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Real-time Production Is Revolutionizing Traditional Animation

We anticipate that real-time animation, already widely used for previs and various other stages of production, will in 2021 be more widely adopted for producing final animation.

Although this production methodology is still in its infancy, we are already seeing bold moves in that direction; consider “Windup,” an award-winning animated film created entirely in Unity, just released this past January.

We are confident that feature-quality real-time animation will see significant growth in 2021 and 2022, upending the conventional time-consuming animation pipeline.

Additionally, full performance capture in real-time, eliminating the long wait for rendering, will allow a creative team to review every detail within seconds. Directors can make creative choices on the fly, as they would during live-action film production.

Geppetto, Super 78’s real-time animation system, was built on the Unity game engine to power “interactive character” theme park attractions. But we’re already using Geppetto well outside of location-based entertainment.