Kinetix's Text2Emote enables people to create emojis with text prompts.
Kinetix's Text2Emote enables people to create emojis with text prompts.
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Kinetix launches text-to-animation AI for new era in user-generated content

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Kinetix, the AI startup bringing emotes to video games and virtual worlds, has announced Text2Emotes, a generative AI technology that heralds a new era of user-generated gaming content (UGC).

The Paris-based company enables anyone to create 3D animations and emotes for games – from nothing more than a simple text prompt.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.