Golaem Crowd

Golaem Crowd
Developer(s) Golaem
Initial release May 2011 (2011-05)
Stable release 5.0 / February 2016 (2016-02)
Development status Active
Written in C++, MEL, Python
Operating system Linux
Microsoft Windows
Platform x64
Available in English
Type 3D Computer Graphics
License Proprietary
Website www.golaem.com/crowd

Golaem Crowd is a plug-in for Autodesk Maya that allows for the simulation of controllable characters crowds based on independent agents.[1] It is developed by Golaem, a France-based software company (created in Rennes in 2009).

It is a tool to generate characters in reachable areas of the scene (e.g. to place an army in a field avoiding trees and rocks) While animators can use Maya tools to make the crowd characters (represented as particle) move in the scene, the plugin provides navigation behaviors to make them go from A to B autonomously.[2] It allows for automatic navigation mesh computation, Roadmap-based path planning and configurable steering behaviors (including reactive collision avoidance).

The included animation engine enables to replay previously created motion, even on characters of different morphologies. Golaem Crowd can adapt motions to the ground and automatically compute transitions between motions, for two legged or four legged motion. It provides: Automatic and editable skeleton mapping, biped & quadruped dedicated animation engine, automatic motion retargeting, blending & ground adaptation. Animations can be triggered and blended by defining associated behaviors with start/stop trigger conditions.

The user interface is based on Maya workaday objects (particles, fields…). Golaem Crowd is based on the standard animation workflow in CGI, and allows to incrementally build a scene. Steps are validated one by one: assets, flows, population; behaviors; animation.

History

In production

Some examples where Golaem Crowd was used in production includes:

Compatible renderers

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Golaem's CEO Stéphane Donikian". Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  2. ↑ www.crowdscontrol.net. "Golaem Crowd Launch". Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  3. ↑ "Attack Of The Crowds - New Tools For Crowd Simulation". Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  4. ↑ www.vizworld.com. "Golaem launches Golaem Crowd at FMX". Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  5. ↑ www.3dworldmag.com. "Golaem Crowd for Maya released". Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  6. ↑ "Golaem Crowd 1.1, Golaem Puppet 2.2, Golaem SDK 2.3 available". Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  7. ↑ "Logorama remporte l’Oscar 2010 du meilleur court-métrage d’animation". Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  8. ↑ "Golaem and Mikros Image partnered to produce funny short mov". Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  9. ↑ "Golaem Announces Golaem Crowd 1.2, supporting V-Ray rendering". Retrieved 2011-11-04.
  10. ↑ "Golaem Crowd 1.3". Retrieved 2011-11-08.
  11. ↑ www.cgchannel.com. "Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 1.3 for Maya". Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  12. ↑ www.cgchannel.com. "Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 2.0".
  13. 1 2 Golaem Crowd 2.2 – Supporting Solid Angle’s Arnold
  14. ↑ Golaem Crowd 3.0 – Unleash your imagination
  15. ↑ Golaem Crowd 3.1
  16. ↑ Golaem Crowd 4.0
  17. ↑ Alesia, le reve d'un roi nu (2011) on IMDB.
  18. ↑ Alesia, le reve d'un roi nu (2011) on Facebook.
  19. ↑ Bande annonce Alésia, le rêve d'un roi nu
  20. ↑ Once Upon a Time (TV Series 2011) on IMDB.
  21. ↑ Mikros testimonial on Nissan Juke commercial.
  22. ↑ Mathematic commercials: Orange Sport Be Prepared.
  23. ↑ Astérix et Obélix au service de Sa Majesté.
  24. ↑ The 5 step zombie plan: Warm Bodies.
  25. ↑ How Dan Schrecker and Jonathan Levine brought the undead to life in Warm Bodies.
  26. ↑ Framestore - Nike 'Dare to be Brasilian'
  27. ↑ Framestore Creates Brazilian Crowds for Nike Using Golaem Crowd
  28. ↑ Golaem: la start-up rennaise s'invite dans Game of Thrones
  29. ↑ Palme de l'animation : Golaem crée les armées de Game of Thrones
  30. ↑ Golaem, numéro un mondial de la création de foules virtuelles
  31. ↑ Pixomondo : retour sur les effets du film Der Medicus
  32. ↑ Sky Sports 'Making Sports Better'
  33. ↑ 'Legend or truth: the VFX of Hercules'
  34. ↑ 'Going full vamp: Dracula Untold'
  35. ↑ 'How one VFX artist made these 3 minutes of madness'
  36. ↑ 'Woodlawn Vfx Breakdown'
  37. ↑ 'It’s Guitar Hero, but not as you know it'
  38. ↑ 'Post Magazine : Artic Blast'
  39. ↑ Pixar Launches RenderMan On Demand™, on Pixar Press Releases
  40. ↑ Pixar launches RenderMan On Demand online service, on cgchannel.com
  41. ↑ Chaos Group newsletter
  42. ↑ Golaem newsletter
  43. ↑ Guerilla Render Technology
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