Types of Animation software used in movies

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Salut! Hi everyone,

Today I'm going to share about different types of animation software used for movies that we have seen. There are many types of software, but I will share just the few of them.

1. Autodesk Maya (Figure 1): This software used for 3D modeling, rendering, and animating characters and its environments. One example of famous movie using this software is "Frozen" (2013).

Figure 1: Autodesk Maya.

2. Pixar's RenderMan (Figure 2): This is a rendering software used to create photorealistic images in CGI and it is developed by Pixar Animation Studios. Example of famous movie using this software is "Toy Story" (1995).

Figure 2: Pixar's RenderMan.

3. Adobe After Effects (Figure 3): Besides known for motion graphics and visual effects, this software also used in animation, especially for 2D animation. For example, "The Simpsons Movie" (2007).

Figure 3: Adobe After Effects.

4. Toon Boom Harmony (Figure 4): This software is one of popular 2D animation software, it is used for creating traditional, cut-out, and of course paperless animation. One example of famous movie is "The Breadwinner" (2017).
 
Figure 4: Toon Boom Harmony.

5. Blender (Figure 5): This software is an open-source 3D computer graphics software, and it is free. Blender used for creating animated films, 3D models, art, visual effects, and more functions. "Next Gen" (2018) is one of the movie examples that using this software.

Figure 5: Blender.

6. TVPaint (Figure 6): This software is one of favourite software for 2D animators and for its hand-drawn capabilities that have been used by many traditional animators. Example of movie is "Ernest & Celestine" (2012).

Figure 6: TVPaint.

7. Autodesk 3DS Max (Figure 7): This software is used for making games, 3D animations, modelling, and rendering. Example of movies are Iron Man, X-Men and Avatar.

Figure 7: Autodesk 3DS max.

8. Houdini (Figure 8): This is limited version software, and it offers compositing, 3D modeling, visual effects, lighting, and animation. Spider-man: Far from home is one of movie example that use this software.
Figure 8: Houdini.

So, above are some of the famous software that used in most of the famous movies, which also can be used for creating animations films. That is all for this post, I'll see you again in my next post. 

Love, Peach💕


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