Animation studio Voronezh: Animation 3D platform

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2024: Presentation of the "Animated 3D Platform"

The Voronezh Animation Studio, known for cartoons from the Snezhnaya Koroleva, Wolves and Sheep franchise and the Супергерои.ру series, introduced two technologies for content manufacturers on April 8, 2024: a 3D editor and a specialized task management system. Both products can work in conjunction with Yandex Cloud cloud services. Solutions can be used not only by cartoon creators, but also by game developers, VFX designers and other specialists who create images, videos and other multimedia materials.

The 3D editor is called the "Animation 3D Platform" and was created with the support of the Russian Foundation for the Development of Information Technologies (RFRIT). "Animated 3D Platform" is a solution that allows you to assemble 3D scenes, design the appearance, including creating 3D hair for characters, effectively illuminate and visualize 3D scenes. According to the studio's calculations, with full use, this will allow customers to completely close up to 30-40% of tasks in the production cycle of creating a 3D cartoon. The company accepts testing applications.

As early as April 2024, you can see ON in action. In November 2023, a new animated series of the Супергерои.ру studio was released, in which the Animated 3D Platform was used to create each frame. The software was used on artists' workstations, as well as for visualization the final picture on the hybrid render farm Yandex Cloud Compute in combination with its own servers studios.

source = Voronezh Animation Studio

The company also created a dedicated animation project management system, ProdTrack, on the Yandex Cloud platform. In the program, you can jointly track the production status of all elements of cinema creation: shots - a sequence of personnel shot by the camera in one pass; assets - separately manufactured elements of the animation scene; sequences - groups of shots combined by one location, episodes, etc. With the help of the system, the participants of the animation project, specialized specialists, can track the status of the tasks in the context, hierarchy and detail necessary for the production of films. To work with visual content, the solution has a modern online system for reviewing video and still images.

Prodtrack is already used by several Russian animation studios. The company also plans to provide a cloud model service on the Yandex Cloud platform.

source = Voronezh Animation Studio

Modern animation involves processing large amounts of data in the form of 3D models with textures in high resolution. Technology simulates real-world lighting using ray tracing. These processes require a large amount of RAM, terabytes are processed. information Opportunities cloud services inspire artists: they use new techniques, create more complex scenes, experiment with formats and genres. Working on such large-scale projects in the cloud is much more convenient: studios use exactly as much capacity as necessary, and due to collaboration, new series of favorite cartoons are released earlier. With Yandex Cloud, we have reached a new level: now we not only produce content ourselves, but also can offer the market cloud tools to create new works, "said Vladimir Nikolaev, general producer of the Animation Studio. Voronezh