anima®4
ADD 3D PEOPLE AND CROWDS WITH FACIAL GESTURES AND CLOTHING MOVEMENTS TO YOUR CG SCENES!
anima® 4 is the people and crowd animation application developed specifically for architects and designers that will help you create amazing 3d animated people quickly and easily!
With anima® 4 3d people become human!
Compatible with all major 3D Software & Renders
Key Features of anima® 4
anima® 4 introduces a new and unique hyper-realistic 4d people animation system that includes facial gestures and clothing movements.
TRULY HUMANS
The new 4D Digital Humans are able to preserve every detail of the clothing and offer impressive facial animations. In addition, with the Ambient 3D characters you can populate the middle and front planes of a scene increasing the realism.
PHOTOREAL CROWDS AT THE CLICK OF A BUTTON!
anima® uses the same high-quality 3D people found in our metropoly® collections, so there’s no need to compromise on quality. Our actors are driven by real mocap data and a sophisticated AI engine with an automatic procedural motion to achieve super-realistic crowd animations.
STILL RENDERS & ANIMATIONS
Add life to your Archviz or any other visualization project! anima® brings up a toolset to easily populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.
DRAG & DROP
Get access to hundreds of realistic 3D Human assets and start populating your still rendering projects directly from 3ds Max®, Maya®, Cinema 4D®; and Unreal Engine 4® with a simple and intuitive interface.
RAMPS, STAIRS, ESCALATORS, MOVING WALKWAYS!
With its easy-to-use motion editing tools, anima® enables you to create actors that walk, run, navigate slopes, ride escalators, tackle moving walkways and climb stairs realistically. Whatever your scene’s topology, you can add crowd animated characters that explore every corner.
IRREGULAR TERRAIN
Thanks to anima®'s adaptive placement, area and walkway tools, crowd actors can walk, run and stand on nearly any surface. Just define an area and the actors are projected onto the background geometry. Press play and animations adapt automatically to the terrain for flawless integration.
CHARACTERS THAT STAND, SIT, CHEER AND MORE!
Fill scenes with standing and seated characters using an extensive range of animations, or import more from 3rd party sources. Characters can move from walkways to fixed areas to socialize.
YOUR OWN CHARACTERS AND MOTIONS
Users are not limited to the bundled content. Using anima®'s crowd editing tools it’s easy to import and use 3rd party rigged characters and motion capture data.
NATIVE PLUGINS FOR 3DS MAX, MAYA, CINEMA 4D AND UE4!
Work seamlessly with your favorite 3D modeling and rendering tool within a few clicks. Our native plugins will import, manage and optimize textures and meshes while applying ready-to-render materials in just seconds!
TOP INDUSTRY STANDARD EXPORTERS
Import sophisticated and complex crowd animations with ease in your favorite 3D modeling through FBX, OpenCollada or V-Ray Scene formats with our built-in exporter!
EXPLORE REAL-TIME WITH UNREAL ENGINE!
Create mind-blowing unreal immersive experiences populated with realistic animated characters and discover human scale perception as you never did before!
anima® 4 Workflow
1. MODEL
Define walking surfaces, obstacles and collision geometries for your simulation directly in 3ds Max®, Maya® or Cinema 4D® and send them to anima® within a click while working and refining your visualization project animations!
2. GATHER
Populate your visualization projects either using anima® Stand-Alone to create complex crowd simulations, or accessing hundreds of realistic 3D Human directly from 3ds Max®, Maya®, Cinema 4D® and Unreal Engine® through anima® Drag & Drop panel.
3. SYNCHRONIZE
Through a solid live linking, anima® alive™ will automatically keep projects, geometries and cameras synchronized with 3ds Max®, Maya® and Cinema 4D® for a quick smooth workflow and perfect control of your crowd simulations and character placement
4. RENDER
anima® will convert and optimize Metropoly® Rigged, Ready-Posed or any third party 3D people model to output realistic images or animations using the most advanced renderers in the industry such as V-Ray, Corona, Octane, Arnold, Maxwell, and more!
anima® 4 Workflow Video Examples
INTRODUCTION | ANIMA® 4 PRO
USE CASE | EXTERIOR ARCHVIZ
LITE WORKFLOW | READY-POSED 3D PEOPLE
WORKFLOW | CREATING TIME-LAPSE EFFECTS
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metropoly®
3D PEOPLE FOR YOUR RENDERING PROJECTS
Add life to your Architectural Visualization projects and renders with metropoly® 3d People Characters. Compatible with 3ds Max®, Maya®, Cinema 4D®, Blender®, Unreal Engine®, Lightwave®, SketchUp®, Rhino® and anima® with support for the best renderers in the industry.
Stunning photo-scanned 3d people models!
Key Features of metropoly®
TECHNOLOGY AND CRAFTS
We work with passion combining technology and craftsmanship, a perfect union to obtain realistic 3D characters. Through the use of modern 3D photogrammetric scanning technologies and the craft work of our group of artists, we strive to make Metropoly 3d People near to perfection.
QUALITY MESHES
Our 3D human models are designed and optimized to offer the best performance during rendering, adding details where they are really needed. For our static models, we create meshes with about 40K polygons while the 3d characters for animation are retopologized to offer the best deformation during the animation and designed to be easily edited and modified.
TEXTURE MAPS
The high level of detail, the UV Layout, the optimization of the textures size and the color processing allow us to offer the best quality 3d people models with the best performance during the rendering process. Forget about the technical problems and spend your valuable time creating impressive images. It should be noted that each of the 3D characters includes multiple color variations for the clothing.
MATERIALS & SHADERS
To guarantee the highest quality results, our character library offers pre-built materials available for the most advanced rendering engines available in the market such as V-Ray, Corona, Octane, Redshift, Arnold, Maxwell, Thea, Cycles, EEVEE, F-Storm, Mental Ray and many other industry standards. Start creating spectacular architectural images full of life right now!
ANIMATION
Animate our rigged 3d People either using keyframe animation, mocap data or anima® population tool. Our animation software is the 3d people animation application developed specifically for architects and designers, ideal for creating amazing 3d animated people quickly and easily! With anima® you can populate your still renderings and animation videos using our 3D Scanned Metropoly® Ready-Posed and Metropoly® Rigged 3D Human models.
CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY
Our revolutionary and innovative metropoly® 4D Digital Humans character animation system, the 3D characters in your scenes will finally be perceived as truly human!
EASY-TO-USE
3D People are ready to be merged into your scenes to achieve photo-realistic entourage integrating with all modern tools and pipelines.
POPULAR FORMATS
Our 3d People models come in the most popular file formats such as 3ds Max®, Maya®, Cinema 4D®, Blender®, Sketchup®, Rhino®, Unreal®, Lightwave®. You do not need to deal with format conversions anymore!
COMPATIBLE WITH ANIMA®
Add life to your metropoly 3D People with anima® and manage texture resulutions, create infinite color variations, material styles and render them with your favourite rendering engine.
SCANNING TECHNOLOGY
Developed with scanning technology and using the world's most sophisticated photogrammetry rig, metropoly 3D People strive for perfection.
HIGH RESOLUTION TEXTURES
Distributed with amazing textures and normal maps developed by top-industry artists, you are guaranteed the highest quality results and the ultimate artistic experience.
OPTIMIZED GEOMETRIES
All 3D people are consistently topologized, UV-mapped with no hidden polygon faces and no visible cut seams. Our 3d people offer smooth shading in every angle reducing the need of post-production.
DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
All our 3d people models are available by Digital Download to guarantee the fastest access to products. Besides, you can always re-download your purchase.
SIMPLE LICENSING
Royalty free licence guarantees you the best possible in commercial and free renderings, prints, advertisements, web designs, films, presentations, editorials, online publications, and many more.
AWARD WINNING
We manufacture and market an award-winning line of 3D people models to accelerate your productivity while working on your architectural visualization, animation, games, virtual and augmented reality projects.