Wonder Dynamics now lets you go straight from multi-camera video to fully animated 3D scene
Wonder Dynamics made a strong opening play in AI-enhanced visual effects, providing tools animators and filmmakers actually find useful — and earning the startup a prompt acquisition by Autodesk. Their latest tool further automates the animation process, letting you put in practically any video and get a fully editable 3D scene, characters and all.
The feature combines the company’s existing drop-in actor replacement, in which you could easily replace a person with an animated 3D character keyed to their movements, with a full scale 3D background of your choosing.
To be clear, as with all the company’s previous features, this is not intended to provide a finished product — just a base layer to build on. Animation is labor intensive, and location shooting is difficult and expensive — if you can film two friends walking down the hall and convert it to robots walking down a futuristic street, that’s super useful for previsualization, story flow, and other early stages of production.
“The idea is that you can shoot and edit your video in your living room, with desired performances, cut, and camera framings as you would want to see in your animation,” said Wonder Dynamics co-founder Nikola Todorovic. “This process would provide you with a quick previs and, most importantly, 3D scenes to edit each individual element in either Blender, Maya or Unreal.”
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