Golaem Crowd

Feature Film Quality on a TV budget

Golaem helps you to populate shots in a short amount of time and with limited budget.

Built with the artist in mind, Golaem automates repetitive and cumbersome tasks to let them focus on their art and keep total control of the results.

Create Believable Characters

Golaem makes your shots more realistic by generating variations for you:

• Visual variations
• Animation variations
• Behavioral variations

Avoid Repetitive Work

Having characters walking around in your scenes is a piece of cake. It takes only a few minutes. 

They can be influenced by simple triggers like zone, time, distance, collision... and automatically adapt to the ground, even if it changes every day!

Use Golaem Assets or your own

Start rendering shots today thanks to the Golaem Assets, a set of ready-to-use character models and motions for stadiums, city street or medieval battles.

Use your custom characters and motions with Golaem. Animate any type of characters: humans, horses & riders, insects, bicycles, robots...

The Golaem workflow is so flexible that you can even start with Golaem assets and replace them by your own later.

Save assets production time

Golaem reduces the amount of motion capture you need to carry out for your project.

Re-use motions from previous productions. Customize them by simply mixing them with a new simple animation. Adjust them with procedural animation.

From 1 to 100 000 characters

Do not bother about the number of people in your viewport. Whatever the number of characters you are dealing with, you can keep working comfortably, with an interactive viewport, full previsualization and a small scene file.

Keep artistic control

Achieve precise control over placement, shading, navigation, and more, with the Paint Tool or even modify simulation results with the Layout tool.

Easy scene sharing & Retakes

Golaem Layout is included with your Golaem license.

Visualize simulation results. Take full control to get a shot from good to perfect. Create a whole scene without even running a simulation. 

Easily share scenes with other departments or other studios. Optimize the production workflow (e.g. senior artists in charge of simulations, juniors in charge of layout and retakes).

Quick Learning Curve

Because it is so user-friendly, Golaem is very fast to learn.
We have heard stories of runners contributing to crowd shots for feature films after a few days. 

Check your shot before rendering

No need to wait long hours for a render only to realize you have made a mistake. Golaem provides an advanced previsualization mode, keeping the viewport interactive while displaying skinned mesh on all your characters. 

Instantly inspect what a character is doing by selecting him. Display information in the viewport, check motion blending in the Visual Debug panel, or open the Behavior Editor to see running behaviors and triggers.

Pipeline Friendly

After creating your simulation with Golaem for Maya, you can further refine your crowd work in software like 3ds Max, Side FX Houdini, Unreal Engine, and Katana using dedicated plug-in extensions.

Golaem supports all major industry file formats, including USD, Alembic and FBX.

World Class Support

We have the best customer support you will ever find. And we mean it.

We cannot count the number of thank you notes from customers telling us that our support is the best one they have dealt with.