VTM Anima is an animation suite for artists. Bring in your character’s turnaround, then pose it, turn it and direct it. The frames in between are drawn for you.
In development · built by VTM Studio
A VTM file with front, side and back drawings of a character, and the same character rigged by VTM Rig. Use the arrow keys or drag to turn it to any angle. Drag a hand, elbow, foot or knee to pose that limb, the head to bend at the waist, or the hips to crouch.
15°In-between, generated
Set a few key poses and scrub the timeline. Everything between your keys is filled in.
aki.vtm
VTM Anima
VTM fileaki.vtm
Front
Side
Back
Angle 0°From your drawing
VTM Rig · frame 1/240
Your key: Rest
VTM Rig
Four specialists
Layers
Hair, ponytailAutomatic
00:00:00 / 00:10:00
Concept mock. The frames here are blended in your browser, not drawn by the model.
VTM Rig turns your drawing to any angle. VTM Character draws it in every frame between your keys, so it never drifts off model.
0°
Your drawing: Front
Drag to turn
Your drawing, from the VTM fileGenerated angle
Rigging and turnarounds
Draw it three times, get every angle. Your VTM file holds the front, side and back; VTM Rig rigs the character from them, so you can turn it, pose it and move it without it drifting off model.
Frame 04/12Your key: Contact
Your keyGenerated in-between
Character model
You set the keys; it draws your character in every frame between them. Mark the poses that matter with keyframes, a rough sketch or a line of text, and VTM Character fills in the motion.
Props, scenery and depth each have a model of their own. Every one draws a single layer, and the layers line up with your character because they all start from the same pose.
All four layers together: the finished frame.
A tree, a cat, a desk lamp. Draw it once, then move it with a few words, a rough doodle or a couple of bones.
Left alone, it still moves.
It sways in the wind, the leaves flutter and a few drift off.
Good animation comes from the keys, the acting and the timing. VTM Anima leaves those with you and takes the frames nobody wants to draw by hand.
Your drawing
The character you bring in is the character in every shot, so a small team, or one artist on their own, can take on a whole episode.
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VTM file
Your character’s turnaround: front, side and back. That is all it starts from.
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VTM Rig rigs your character from those drawings. Turn it and pose it any way you like, and it still looks like your art.
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VTM Props, VTM Background and VTM Depth make the objects, the scenery and the depth around your character.
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Put your shots in order on a timeline, and they play out as one episode.
VTM Anima is a concept. The demos on this page are mock-ups of how it should feel, not output from a model.
It isn’t starting from nothing. VTM Spark and VTM-1.5.1 already animate a single picture of a character, live, on your own graphics card, free and open source. VTM Anima grows out of that work.
Try VTM Spark todayWant to build this with us?
Animators, engineers and backers: the team talks it through on Discord.