Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.

Get Adobe Flash player

 


Syflex – The Cloth Simulator

 

 

 

 

SyFlex in "The Tale of Despereaux"

Interview with Sylvain Degrotte, Cloth Supervisor on "The Tale of Despereaux" at Framestore Feature Animation. Framestore used Syflex to dress 25 hero characters and 12 secondary characters.

SyFlex 3.9 available on Maya 2009

With a faster than ever cloth simulation, you can add more complexity and more realism to all your clothes. On a quad-core, the new multi-threaded version of Syflex is now up to 15 times faster than any other cloth simulator on the market. If you have annual maintenance, ask for your free upgrade!

Sylene is demoing SyFlex

Our cloth simulator was used in The Golden Compass, Spider Man 3, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Silver Surfer, Pirates of the Caribbean, King Kong, Superman, Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, among other notable feature films. SyFlex was used in numerous other projects, animated TV shows, commercials, game cinematics and short films (check out our news page to get a quick overview). Our clients used it to simulate cloth, hair, flesh, skin, ropes, sails, ghosts and even water. Some of the projects are reviewed in detail in our gallery pages. Designed by Steven Stahlberg, Sylene wears only SyFlex. We have two demo clips showing off how nice and easy it is to animate a dress, a pair of pants and a blouse. House of Moves provided the motion capture and we rendered Sylene dances in two different outfits. The simulation ran at 4 seconds per frame in both cases and none of the 1150 frames in this animation required any modification.

SyFlex - The Cloth Simulator

SyFlex is the cloth simulator behind many of the realistic cloth animations seen in current 3D productions, special effects sequences in feature films and in commercials. SyFlex features an incredibly fast and stable engine, and while the comprehensive set of tools provided with the plugin allows to create a wide range of effects, the package is extremely simple to operate, and turns the creation of digital cloth into an easy task.

SyFlex is available for:

  • Maya 2009 / 2008 / 8.5 / 8.0 (all OS supported by Maya)
  • XSIs
  • Houdini (Linux)
  • LightWave 9.3 (Windows)
  • 3ds Max 9.0 (Windows)