Layout Engine
Create complete 3D scenes in minutes
Layout Engine
Create complete 3D scenes in minutes
Build full 3D scenes automatically with the Layout Engine using your models and screenplay.
Why Layout Engine
Felix streamlines workflow through AI for Automation. The third generation of MetaBull's production platform automates much of the animation process by taking care of the repetitive, technical tasks. Guided by advanced proprietary agents, Felix can build scenes and create layouts with amazing speed. Giving you back valuable time to wonder, what if?
Layout Artists can now complete 3D scenes in minutes, not days. Automatically.
Animators further edit and shape each shot with Felix or offline with industry standard tools.
Tools don't make the Creator, but they sure help.
The Layout Engine uses specialized Agents for rapid creation of shots. Our Conversational AI makes it easy. You can even control multiple shots with a single prompt.
Character placement in scenes
Automatic motion retargeting
Complex camera controls and movement
Automatic coverage of a scene including OTS
Multi-language lip sync automatically
ADR with external audio files
Expressions from natural language prompts
Layout Engine
Spend more time with your vision and less time with your tools.
Felix uses its incredible Layout Engine to build complete 3D scenes in minutes. Using your models and text from your screenplay, Felix rigs and animates each shot automatically to capture your visual composition and execute the technical aspects of Layout. This includes adding dialog and lip sync automatically.
Felix takes care of the repetitive tasks, so you can focus on, well, being creative.
With the time consuming layout work complete, you and your team can edit and animate the shots seamlessly in Blender or Maya to deliver the final, finished pixels.
Each shot is a complete full-scale 3D scene that includes character placement, motion retargeting, blocking and animation through the scene, camera control and movement, dialog, and ADR. Automatically.
The Production Hub
Create dozens of shots rapidly with Felix, and then edit those shots in Blender or Maya. MetaBull's Production Hub is the orchestrator. It allows the seamless integration of Felix with your current workflow.
The Production Hub is a stand-alone desktop app for Mac and Windows that enables Animators to work in their favorite tools even while Layout Artists launch new shots quickly on Felix.
Good, Not Great
GenAI is everywhere, and it's good, or goodish. It's definitely not great. The automations created by MetaBull using AI are different. First, the power behind the Layout Engine are special agents built for automation. It's not generative.
The automation delivered by Felix is designed to help a team be more efficient. When was the last time your used a typewriter or landline? The Layout Engine is very good, maybe great. But it doesn't replace the Animator.
Just like the computer didn't replace the writer, AI isn't going to replace the animator or the filmmaker. Felix brings a new fluidity to storytelling. Imagine creating a hundred 3D scenes or shots in ten minutes. Are they perfect? No. Not designed to be perfect.
The Layout Engine is desinged to be insanely fast. The shots created are by design intended to provide the fundamentals of blocking and camera placement with dialog and lip sync, automatically.
Now the creative storytelling is up to the you.
Accelerate Your Layout
Move from shot ideas to full layout passes in record time