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Presented at the RADI 2015 (meetings
Animation development Innovation) in Angoulême,
Collodi developed by TeamTO, Mercenaries Engineering
(guerrilla Render) and Inria (with the support of
Imaginove and CapDigital),
is part of this new generation of software that should
have an impact on productivity directly aimed at
animators.
"Animation represents two-thirds of
human resources on a series,
claims Jean-Baptiste Spieser, Director technical at
TeamTO.
and a generalist 3D software like Maya often proves
to be counter-productive due to it's complexity.
It's over-technical aspect and lack of intuitive
operation can also discourage artists coming from the
2d Animation field."
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For Cyril Corvazier, Manager of
Mercenaries Engineering, performance of the generalist
software are also less and less in tune with the growing
complexity of the scenes.
Based on a dynamics engine
made by Inria, Collodi means to bring new methods of
animation, offering tools for fast and intuitive
posing , as well as powerful
and innovative deformers, custom rigs and a timeline
that the artist can scrub in real time without having
to recalculate the scene, and regardless of the number
of characters.
Written largely in Python, Collodi, including beta
versions will be made available to schools, will be
tested in production at TeamTO in the summer 2016 on
the next season of "Angelo la débrouille" (France3).
The commercialization of 3D
animation available under Linux and Windows software is
planned for 2017.
The software has been funded
by FUI 15 (Single
Interministerial Fund) the same
way as Dynam'it, the software which has made dynamics
more accessible to artists.
Dynam'it has
been developed by TeamTO,
artifacts Studio and Inria, and
used by TeamTO in the feature film "Gus" to accelerate
the creation of complex 3D animations.
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