Crowd simulation
Populate a space with characters that navigate it plausibly, respond to terrain and interact with each other, instead of being placed one by one.
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What it is, and why teams use it.
What Chaos Anima is
Chaos Anima populates architectural scenes with photorealistic people and moving traffic. It pairs a crowd and traffic simulation engine with a library of more than 4,000 render-ready 4D and 3D people models and a growing collection of animated urban vehicles.
The simulation handles rigid body physics, terrain response and believable interaction between characters, so a plaza or a streetscape reads as a place people actually use. Assets drop straight into 3ds Max, Cinema 4D or Unreal Engine, and rendering stays in the application you already work in.
Where it fits
Anima is included in the V-Ray Collection and Corona Collection tiers, and is available as a standalone floating subscription. Storm FX can advise which is better value once we know how many artists need it at once.
Key features
What Chaos Anima brings.
Traffic simulation
Animate vehicles along road networks with realistic behaviour, which is what makes urban and infrastructure visualisations convincing.
4,000+ people models
A large library of render-ready 4D and 3D human assets, filterable by activity, clothing, season and setting so the crowd suits the project.
Animated urban vehicles
A growing set of vehicle models built for animation, so street level scenes do not depend on stock stills.
Drop and Live link workflows
Drag models straight into 3ds Max, Cinema 4D or Unreal Engine, or drive crowd and traffic animation from the Anima app with a live link.
Renders in your DCC
Rendering happens in your existing application with your existing renderer. Anima adds the population, it does not add a second render pipeline.
Use cases
How it plays out in practice.
Bringing stills to life
A populated render communicates scale and use in a way an empty one cannot, and it takes minutes rather than a manual placement session.
Animated fly-throughs
Moving crowds and traffic are what separate a convincing project film from an obviously empty model.
Masterplan and infrastructure
Urban scale projects live or die on a public realm that looks used. Traffic and pedestrian simulation is the fastest route to that.
Across industries
Where Chaos Anima earns its keep.
In production
Chaos Anima at work.
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