Animations magic professional#

In this post, we’ll introduce eleven of the best free animation libraries that can support you in creating professional animations in just a few clicks.īefore we jump into our favorite libraries, we’ll first explore what animation is and why it’s becoming such a key skill for today’s UI designers. An animation library is an online, third-party, open-source repository that contains pre-made animation files.

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“When I founded TRICK 3D, the idea was to have a virtual studio and stay flexible enough to work with artists from all around the world,” says Chad “The pipeline we built for The Jolliest Elf using Unreal has brought that to full fruition.If you want to incorporate animation into your designs, animation libraries are a great resource to have on your radar. When COVID-19 is a distant memory, TRICK 3D will still be taking advantage of the remote working capabilities it has experienced with Unreal Engine. “Because of the pandemic, we’ve been able to get some veterans who would probably not normally be available, but are lending their time to the short,” says Stacy Shade, Head of Studio for TRICK 3D. With a set up that enabled remote collaboration, the studio was able to cast its net for animators forced to work from home because of lockdowns, bring on board The Jolliest Elf‘s animation supervisor Tony Plett ( Jurassic World, Lilo & Stitch) and creative producer Art David ( The Matrix, Signs). “It’s an empowering feeling to see the teams work all come together on a regular basis.” “Unreal allowed us to have a team working in the same project and then bring all those changes back into one master project every day,” explains Chad.

The studio moved all of its server infrastructure to the cloud and leveraged source control in Unreal Engine so the team could easily share files from all around the world. “What we did a bit differently was to fully embrace the idea of a virtual studio,” says Chad. Production on The Jolliest Elf began just as COVID-19 was shutting everything down-but real-time workflows enabled the studio to weather the storm.

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Like many studios in the film and TV industry, this year's pandemic forced TRICK 3D to rethink team collaboration. “Real-time allows me as a creator to see decisions much more quickly, and artists to see how their work fits into the whole as part of the iterative process.” “Animation is a very rigid process where most of the creative attached to the story needs to be locked in before you see any final frames,” says Chad.

TRICK 3D has far more flexibility now that real-time technology is the backbone of its animation workflow. Real-time technology for a flexible workflow What you see in The Jolliest Elf came straight out of Unreal,” explains Chad. “We exported the final to Premiere for a few simple edits, but we didn’t do any additional compositing or color correction. Once the models and character animations were in the engine, everything stayed there. The team created and animated the models in Maya before exporting Alembic into Unreal Engine. Our entire show, from set, characters, animations, fur, visual effects-it all lived in our project file that was straight from Unreal on a laptop.” “This really could not have been done without Unreal. “I particularly loved working in Sequencer-it’s like a three-dimensional video editor-I don’t know of anything like it,” says Chad.

The team also used Unreal Engine’s real-time ray tracing, Groom system for fur, and Sequencer to set up a camera system that mimics a live-action competition show. Our Lil’ Rey performance was captured by a nine-year-old on her dad’s iPhone in a totally different part of the country.”

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“And secondly, we can provide these tools to bring in voices to collaborate with who don’t have to be experts in software or hardware. Firstly, I or an animator can put on a suit and use an iPhone to capture and develop ideas so much quicker than just using controllers in the software,” he continues. “It allows two specific things one, more immediate and individual expression in animation, and two, more broad and accessible collaboration,” says Chad. With crew and talent able to use mocap suits and facial capture technology wherever they are-even from their own homes-a whole new way of filmmaking is now possible.