Jul 23, 2019 15:00:00

Assassin's Creed 'Far Cry' Ubisoft's animation department adopts Blender as the main tool, also actively supporting development

by Blender Foundation

Ubisoft Animation Studio,

Ubisoft 's animation production department known for “ Assassin's Creed ”, “ Far Cry ” and “ Rainbow Six Siege ” adopts 3DCG software “ Blender ” developed in an open source project as a main tool for digital content production I clarified what I did. Ubisoft also announced that it will support Blender's development project.

Ubisoft Joins Blender Development Fund to Support Open Source Animation
https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/353364/ubisoft-joins-blender-development-fund-to-support-open-source-animation

Ubisoft Animation Studio is a Ubisoft Film & Televisions studio specializing in the production of animation films and television animation series, established to support the production of ' Rabbids Invasion ', which depicts the characters of the game ' Ravitz Party ' in animation. it was done.

Pierrot Jacquet, director of production at Ubisoft Animation Studio, said, 'We think that Blender is going to make a big difference for the CGI industry, and Ubisoft has long been interested in it for a long time,' to advance Blender's development project In consultation with the Blender Foundation, we revealed that we have joined as a gold member of Blender Development Fund, a donation fund that supports Blender's development. In addition, Ubisoft Animation Studio has adopted Blender, an open source software, as its main tool in the company, in the digital-centric animation production.

The main tools originally used internally are the most efficient to develop internally. Ubisoft Animation Studio used to have its own digital content creation tools, but he used to spend valuable time maintaining and improving the core of the software. 'Actively supporting open source software such as Blender, while adopting, will give you more tool flexibility and more resources to focus on creating animation,' said Jacquet. .

On July 15, 2019, Epic Games, which develops the Fort Knight and Gears of War series, also donated $ 1.2 million (approximately 130 million yen) to the Blender Foundation. Autodesk's CG software ' Maya ' is well known as a software commonly used in the 3DCG animation industry, but companies such as Epic Games and Ubisoft have moved to support Blender, so it will be in the industry of the future 3DCG software. Shares may change significantly.