A singing picture brought Hedra its first rush of users. The harder business was learning what creators needed after the joke landed: a place to plan, test, make and revise the whole piece.
Sans Strings Studio is a San Francisco real-time animation and entertainment company building 'animation with a soul.' Co-founded by Substance 3D creator Sebastien Deguy and real-time artist Ryan Corniel, it uses a proprietary digital-puppetry system called F.E.L.T. to turn live human performance into instant character animation, aiming to make animation fast, affordable and scalable across interactive, linear and live formats.