Animation Sizzle Reel 2021: creators using real-time animation today
Create. Iterate. Collaborate. In real time.
Unity brings real-time workflows to animation content creators – speeding up traditional pipelines and giving artists, producers, and directors more opportunities for creative freedom, fast feedback, and artistic iteration on a flexible platform. With Unity, real-time production is a reality.
Real timesavers for every artist in the studio
Integrate with your DCCs of choice
Exchange models, animations, cameras, lighting, and FX between Unity and most digital content creation tools. With Alembic, USD, and FBX workflows, you can work in real-time with the same formats as your asset pipeline and use the right file for any job.
Render beautiful visuals
Cinematic shots are in reach, even in real time. Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) puts professional lookdev and VFX tools in your artists’ hands, like physically based rendering, real-time ray tracing, visual shader creation, and next-level effects simulations.
Animate and edit with familiar toolsets
Control, experiment, and perfect how lights, cameras, and action come together in a scene. By orchestrating timing, angles, movements, and cues in real-time with the flexibility of Unity’s editing and sequencing tools, artists can bring their creations to life without coding.
Record final frames as fast as you watch them
You don’t have to wait for a render farm to deliver high-resolution video clips, validate image sequences, and easily generate multiple versions of your content. Get dailies out faster, shorten review cycles, or export for compositing, all with Unity’s lightning-fast recording tools.
Verified Solutions Partners
These solutions have been proven to offer direct value to Unity customers creating media and entertainment, and are verified to comply with Unity’s latest releases. The VSP process ensures third-party SDKs, plug-ins, editor applications, cloud services, and more are compatible with Unity.
MiddleVR
MiddleVR is a flexible and intuitive software tool for multi-display, stereoscopy, and cluster rendering with Unity, allowing you to create advanced real-time applications for complex graphics systems including virtual stages.
OnSet Facilities
GODBOX® is the low-latency computing platform that’s used by Unity developers and artists to create and interact with spatial, virtual, and real-world data, in near real-time.
“Working in Unity’s real-time engine allowed me to give feedback and visually see changes on the spot. This frees up time to focus on story or other aspects of production.”
“Production-wise, we dramatically reduced render time, which is now practically real-time. Unity also allowed us to streamline our workflow, reducing iterations and resources.”
“We can create lots of content quickly while retaining high quality owing to reduced render times and a shortened feedback cycle – we can show clients changes in real-time.”
“We learned as we went and at first it took a few weeks to get the environment to the quality we needed. Now we can create a full 11-minute episode every week!”
"I love the fact that I can touch every facet of audiovisual storytelling in one place, at the same time. The simplest way to describe working in Unity is pure creation.”
“Unity’s greatest asset is giving creators the flexibility to explore ideas and visuals in the blink of an eye. It opens up a world where exploration and play result in a better product.”
“Unity is a dream. The flexibility in Unity enables savvy artists to realize ideas that would be logistically prohibitive in other engines.”
Start learning
Create a sequence
This short introductory learning experience will guide you through the Cinematic Studio Sample. Follow the tutorials to use some of Unity’s key cinematic features.
Online courses
Start small and learn at your own pace with our Learn Premium courses for any creator in your pipeline. From animation and rigging to how to work with a Timeline, all your artists and TDs can begin adding real-time production to their toolkits.
Professional film training workshops
This onsite, hands-on workshop taught by our certified Master Trainers guarantees your team will get ramped up and comfortable using Unity quickly, with session content tailored to your studio’s needs.
Real-time filmmaking, explained
One of the biggest differences in using a real-time workflow is that all departments are able to begin work immediately, simultaneously, and (most importantly) collaboratively.
Sherman animation project
Download this fully loaded Unity project file to your high-end graphics-capable workstation, and learn how to set up your own multi-user episodic animation project in real-time. Get a sophisticated 3D environment with multiple characters (including one using our new fur shader), examples of how to structure your scenes, workflow tools, and full set-ups for lighting and post-processing in Unity.
Cinematics project template
Download a cinematic scene from Mich-L, an animation short produced by our friends at Plip ! Animation and Studio Manette, and get started on creating your own animation with Unity. In this lightweight project, you’ll use features including Sequences, Recorder, Timeline, and Cinemachine – the foundations for cinematic creation.
The making of a scene
Get the low-down on how the Sherman animated Unity demo was made. Part 1 covers the short’s creation, animation blocking, lookdev, and camera layout. Part 2 explores using Alembic for character animations, Visual FX Graph, and the fur implementation. Part 3 teaches you everything you need to know to get started with real-time cinematic lighting.
