From his home studio in Brazil, Anderson Rohr demonstrates his latest 3D animation project. On screen, students in a virtual classroom watch intently as their professor adjusts a telescope, revealing a blue planet on the projection screen. The scene showcases what’s possible when artists work without technical barriers.
“I remember when this would have taken weeks,” Rohr gestures at his modest setup. The founder of Third Move Studios recalls a time when a single scene took 300 hours to render. “You’d have this perfect vision in your head, but by the time the computer finished processing, you’d almost forgotten what inspired you in the first place.”
Today, Rohr’s creative process is transformed. Using a Dell Pro Max PC configured with the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPU, he can make adjustments that appear instantly. As he tweaks the lighting in his virtual classroom, the changes flow seamlessly. No progress bars. No coffee breaks. Just pure creative momentum accelerated with the NVIDIA RTX GPU capabilities.
One artist, infinite possibilities
The technical achievement is astounding, but what’s remarkable about Rohr’s latest project is that he’s created it on his own. “It’s just me,” he says, ” though, I occasionally collaborate with freelancers.” He also used some free and paid assets to compose the scenes.
For independent creators like Rohr, technical limitations used to be creativity killers. Now, he’s free to focus on the details that bring his vision to life. His project files might total 115 GB (57.5 GB for uncompressed EXR sequences), but the final animation compresses beautifully to 1 GB. It’s a testament to how far technology has come.
Building the world around them
Some years ago, Anderson’s girlfriend Josi Goetze interviewed an astrophysicist for another project. Based on some ideas, Rohr decided to create a script for 3D animation. “I wanted to capture a moment of discovery,” Rohr explains. “Not just show it, but make viewers feel it.”
Each student in his virtual classroom has their own personality, crafted using Reblium’s Generative Mode and refined by hand. Their movements were captured through MoCap with DeepMotion; Rohr performed each part himself. He carefully blended body and facial animations together in Unreal Engine until each character felt authentic.
“I have to create the animation twice to fine tune the models. Once for the body and again for the face.” Rohr says. “It’s painstaking work, but the final result is worth it.”
His attention to detail extends beyond the characters. The classroom’s telescope is a fully functional system custom built in Unreal Engine.”I bought a telescope on Fab Marketplace. Then I developed a system that shows on-screen what the telescope sees, similar to connecting a laptop to a projector. Everything updates in real-time.”
Magic happens when Rohr’s tools work together. Using NVIDIA’s Audio2Face with ElevenLabs, Rohr brings his characters’ voices and expressions to life. The result is characters that think, react, and emote naturally. In the past, Rohr fought the technical limitations of what his tools could provide. Today, his suite of tools allows him to focus on his passion as a storyteller.
“Real-time technology allows me to focus on the creative side of my work. This wasn’t possible when rendering a single scene took days.”
When technology disappears
Rohr’s real breakthrough is how long he’s able to stay in creative flow, now. Every artist knows that feeling when technology fades away and their creativity unlocks.
“A few years ago, I was making an animation for a cyberpunk contest. It took more than 300 hours to render all the scenes,” Rohr recalls, “Now, with real-time technology, what I can accomplish is amazing.”
Instead of planning around technical constraints, Rohr follows his instincts. Creative decisions build upon one another without interruption. He’s able to generate momentum that turns ideas into visceral experiences.
“All these AI tools are here to help, not to replace the 3D artist,” Rohr explains.
As he works on his next project, a classroom exploration of black holes, it’s clear that independent animation has entered a new era where technical barriers no longer stand between artists and their vision.
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