Bringing your mascot to life
Our industry-leading real-time interactive animations bring laughter and
wonder to theme parks, FECs, museums and shopping malls across the globe.
Animalive
Our Projects
Animalive is the leader manufacturer of IAAPA award-winning interactive animation products.
Our products are used in: theatrical shows, edutainment, themed attractions, party room hosting and interactive information points.
Graham Norton Show
UK, 2011
LOONEY TUNES
Animalive’s first IAAPA award winner:
real-time animated characters with pre-recorded voices integrated with a client’s live mascot for Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes theatre shows.
BBC Merlin
Animalive collaborated with Merlin Entertainments to develop and build the interactive visitor experience The Dragon Tower at Warwick Castle. Animalive created a live CGI “Great Dragon”, an experience that mixes real-time CGI with live special FX for a fully immersive fantasy experience.
BBC Graham Norton Show
Animalive were invited to appear on BBC1’s The Graham Norton Show: comedian Rob Brydon performed as a panda character alongside actors Kate Winslet and Jamie Bell, showcasing motion capture technology’s capacity for interactivity and entertainment.
CHESSINGTON WORLD OF ADVENTURES
Animalive’s first 3D photo-realistic model, Chessington’s lemur showcased texture and movement capabilities by utilising “clumped fur” technology.
Environment: Merlin/Chessington team; character development, design and build: Animalive.
UNIVERSE SCIENCE PARK
Designed in collaboration with the client who subsequently bought its full ownership and licensing rights, Robert the Robot is a bespoke character utilised by the venue for entertainment and education through live animated interaction.
TABATINGA
Animalive’s first live party room interactive shows: AnimaChat systems installed across three venues, connected and controlled by a single operator from one location to deliver short participatory party room performances.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
ULTIMATE EXPLORER
Incorporating technology capable of animating individual hair and whisker strands across the entire model, Baruti the Meerkat is Animalive’s interactive mascot commissioned and shown by National Geographic across two locations. Animalive have also developed an orangutan utilising the same technology.
Barbie
And here’s Anima-Live!’s Barbie installation, just recently set up and now open in Dubai.
- Your choice of either standard or bespoke software.
- Facial capture generating your character’s real-time animated reactions.
- Utilizing choice of touchscreen monitor or tablet.
- Operator is stationed in and interacts as character from separate room.
Theme Park Magic
We Love Characters
Wow your crowds with our show-stopping, cutting- edge technologies for 2-way conversations between an audience and characters ranging from simple to photo-realistic ones.
Peripheral Digital Entertainment
Augmented Reality
We can place your digitised mascots onto touch-screens and digital displays across your venue, as well as your customers' devices.
What our customers say
Danfos, Universe
"Animalive has been a solid part of Universe Science Park since 2013. With the use of Animalive the Robert Robot character and his features have charmed, surprised and entertained our guests in the daily Robert Robot Show."
Dynamic Earth
"We all love Animalive and it has been a very robust system, little in the way of downtime in nearly 8 years and is still very popular and often mentioned positively in customer feedback."
Tabatinga
"'Are you real?''Are you really in the rainforest?''Can you take me to the rainforest?'These are some of the comments we hear back from excited children when they get to see and talk in real-time to Ranger Tabatha."
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