Double Negative / DNEG Logo
Supporting:
Available for OS: 

Linux

Windows

Current Version:

ZIVA REAL-TIME 2.0

See version release notes

1

Prep

Make your assets, just like usual.
Use the same 3D tools you know and love to make high-quality characters. Ziva Real-Time technology works on 3D assets made from any software, like Maya, Houdini, 3ds Max, Marvelous Designer, a 4D capture, and more.

2

train

Train your favorite characters to run in real-time. Speed & quality like never before.
Bring your character’s painted maps and alembic and FBX files into Ziva Real-Time Trainer. Ziva Real-Time Trainer uses industry-leading machine learning to deform your character at real-time speeds. All of this is encoded down into a ZRT file with a light size of around 20MB.

3

play

Integrate your trained characters into your pipelines without changing your animation workflow.
Add your new real-time characters into your favourite RT3D engines and Maya with Ziva Real-Time Players for Unity, Unreal, and Maya. It has never been easier to get real-time characters exactly where you want them.
GET PLayers


Novel 30fps video capture inputs

Lifelike facial deformations driven by completely new video footage.

prep

Make your assets, just like usual.
Use the same 3D tools you know and love to make high-quality characters. Ziva Real-Time technology works on 3D assets made from any software, like Maya, Houdini, 3DSMAX, Marvelous Designer, and more.

train

Train your favourite characters to run in real-time. Speed & quality like never before.
Ziva Real-Time is an application that uses the entertainment industry's leading machine learning to rapidly teach your character how to perform new animations at real-time speeds.


Learn More

play

Use our Ziva Real-Time Player plugins to integrate your trained characters into your pipeline effortlessly, with no changes to your animation workflow.
Add your new real-time characters into your favourite RT3D engines or 3D platforms with our 3rd party platform plugins. It has never been easier to get real-time characters exactly where you want them.
Download plugins

1

Prep

Make your assets, just like usual.
Use the same 3D tools you know and love to make high-quality characters. Ziva Real-Time technology works on 3D assets made from any software, like Maya, Houdini, 3DSMAX, Marvelous Designer, a 4D capture, and more.

2

train

Train your favorite characters to run in real-time. Speed & quality like never before.
Bring your character’s painted maps and alembic and FBX files into Ziva Real-Time. Ziva Real-Time uses industry-leading machine learning to teach your character new animations at real-time speeds. All of this is encoded down into a ZRT file with a light size of around 20MB.

3

play

Integrate your trained characters into your pipelines without changing your animation workflow.
Add your new real-time characters into your favourite RT3D engines or 3D platforms with Ziva Real-Time Player plugins for Unity, Unreal, and Maya. It has never been easier to get real-time characters exactly where you want them.

cinematic quality in real-time


The Ziva Real-Time technology suite enables visual effects artists, animators, and content creators to achieve real-time film-quality character animation and deformations using cutting-edge machine learning. With seamless integration of trained character assets into RT3D environments and Maya, unlock the potential of real-time character performance with Ziva Real-Time.

+ ZIVA Real-time FEATURES

  • Machine Learning (ML) and encoding of character rigs: Enables dynamic learning and real-time shape reconstruction as characters move between training poses
  • Portability of character rigs: Offers studios the advantage of using the same character rig in their animation tool, such as Maya, and achieve consistent deformation results in 3D game engines
  • Lightweight and fast training and playback: Encode character rigs in minutes without expensive deep network evaluations or training times
  • Quasi-static playback of skin and clothing: Allows artists to animate their characters without needing heavy simulations per shot
  • Platform-agnostic compatibility: Integrates into any game engine or Digital Content Creation (DCC) software seamlessly

+ Workstation requirements

  • Hardware
    CPU:
    64-bit Intel® or AMD®
    RAM: 8 GB of RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
    Disk Space: 2 GB of free disk space for install

    Operating System
    Microsoft® Windows® 10, version 1809 or higher
    Microsoft® Windows® 11
    Linux CentOS 7.6-7.9 operating system

    Additional
    Unity 2021 and newer
    Maya 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
    Unreal Engine 4.26, 4.27, 5.0, 5.1

cinematic quality in real-time


The Ziva Real-Time technology suite enables visual effects artists, animators, and content creators to achieve real-time film-quality character animation and deformations using cutting-edge machine learning. With seamless integration of trained character assets into RT3D environments and Maya, unlock the potential of real-time character performance with Ziva Real-Time.

+ ZIVA Real-time FEATURES

  • Machine Learning (ML) and encoding of character rigs: Enables dynamic learning and real-time shape reconstruction as characters move between training poses
  • Portability of character rigs: Offers studios the advantage of using the same character rig in their animation tool, such as Maya, and achieve consistent deformation results in 3D game engines
  • Lightweight and fast training and playback: Encode character rigs in minutes without expensive deep network evaluations or training times
  • Quasi-static playback of skin and clothing: Allows artists to animate their characters without needing heavy simulations per shot
  • Platform-agnostic compatibility: Integrates into any game engine or Digital Content Creation (DCC) software seamlessly

+ Workstation requirements

  • Hardware
    CPU:
    64-bit Intel® or AMD®
    RAM: 8 GB of RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
    Disk Space: 2 GB of free disk space for install

    Operating System
    Microsoft® Windows® 10, version 1809 or higher
    Microsoft® Windows® 11
    Linux CentOS 7.6-7.9 operating system

    Additional
    Unity 2021 and newer
    Maya 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
    Unreal Engine 4.26, 4.27, 5.0, 5.1

cinematic quality in real-time


Ziva Real-Time enables visual effects artists, animators, and content creators to achieve real-time film-quality character animation and deformations using cutting-edge machine learning. With seamless integration of trained character assets into RT3D environments and Maya, unlock the potential of real-time character performance with Ziva Real-Time.

+ ZIVA Real-time FEATURES

  • Machine Learning (ML) and encoding of character rigs: Enables dynamic learning and real-time shape reconstruction as characters move between training poses
  • Portability of character rigs: Offers studios the advantage of using the same character rig in their animation tool, such as Maya, and achieve consistent deformation results in their real-time 3D game engine
  • Efficient training and playback: Encode character rigs in minutes without expensive deep network evaluations or training times
  • Quasi-static playback of skin and clothing: Allows artists to animate their characters without needing heavy simulations per shot
  • Platform-agnostic compatibility: Integrates into any game engine or Digital Content Creation (DCC) software seamlessly

+ Workstation requirements

  • Operating System
    Microsoft® Windows® 10, version 1809 or higher
    Microsoft® Windows® 11
    Linux CentOS 7.6-7.9 operating system

    Additional
    Unity 2021 and newer
    Maya 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
    Unreal Engine 4.26, 4.27, 5.0, 5.1
  • Hardware
    CPU:
    64-bit Intel® or AMD®
    RAM: 8 GB of RAM (16 GB or more recommended)
    Disk Space: 2 GB of free disk space for install

optimized rigs

Create character rigs using familiar tools like Ziva VFX or traditional rigging methods. Machine learning algorithms analyze shape and movement data, enabling optimized animated deformation rigs.

machine learning automation

Ziva Real-Time encodes character deformation rigs into real-time formats using machine learning, revolutionizing the speed and responsiveness of character animations. Ziva Real-Time enables dynamic learning, real-time shape reconstruction, and reduces time from minutes to milliseconds per frame. All machine learning data remains locally stored and inaccessible to Unity.

fast & compact

Even the most complex Ziva Real-Time character and creature assets are under 30MB, so you can achieve sub-millisecond speeds while boosting performance quality with Ziva Real-Time.

pipEline integration

Ziva Real-Time allows artists to integrate character assets into content creation pipelines that utilize Maya and RT3D environments like Unity and Unreal.

STREAMLINED ANIMATION

Ziva Real-Time assets are driven by the same character animation rigs that you already use. Your animation pipeline can remain unchanged while results are greatly improved.

LEARN ZIVA REAL-TIME

Meet Noa. Download the Noa character asset, included in our free Onboarding Assets, and follow along with this tutorial to learn and play with Ziva Real-Time. For more tips and to dig deeper into Ziva Real-Time Trainer, explore our documentation.

The Ziva REAL-TIME Technology Suite:

Everything you need to get your offline characters into your pipelines.

Ziva REAL-TIME

Standalone machine learning cloud application to convert offline assets into real-time characters.

How it Works:


1. Build your character using your favourite 3D tool - Maya, Metahuman, Blender, a 4D capture, the choice is yours.

2. Train your character to run in real-time with Real-Time Trainer. Bring your character's painted maps and alembic and FBX files into RT Trainer. RT Trainer processes the data and encodes it down to a ZRT file with a size of around 20 MB.

3. Integrate your RT character into your pipeline without changing any of your animation workflows using our platform plugins for Unity, Unreal, and Maya.

4. Deploy your character's ZRT file and Let ZRT's runtime drive its deformations. Ziva supports Unity, Unreal, Maya, Motion Builder, PyTorch, ONNX, a C++ SIMD reference implementation, GPU reference implementation, and integrations into various proprietary game company's engines.


Read more about deploying your ZRT files/characters

ziva RT Player PLUGINs

Plugins for importing and playing the high-performance outputs of Ziva RT Trainer (contained in ZRT files) in Unity, Maya, and Unreal. Licenses for the plugin must be obtained from the Ziva Dynamics Store.
Unreal Engine Logo

License Pricing

Train your characters with Ziva Real-Time Trainer then use our Ziva Real-Time Players to deploy them in Real-Time 3D (RT3D) environments and Maya.

ZivaRT Demo Pack


Inspect and play with the latest fully trained ZivaRT assets in either Maya or Unreal Engine. This complimentary 10-day demo package includes 3 assets, 1 Plugin Player seat, and video results so you can share and review with your team.
Free

3-month Commercial
Evaluation License


Discover the full potential of ZivaRT with a 3-month license for you or your team. This license bundle offers everything you need to start training assets with ML for real-time productions.

Package Details

Have a big team that wants to evaluation ZivaRT?
Get in touch today to discuss Enterprise Evaluations.

Single

$480/each
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Small teams

$1900/up to 20
  • Up to 20 ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Up to 20 Maya Player Licenses
  • Up to 20  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Source Code For Integration + Deployment


No game is made the same. The source-code required for shipping your game to console is sold separate from the tools, so you can easily explore the technology before committing it to your title. Get in touch with the Ziva team today for custom source-code pricing and terms.
  • Leading Platforms
  • PC
  • XBOX
  • PlayStation 4
  • PlayStation 5
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Mobile
  • VR / AR
  • and more...
  • Any Engine
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity
  • Proprietary engines...

Full ZivaRT 
Annual Subscription


Discover the full potential of ZivaRT with a 3-month license for you or your entire studio. This uncapped license bundle offers everything you need to implement and test ZivaRT in your workflow.

PEr Seat

$1550/year
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets
  • and more...

Enterprise

$250/month
  • Unlimited ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Unlimited Maya Player Licenses
  • Unlimited  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets
  • and more...

Annual ZivaRT Subscription


Use the full ZivaRT technology suite individually or across your entire studio. This annually renewing license bundle offers everything you need to enhance all of your creature results for the months and years to come.

Single

$1900/year
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Site-wide

Enterprise
  • Site-wide ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Site-wide Maya Player Licenses
  • Site-wide  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get In Touch
Add On

$400 Annual
Plugin Player Seats


Give all artists the benefit of real-time character results with more Player Seats. Every artist's workflow can benefit from the speed, realism, and accuracy of your ZRT characters, so let them all work with production-ready assets.

Have a ready-made RT asset? Then this is all you need to start playing! 
Click to Play
Animators: Work directly on real-time, accurate puppets to get the complete view of the final results.
Groomers: Visualize exactly how a groom flows on the final character, complete with gorgeous deformations.
Lighter: Visualize lighting against the exact deformation and motion of the production asset, in real-time.

Bundle: 
ziva real-time trainer with the ziva real-time player for maya


This annually renewing license bundle offers everything you need to start training your assets to see the real value of machine learning in real-time productions. Use this bundle individually or across your entire studio.
  • Ziva Real-Time Trainer is the standalone application that trains 3D asset characters for real-time applications.
  • Ziva Real-Time Player for Maya allows you to deploy your trained characters in Maya. Choose between Floating and Node-locked licenses to find the right solution for you.
Package Details

Have a big team that wants to evaluate Ziva Real-Time?
Get in touch today to discuss Enterprise Evaluations.

node-locked

$1800/each
Node-locked licenses for Ziva Real-Time Player for Maya are locked to individual workstations.

Renews annually
BUY bundle

floating

$1900/each
Floating licenses for Ziva Real-Time Player for Maya are shared among multiple users or machines, allowing concurrent access to the software, and freeing up unused licenses when not in use.

Renews annually
BUY bundle

ADD-ON seats:
REAL-TIME Player for maya


Have a ready-made trained Ziva Real-Time asset? Then this is all you need to start playing! 

Give all artists in your studio the benefit of real-time character results with additional seats.


Package Details

node-locked

$100/seat
Node-locked licenses are locked to individual workstations.




Renews annually
BUY now

floating

$200/seat
Floating licenses for Ziva Real-Time Player for Maya are shared among multiple users or machines, allowing concurrent access to the software, and freeing up unused licenses when not in use.

Renews annually
BUY now

ZIVA REAL-TIME PLAYERS FOR UNITY & UNREAL ENGINES



Everything you need to deploy your trained Ziva Real-Time characters in RT3D environments.



unity

Free
Get plAYER

unreal

Free
Get PLAYER
Free Demo Pack
3-month
Evaluation
ZivaRT Annual Subscription
Source Code + Integration
Single Plugin Player Seats
Zivart Trainer
X
X
Maya plugin
X
X
X
X
Unreal Plugin
X
X
X
X
Demo Assets
X
X
X
Demo Asset Working Files
X
X
Version Updates
X
Tutorials + Docs
X
X
X
1-hour Training Session
X
X
Support Hours
X
Source Code
X

Discover how Ziva Real-Time enhances all kinds of assets with our complimentary onboarding characters

noa asset*

CHEETAH ASSET

GET onboarding assets
This Ziva Real-Time Onboarding Assets package includes three characters: Noa, Cheetah, and Mr. Ink
*Credits for the Noa asset go to the Academy of Software Foundation and FuzzyPixel - an Amazon Creative team
View FuzzyPixel's GitHub

License Pricing

Getting started is easy and intuitive with Ziva Real-Time's step-by-step adoption.

ZivaRT Demo Pack


Inspect and play with the latest fully trained ZivaRT assets in either Maya or Unreal Engine. This complimentary 10-day demo package includes 3 assets, 1 Plugin Player seat, and video results so you can share and review with your team.
Free

3-month Commercial
Evaluation License


Discover the full potential of ZivaRT with a 3-month license for you or your team. This license bundle offers everything you need to start training assets with ML for real-time productions.

Package Details

Have a big team that wants to evaluation ZivaRT?
Get in touch today to discuss Enterprise Evaluations.

Single

$480/each
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Small teams

$1900/up to 20
  • Up to 20 ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Up to 20 Maya Player Licenses
  • Up to 20  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Source Code For Integration + Deployment


No game is made the same. The source-code required for shipping your game to console is sold separate from the tools, so you can easily explore the technology before committing it to your title. Get in touch with the Ziva team today for custom source-code pricing and terms.
  • Leading Platforms
  • PC
  • XBOX
  • PlayStation 4
  • PlayStation 5
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Mobile
  • VR / AR
  • and more...
  • Any Engine
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity
  • Proprietary engines...

Full ZivaRT 
Annual Subscription


Discover the full potential of ZivaRT with a 3-month license for you or your entire studio. This uncapped license bundle offers everything you need to implement and test ZivaRT in your workflow.

PEr Seat

$1550/year
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets
  • and more...

Enterprise

$250/month
  • Unlimited ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Unlimited Maya Player Licenses
  • Unlimited  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets
  • and more...

Annual ZivaRT Subscription


Use the full ZivaRT technology suite individually or across your entire studio. This annually renewing license bundle offers everything you need to enhance all of your creature results for the months and years to come.

Single

$1900/year
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Site-wide

Enterprise
  • Site-wide ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Site-wide Maya Player Licenses
  • Site-wide  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get In Touch
Add On

$400 Annual
Plugin Player Seats


Give all artists the benefit of real-time character results with more Player Seats. Every artist's workflow can benefit from the speed, realism, and accuracy of your ZRT characters, so let them all work with production-ready assets.

Have a ready-made RT asset? Then this is all you need to start playing! 
Click to Play
Animators: Work directly on real-time, accurate puppets to get the complete view of the final results.
Groomers: Visualize exactly how a groom flows on the final character, complete with gorgeous deformations.
Lighter: Visualize lighting against the exact deformation and motion of the production asset, in real-time.

Free Demo Pack


Inspect and play with the latest fully trained ZivaRT assets in either Maya or Unreal Engine. This complimentary 10-day demo package includes 3 assets, 1 Plugin Player seat, and video results so you can share and review with your team.
Free

3-month Commercial
Evaluation License


Discover the full potential of ZivaRT with a 3-month license for you or your entire studio. This license bundle offers everything you need to start training your assets to see the real value of ML in real-time productions.

Package Details

Have a big team that wants to evaluation ZivaRT?
Get in touch today to discuss Enterprise Evaluations.

Single

$480/each
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Small Teams

$1900/up to 20
  • Up to 20 ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Up to 20 Maya Player Licenses
  • Up to 20  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Full ZivaRT 
Annual Subscription


Discover the full potential of ZivaRT with a 3-month license for you or your entire studio. This uncapped license bundle offers everything you need to implement and test ZivaRT in your workflow.

PEr Seat

$1550/year
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets
  • and more...

Enterprise

$250/month
  • Unlimited ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Unlimited Maya Player Licenses
  • Unlimited  Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets
  • and more...

Annual ZivaRT Subscription


Use the full ZivaRT technology suite individually or across your entire studio. This annually renewing license bundle offers everything you need to enhance all of your creature results for the months and years to come.

Single

$1900/year
  • 1 ZivaRT Trainer License
  • 1 Maya Player License
  • 1 Unreal Player License
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get Started

Teams

Enterprise
  • Site-wide ZivaRT Trainer Licenses
  • Site-wide  Maya Player Licenses
  • Site-wide Unreal Player Licenses
  • 3 Demo Assets + Working Files
  • and more...
Get In Touch

$400 Annual
Plugin Player Seats


Give all artists the benefit of real-time character results with more Player Seats. Every artist's workflow can benefit from the speed, realism, and accuracy of your ZRT characters, so let them all work with production-ready assets.

Have a ready-made RT asset? Then this is all you need to start playing! 
Click to Play
Animators: Work directly on real-time, accurate puppets to get the complete view of the final results.
Groomers: Visualize exactly how a groom flows on the final character, complete with gorgeous deformations.
Lighter: Visualize lighting against the exact deformation and motion of the production asset, in real-time.
Add On
Free Demo Pack
3-month
Evaluation
ZivaRT Annual Subscription
Source Code + Integration
Single Plugin Player Seats
Zivart Trainer
X
X
Maya plugin
X
X
X
X
Unreal Plugin
X
X
X
X
Demo Assets
X
X
X
Demo Asset Working Files
X
X
Version Updates
X
Tutorials + Docs
X
X
X
1-hour Training Session
X
X
Support Hours
X
Source Code
X

License Pricing

Use the world's leading soft tissue simulation software for all of your character needs.

Evaluation

FREE


Explore Ziva VFX for free before you purchase.

  • 60 Day Access
  • Access to all upgrades
  • Available for server-run studios
  • Full access to Ziva Community
  • Not available for commercial asset production
Buy NOW

Indie

$50/month


Pay as you go: Unlock the entire Ziva VFX toolset every month for your independent projects.

  • Billed Monthly or Annually
  • Access to all upgrades
  • Full access to Ziva Community
  • Available for productions under $500k in total annual revenue or funding.
Click Here to get a License Quote
Buy NOW

Studio

$1,800/year


Ideal for single studio locations. Simulate better, faster characters for productions of all sizes.

  • 365 Day Access
  • Access to all upgrades
  • Available for server-run studios
  • Full access to Ziva Community
  • 100% available for commercial asset production
Click here to get a License Quote
Buy Now

More to do with Ziva vfx...

Add Dynamics to Existing Rigs
Add a physical-correction on top of any existing character rig with Ziva's goaling attachment. This lightweight approach corrects unwanted stretch and adds contacts and plausible secondary motion to your non-Ziva assets.
Make FEATURE ANIMATIONs
Create adorable, jiggly creatures by simulating a single volume on top of a simple skeleton. This approach is ideal for feature animation - capturing the bulk, volume, and secondary dynamics of a character with unparalleled ease.
Correct Trouble Areas
Quickly fix trouble spots on your existing rigs. Ziva can be used to effortlessly correct common obstacles such as hand pronation/suspension, neck muscle movement and excitation, torso rigidity and twisting, and lifelike belly inertia/jiggle.

Ziva real-time in the News...

Article of Ziva technology used in Spiderman Miles morales
Article of Ziva technology used in Spiderman Miles morales
Article of Ziva technology used in Spiderman Miles morales
Frequently Asked Questions
ZIVA REAL-TIME
What is Ziva Real-Time?
What's required to use Ziva Real-Time?
What types of asset files do I need to get started?
What's a ZRT file and how do I open it?
How much does Ziva Real-Time cost?
Do you have documentation?
How can I contact support?
ZIVA REAL-TIME PLAYERS
How much do the Ziva Real-Time Players cost?
Which versions of Unity, Unreal, and Maya are supported by the Ziva Real-Time Players?
Where can I get the Ziva Real-Time Players?

Ziva Real-Time in the News:

Article of Ziva technology used in Spiderman Miles morales
Article of Ziva technology used in Spiderman Miles morales
Article of Ziva technology used in Spiderman Miles morales