Welcome to our latest CGWire and Kitsu update! Over the past three months, we’ve been hard at work, and we’re excited to share all the progress, new features, and improvements we’ve made. Let’s dive in!

Welcome to our latest CGWire and Kitsu update! Over the past three months, we’ve been hard at work, and we’re excited to share all the progress, new features, and improvements we’ve made. Let’s dive in!

From TV Series to famous feature films, Kitsu was involved in a wide range of productions, including 2D, 3D, 2D/3D, VFX, Stop-Motion, immersive experiences, and monumental projections. Better, over the past few years...

Welcome to our latest CGWire and Kitsu update! Over the past three months, we’ve been hard at work, and we’re excited to share all the progress, new features, and improvements we’ve made. Let’s dive in!

Welcome to our latest CGWire and Kitsu update! Over the past three months, we’ve been hard at work, and we’re excited to share all the progress, new features, and improvements we’ve made. Let’s dive in!

Welcome to our latest CGWire and Kitsu update! Over the past three months, we’ve been hard at work, and we’re excited to share all the progress, new features, and improvements we’ve made.

Animation layout is the foundation of immersive storytelling, guiding camera angles, staging, and composition to create visually engaging scenes. Discover how layout artists craft the worlds of animation and bring stories to life with precision and creativity.

Welcome to our latest CGWire and Kitsu update! Over the past three months, we’ve been hard at work, and we’re excited to share all the progress, new features, and improvements we’ve made.

Color is a powerful tool in character design, setting the tone for personality and making characters instantly recognizable. This article dives into color theory and essential principles animators use to create impactful color palettes, from symbolic choices to practical tips for harmonious design.

Creating an animated film? Even a 10-second animation takes hours to plan. Animatics help refine animations without the high cost. Learn all about how animators use and create animatics in our latest post!

Tobie Lolness TV series, a 26x26 project, involved four different studios and required tight collaboration between all stakeholders. This is why they chose Kitsu for their project.

Have you ever wondered how characters like Elsa from Disney's Frozen or Joy from Pixar's Inside Out 2 seem so life-like on screen? Here is a breakdown of how 3D animations come to life.

Welcome to our latest CGWire and Kitsu update! Over the past three months, we’ve been hard at work, and we’re excited to share all the progress, new features, and improvements we’ve made.

From character design to rendering, animators use many software tools in their everyday work. But with so many options, choosing the right one can feel like navigating a labyrinth.

Welcome to our new update about the CGWire company and Kitsu! This post will teach you everything we did during the past three months.

The very nature of the animation pipeline, with its collaborative workflows and reliance on digital assets, creates a unique set of security challenges: protecting these valuable IP assets from unauthorized access, leaks, or malicious attacks

Welcome to our Quarter update about the CGWire company and Kitsu! In this post, you will learn everything we did during the past three months.

Few topics are as divisive as AI. On one hand, you find outraged artists whose artworks are being illegally ingested by algorithms. On the other, a new wave of creators leveraging AI for self-expression or monetary gains.

Welcome to our Quarter update about the CGWire company and Kitsu! In this post, you will learn everything we did during the past three months.

Getting into an exercise routine can be overwhelming. Maybe you don't know where to start or you're just too scattered to keep yourself consistent, or you don't feel very inspired by the exercises you found online.

The seamless integration of various tools and platforms has become necessary in the ever-evolving domain of animation and VFX productions. For efficient communication, every studio needs a production tracker and an asset manager.

Welcome to our new update about the CGWire company and Kitsu! This post will teach you everything we did during the past two months.

Next week my first child will be born. This new step in my life is an opportunity to pause and reflect on what we did with CGWire and where we are heading.

Blender rendering is the process of generating image or video output files from 3D scenes created in Blender. Rendering is a highly resource-intensive task because you need to simulate complex physics like light, materials, and other visual elements to produce a realistic result.

Blender is a popular 3D computer graphics software used in animation. At some point in your project, you’ll need to export your files―to store them, share them with teammates, or use them in other specialized software like uploading to a rendering farm. Fortunately, Blender provides several export options: in this article, we explain each one and when they are best used in your animation pipeline to make the most of it. Lastly, we’ll talk about how to use Kitsu, our open-source production manag

Welcome to our new update about the CGWire company and Kitsu! In this post, you will learn all that we did during the past two months. Kitsu During these two months, we had to focus more on maintenance and some complex installations. Nevertheless, we were able to add a few key features to Kitsu. 1. Team Schedule It's a long-awaited feature. Many studios want to be able to manage their team workload through the schedule. It's now possible to do it right from Kitsu. With the team schedule, you

Last week, at Annecy Festival "Linda Veut du Poulet" and "27" from Miyu Productions won the Cristal Award for Feature and Short Films! The Cristal is the most renowned award for animation. Both movies used Kitsu to manage their workflow and their reviews. First and foremost, congrats to the teams behind these masterpieces! Let's have a special mention to the Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach for Linda and Flora Anna for 27. These movies provide outstanding storytelling while propo

Welcome to our new update about the CGWire company and Kitsu! In this post, you will learn all we did during the past two months. Kitsu 1. Typed columns Metadata columns can now be typed. We introduced checkboxes and number columns. It is now easier for you to represent data. More will come later. If you want to see a specific type, let us know! 2. Search Engine In partnership with Monello Production, we improved significantly the search engine. You can now perform a search in names and met

Behind every advanced software, there is a team. Kitsu started as a one-person project, but while the adoption increased, it required more care in every aspect, from hosting to support. It's where I decided to build a team, starting with my business partner, Gwénaëlle! Then, Nicolas Ledez and Evan Blaudy joined us to ensure we offer a solid backend for our customer projects. Recently, the demand for features and related maintenance increased significantly. That's why it was time to hire someone

From now on, we'll publish our bi-monthly update on our blog. Before that, it was shared only on our Discords. But we would like to make it available to all newcomers. That's why you will now be able to read it directly from here! Kitsu We had a lot of new Kitsu users in the past months. In terms of maintenance, it was very intense. Nevertheless, we found the time for adding new features: 1. Sequence and Episode tasks You can add tasks at the sequence and episode levels. It's handy to manage

we worked out a partnership between Ranch and Kitsu: Ranch will offer free credits to Kitsu clients, and Ranch customers will receive one month free on their Kitsu subscription! Please, contact us for details.

Pete Draper, Makuta VFX Co-Founder, following their work on the RRR movie (one of the biggest blockbusters in India), accepted to share with us his experience of Kitsu. He told us how he took advantage of Kitsu to ship the production on time despite tight deadlines and unexpected covid lockdowns.

Deploying a web server can be done quite easily. An IT willing to spend several days on it will achieve it for sure. But the problem is that running a cloud application is not about setting the web service, it's about managing the unexpected.

Recently, Ftrack, one of the main production trackers on the market, was acquired by a hedge fund name PSG. Until then, Ftrack was the biggest challenger of Shotgrid, the Autodesk tracking system. In some ways, it was our main competitor.

A few words about Miyu Founded in 2009 by Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Miyu Productions is a TV production company specializing in animation. They create short and feature films alongside TV series. Since its inception, the company carries a strict editorial direction for all its projects. Miyu and Kitsu In this customer story, Carole, Production Manager at Miyu, will tell us how she implemented Kitsu in her studio. Carole, can you tell us more about you? I have always been passionate about animati

Learn how Fost Studio has set up Kitsu for their teams. Through their use of your solution, you will be able to understand better the benefits provided.

While discussing with our customers and watching their Kitsu, we figured out that they do interesting things that we didn't expect. In this blog post, we want to share with you a few tips coming from their usage. To make this post even better, we added two highlights on the hidden features of Kitsu.

Who is Autour de Minuit? For those who don't know, Autour de Minuit is a French film production company created in 2001 by Nicolas Schmerkin. Over time, the editorial line opened up to other genres and audiences such as documentaries, music videos, fiction or animation for kids and families. Now the company has two studios, one in Paris and one in Angoulême. Paris' studioThree years after the creation they realized that they also wanted to get into the distribution of animation and digital wo

As you know, we have worked hard for years on building Kitsu. We embraced a vision where creativity should be supported by Free and Open Source software. We have always considered that freelancers, students, hobbyists should access the same technologies as corporations.

Today, a major milestone has been reached by the Kitsu project: Epic Games, one of the biggest video game publisher, showed interest in our mission. They saw the importance of more efficient collaboration for the creative industry.

In 2019, the CGWire project made significant progress: dozens of studios tracked their plans with it, and 10 CG Schools adopted it for…

Since the beginning of CGWire, most of the development we do is sponsored by CG studios. When a company wants to see some specific…

Since the beginning of CGWire, CG studios sponsored most of the development we do. When a company wants to see some specific features in…

Since the beginning of CGWire, CG studios sponsored most of the development we do. When a company wants to see some specific features in…

Since the beginning of CGWire, most of the development we do is sponsored by CG studios. When a company wants to see some specific…

Since the beginning of CGWire, most of the development we do is sponsored by CG studios. When a company wants to see some specific features…

Since the beginning of CGWire, most of the development we do is sponsored by CG studios. When a company wants to see some specific…

If you’ve been following our project you probably noticed that recently  CGWire made significant progress: productions tracked with our…

One of the key point of production management is to have up to date information about the current state of the production. One of the key point of production management is to have up to date information about the current state of the production. It ensures that everyone is on the same page and that

The Annecy Festival is to animation movies what is Cannes Festival to traditional movies. It’s the opportunity for producers, directors and…

When we started CGWire we were looking for open-source technologies to go faster to build CG pipelines. We found numerous of them but it…

Everytime we visit a studio or discuss with a CG Artist about pipelining, the question of the file hierarchy comes at some point. It may…

Agile methodologies are well known among the web industry. They are designed to handle unpredictability of building software, especially in…

Every shot in a CG production is made of assets built mainly by Modeling and Setup departments. These assets can be of any kind: character…

Past month was very busy for CGWire. On november 13th we introduced our software solution at a CG event that occured annually at Angoulême…

We all have our own way of working. Depending on our context, our team or our culture we can approach the exact same problem with very…

A few months ago, we started a community of CG Pipeline Engineers. To achieve that, we invited people to discuss on a private Slack…

At each step of fabrication, a validation is needed. During the process, there are numerous back-and-forth between producers, directors and…

As we mentioned in a previous blog post, A CG production can be represented as a graph structure. A movie is made of shots which are…

Having a shared database for all your tools is mandatory to ensure a good flow between them. But sometimes you need a simpler access to…

For CG artists, working on a new file which is clean means more productivity. When nodes are properly named, when positions of elements are…

One the principal reason to track every file and asset in a production is to manage the dependencies between them. It’s crucial to know…

In any field, whatever your expertise level is, it’s a good idea to stop by in order to study the state of the art of your profession. Our…

The render farm allows graphic designers and render team to submit computing jobs to a range of server. That way they can handle very…

In a CG production CG artists are rockstars. Management and Technical Directors make sure they’d have everything they will need in order to…

One of the most critical action of a production is the validation step. Every assets and components built must be reviewed by directors and…

File storage is still a big issue for any CG production. The many softwares involved lead to a constellation of files in which it’s hard to…

The thing to understand about production management is the main steps of a movie production. You probably already know these concepts. But…

The softwares involved in a CG production are key components of the project success. Which is why, to be able to evolve in this field…

CGWire is a new company that allows graphic designers and producers to focus more on the artistic side of their work. We propose software…