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Sans Strings Studio
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.
Sebastien Deguy
Sebastien Deguy is the founder of Allegorithmic, the company behind the Substance 3D texturing suite that became an industry standard across games, film, and design. After Adobe acquired Allegorithmic in 2019 he served as VP of 3D & Immersive, won a Sci-Tech Academy Award (2023) and an Emmy (2024), then left in 2025 to build content instead of tools. He now runs Sans Strings Studio in San Francisco, a digital-puppetry company chasing 'animation with a soul' through a real-time performance pipeline. He is also an electronic musician under the alias Matterflow and the author of a book on Allegorithmic's history.