Check out all the cool work from 2005-2006 in this reel.  With new footage from Stranglehold, Age of Empires and MLB 2006.  Music and editing by Orazio Fantini.

Atlantic Studios used AI.implant to create incredible, film-quality armies for this visually stunning epic.

Mondo Studios used AI.implant to produce complex cut scenes such as buffalo stampedes across uneven terrain, 18th century military formations, advanced infantry animation control, and squad-based obstacle avoidance while ascending a hilly terrain for upcoming Age of Empires 3 by Microsoft Ensemble Studios.  

Gray Matter FX used AI.implant to create fantastical schools of fish in Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Atlantic Productions used AI.implant to quickly and cost-effectively create a wide range of SFX shots including scores of Egyptian slave, as well as vast crowds depicted in the crossing of the red sea.

This exploration of Sony Computer Entertainment America's use of AI.implant on their MLB 2006 title looks at the specific challenges of animating a stadium full of cheering crowds.  The SCEA team talks about how they created crowd variations, unpredictability, and ambient activity to make the visuals of this great game even better!

The rendering of large crowd sequences using Artificial Intelligence (AI) software is a technique that has been used very effectively in a number of recent movies and is starting to appear in games. Powered by AI.implant, this demonstration shows the vertex shader processing power of the X800 graphics card from ATI Technologies being used to render a large crowd of soldiers (1400 in total) running across a rocky terrain. All of the models feature weighted, skinned vertices, and are independently animated. Additional techniques used in this demo are ambient occlusion (used for shadowing) and fluid simulation on the GPU (for the smoke).

In this thriller from 20th Century Fox, Frantic Films used AI.implant to animate hundreds of evil spiders as they move through a building, climb up the walls and crawl over bodies.

In this beautiful demo of life under the ocean, ICT (University of Southern California) used AI.implant to control and animate the school of fish as they move past a coral reef.

As the scene begins, crowds of civilians are massed in a market square when an army helicopter suddenly appears. As members of the crowd begin to detect the approaching helicopter, word spreads. Frightened civilians begin a panicked run for cover. As the exits from the square become congested some individuals will change tack, backtracking to look for other ways out while maintaining cover from the helicopter. When the helicopter finally lands, the village square is nearly empty.

In this demo, 13,000 AI characters (yes, 13,000!) run into battle. The hordes of attackers flow towards the enemy while (intelligently) avoiding each other based on a group avoidance behavior. The defending crowd sees the oncoming onslaught and prepares for battle by bracing itself for the impact. On a technical note, all of the characters have varied speed-adjusted animations, as well as weight, which means they don't slip, and adhere to the ground surface.  The entire scene was easily managed and rendered on a standard Maya renderfarm - no compositing trickery, just pure AI.implant goodness!