CGI & 3D Animation

Here is how it adds up. Colombia's CGI and 3D animation capacity grown sharply during the Encanto (Disney 2021) production cycle, where Colombian artists worked in animation and supervisory roles across the Disney Toon Boom Harmony and Maya pipeline. Our planning places projects with Pixelio Animation Studios Medellín, Estudio Cuatro Medellín, Limonero Films Bogotá, and Toma Uno Bogotá, drawing on the Encanto-era talent pool that has character-animation and storyboard artists in the Liliana Cuca and Lorenzo Jaramillo lineage.

Here is what we have to work with. Pipeline tools span Maya, Houdini, Cinema 4D with Octane and Redshift, ZBrush and Substance Painter for asset creation, and Toon Boom Harmony for the 2D animation work that defines the Encanto visual register. Crew is fed by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de los Andes, and PUJ Centro Ático animation programs. This have meaningfully scaled the country's character-rigging and shading-network talent pool over the past five years.

Here is the layout. Look work routinely draws on the García Márquez Macondo magical-realism aesthetic. The Casa Madrigal pastel-palette register Disney set up with Encanto, alongside the pre-Columbian Quimbaya, Tairona, and Muisca gold-work motif heritage that informs character and prop design. Botero painting and sculpture (the Medellín-native artist), the Carnaval de Barranquilla UNESCO intangible aesthetic, and the literary Macondo custom all sit within ready reference reach for our art-direction briefings.

Here is how the work shapes up. Photorealistic rendering is delivered through in person-based ACES-linear pipelines with Arnold, Redshift, V-Ray, and Octane. Real-time work supports Unreal Engine for virtual production and previs. Character animation covers rigging, motion-capture cleanup, keyframe animation, and facial animation. Timelines scale from days for product visualisations to multi-month delivery for tricky character or environment work, with bilingual EN/ES creative direction and Disney+ / Netflix Latam / HBO Max LatAm pipeline integration handled across review cycles via Frame.io and ftrack.