Version 1.3 is now available

The latest release of ZIVA VFX includes countless tool upgrades, bug fixes, and an improved installation method for select users. To learn more about the recent updates, click here to read the release documentation.

Maya 2018 compatibility
zMeshCheck command for mesh quality assurance
Up to 2x faster cloth scene speed and performance
Overall speed and performance improvements

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Evaluation

Evaluation Licenses available for commercial entities and hobbyists.

*Not available for commercial asset production.

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Indie License

Available for individuals working on productions under $500k in total annual revenue or funding.

Annual License: $500/year
Monthly License: $50/month

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Studio License

Global Studio: $6,250/user
Single Studio $5,000/user
Volume Pricing starting at: $2,400/user

*Includes 1 year free upgrade subscription. Annual upgrade subscription $2,000 after year one.

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GREATER REALISM

With soft tissue sitting on top of anatomical muscle groups, everything looks right. Muscles preserve volume under force and collision, while tissue bends, stretches, creases and jiggles with physics-informed realism.

FASTER ALTERATIONS

Director feedback at the 11th hour? No problem.
With ZIVA VFX, character alterations can be applied retroactively at nearly anytime.

Adapting the underlying anatomy of your characters will let you react quickly to all feedback during any step of your creative process.

Faster Alterations

Director feedback at the 11th hour? Character alterations can be applied retroactively at nearly anytime. Adapting the underlying anatomy of your characters will let you react quickly to all feedback during any step of your creative process.

Greater Realism

With soft tissue sitting on top of anatomical muscle groups, everything looks right. Muscles preserve volume under force and collision, and the tissue will bend, stretch, crease and jiggle with the realism audiences and experts expect.

Rapid Sequencing

When the inevitable prequel, sequel, and spinoff get the green light, ZIVA VFX lets you improve fidelity, modify appearances, and shift art direction while still preserving the character essentials. Never start from scratch again.

RAPID SEQUENCING

When the inevitable prequel, sequel, and spinoff get the green light, ZIVA VFX lets you improve fidelity, modify appearances, and shift art direction while still preserving character essentials. Never start from scratch again.

Add Dynamics to Existing Rigs

Add a physical-correction on top of any existing character rig with our goaling attachment. This lightweight approach corrects unwanted stretch and adds contacts and plausible secondary motion.

make FEATURE ANIMATION with physics

Create rudimentary characters easily with a single volume on top of a skeleton. This approach is ideal for feature animation - capturing the bulk, volume, and secondary dynamics of a character.

Correct Trouble Areas

Correct hand pronation-supination
Correct neck shape with precise neck muscle movement
Correct upper-body rigidity under twisting
Correct thigh skin shape due to quadriceps muscle excitation
Add life-like belly fat secondary motion (inertia and gravity)
Correct elbow self-collisions

The Toolset to build characters
with real physics

Embedded FEM

All attributes computed with consideration to the embedded surface, simplifying the creation of tetrahedral models.

Adaptive Tetrahedral Meshing

Adaptive tetrahedral meshing makes it easy for artists to paint localized resolution wherever needed.

Material properties

Assign real-world material properties to make simulated solid objects behave just like their real-world counterparts.

Muscle Excitation

Make your virtual characters' muscles flex and fire automatically with muscle fiber flow and automatic excitation.

Studio Licenses as low as

$2,400 USD

per year (with volume pricing)

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* Includes 1 year free upgrade subscription. Annual upgrade subscription $2,000 after year one.

Coupled cloth sims

Ziva VFX now offers fully coupled cloth simulation for fascia or skin

Collisions

Realistic simulations require the use of collisions. Ours are fast and robust.

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ZIVA VFX lets you do more:

Materials

Use multiple material types, producing robust motion: StVK, NeoHookean, co-rotational, anisotropic

Collisions

Collide objects using automatic collision detection and response with organic volume conservation.

Elastic Solids

Goal elastic solids to externally animated triangle meshes for instant secondary motion.

Painting

Easy painting: attachment areas, muscle fibers, muscle strength, tet-mesh resolution, material properties, etc.

Caching

Cache simulations to RAM or disk for fast playback and/or restarting.

Scripting

Script and pipeline using Maya MEL, or our open-source Python tools.

Meshes

Embed arbitrary triangle meshes into your simulated solids.

Muscle Firing

Excite/contract a muscle using scripted muscle activation forces.

Volume

Preserve volume with extreme precision, even under large deformations.

Damping

Use multiple types of physical damping.

Cloth Fitting

Simulate thin shells for skin and fascia that automatically shrink-wrap to internal objects.

Attachments

Add physical attachments between objects and paint where they are attached.

Evaluation

Evaluation Licenses available for commercial entities and hobbyists.

*Not available for commercial asset production.

request Trial available on desktop

Indie License

Available for individuals working on productions under $500k in total annual revenue or funding.

Annual License: $500/year
Monthly License: $50/month

BUY NOW

Studio License

Global Studio: $6,250/user
Single Studio $5,000/user
Volume Pricing starting at: $2,400/user

*Includes 1 year free upgrade subscription. Annual upgrade subscription $2,000 after year one.

Buy Now

“Ziva’s FEM muscle and skin simulation was the last piece of the puzzle we'd been longing for to achieve realistic looking, physically plausible Creature FX.”

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"It is the best muscle plugin we've found. It brings extra realism to our creatures via physically plausible muscle FX. It is a great improvement to have Ziva integrated into our workflow."