US Patent 11748931 Body animation sharing and remixing

Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a client device associated with a first user, a communication from a second user; retrieving, from the communication, a movement vector representing three-dimensional (3D) movement of a set of skeletal joints of the second user; receiving, by the client device associated with the first user, input that selects a 3D avatar; and animating, based on the movement vector, the 3D avatar to mimic the 3D movement of the set of skeletal joints of the second user.