Ready Player Me Avatar Customization Support ending

Much to our surprise and disappointment, our custom avatar partner, Ready Player Me, is shutting down on January 31, 2026. They’ve been acquired by Netflix and Netflix apparently does not want to continue to host the avatar creation and downloading service.

Rest assured however, that all of your existing custom avatars that you have downloaded from Ready Player Me into a Movie Maker 3D project will continue to work as before.

If you have any custom avatars on the readyplayer.me site, you should download those before the 31st into either a Movie Maker 3D project (or if you’re proficient with .glb files, you can save them to a file folder on your device). 

What is going to change with the shutdown is that you won’t be able to Customize any of your existing avatars or create new custom avatars via the built-in Ready Player Me avatar editor since the editor is hosted on the readyplayer.me site which is shutting down. 

If you’d like to create your own custom avatars, we can recommend Vroid Studio for custom anime-style characters. Here is a blog post we wrote with more info on this: https://moviemaker3d.com/blog/2024/9/13/anime

Again, our apologies for this disappointing loss of features in Movie Maker 3D. We’re looking for alternatives and will let you know when we find a new avatar partner. Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Len & Mary Ellen

Movie Maker 3D 11.9 Now Available

We're excited to announce a new version of Movie Maker 3D!

To celebrate the update, get the new Playroom template including 1 scene and 35 3D models FREE for a limited time! And to celebrate the holiday season, you can also get the Christmas Eve, Hanukkah and New Year’s Eve templates FREE for a limited time. All usually available only with a Movie Maker 3D Plus subscription.

This update includes usability enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements, including:

• Support the new Liquid Glass user interface in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26.

• New 3D models: Astro Buddy, Bed Pillow, Bookcase, Donkey, Giraffe, Ice Hockey Skates, Scarf, Snowball, Telephone Booth, Unicorn

• New 3D avatars: Maddy, Tim

• New movie template: Playroom

• Size reductions for Scarlett Macaw, Magnolia and Daisy models.

• On macOS: Customize and Add interfaces are in a panel instead of a popup window to better utilize the larger screens on Macs.

• Animations in a 3D scene start immediately when recording a scene for the first time.

• Instagram Stories sharing fixed to work with recent Instagram API changes.

• Forward and Back arrow keys work better when Moving a 3D model.

• Various crashes fixed.

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New Liquid Glass UI on iPadOS 26

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New Liquid Glass UI on macOS 26

Movie Maker 3D is a free app and includes 25 free scene templates and 415 free 3D models for you to try. Upgrade to Movie Maker 3D Plus to get unlimited use of ALL 78 scene templates and ALL 737 3D models!

No sign-ups, passwords, tracking or ads. None of your data in 3D Movie Maker 3D is ever retained by or visible to our company. All of your data is only on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or in your iCloud account.

If you need help or have any questions please contact us at support@moviemaker3d.com.

Mary Ellen & Len

Why is the next update taking so long?

We’ve been working on Movie Maker 3D 11.9 since July and due to a number of factors the going has been slow. Apple updated iOS, iPadOS and MacOS with a new design called Liquid Glass. The update fundamentally changed Movie Maker 3D without warning essentially making it unusable. The app looked bad and the iOS and MacOS updates seemed rushed out because there were so many OS bugs that we had to work around.

Problems & issues due to Liquid Glass UI in iOS and macOS 26.x include:

• Interface Builder menus no longer supported (crash), so ALL app menus must be implemented and translated with code.

• macOS bug causes all pop-up panels to crash when initiated via a toolbar button.

• Many UI layout problems due to changes in button sizes, non-useable area sizes, toolbar and navigation bars, etc.

• Liquid Glass adds translucent backgrounds in random parts of UI that look bad.

• macOS video player buttons are non-functional (grayed out) if it’s initialized without a video file URL (not previously required nor required on iOS).

• macOS Save Files dialog crashes all the time.

• SwiftUI popup menus crash when added to a navigation bar, requiring recoding using UIKit. 

• App tint colors no longer work unless set on main Window during app launch, causing many buttons to be unreadable.

Well-known iOS and macOS app developer Steve Troughton-Smith posted this on November 18 about the difficulties of supporting Liquid Glass: “If you haven't been able to ship your iOS/macOS 26 update yet and have been feeling bad about it, just remember: Apple still hasn't shipped iWork with Liquid Glass, and Apple also opted all its pro apps out of Liquid Glass.”

We’re hoping to get our update out very soon! Thanks for your patience.

Len & Mary Ellen