio adds the credit to the caption of every post that uses it.
Human motion
The figures in the studio's animations move with motion-capture data:
Human motion: CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database (mocap.cs.cmu.edu; created with funding from NSF EIA-0196217). The 100STYLE Dataset by Ian Mason, Sebastian Starke and Taku Komura, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). ACCAD Open Motion Project, The Ohio State University, CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). Retargeted and edited for our figures.
- The 100STYLE Dataset: CC BY 4.0
- ACCAD Open Motion Project: CC BY 3.0
- CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database: free for all uses. Thank you.
Changes: projected to a 2D side view, scaled to our figures, resampled, contacts pinned and loops cut. The clips are not the original captures.
Fonts
This website is set in Big Shoulders (licence) and Newsreader (licence). All 115 fonts in the studio, these two among them, are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, as published in the Google Fonts repository.
Voice, speech and face models
These run in the user's browser.
- The AI voice: Kokoro-82M by hexgrad and kokoro-js by hexgrad and Xenova, Apache-2.0. Its browser build includes eSpeak NG, which is under the GPL-3.0-or-later.
- Transcripts: OpenAI's Whisper through transformers.js (Apache-2.0) and ONNX Runtime Web (MIT).
- Face grouping: face-api (MIT), TensorFlow.js (Apache-2.0), the dlib face recognition model (public domain) and BlazeFace (Apache-2.0).
Code
- The studio: Mediabunny (MPL-2.0), fflate (MIT), heic-to with libheif and libde265 (LGPL-3.0), and drawing helpers adapted from cth9191/animate (MIT).
- This website: GSAP 3.15.0 by GreenSock, loaded from jsDelivr, under the GSAP Standard License.