The Lightning Artist Toolkit (Latk) provides a complete pipeline for
hand-drawn volumetric animation—a common exchange file format, a set of ML models, and plugins to integrate 3D drawings into a wide range of XR projects. Readable in any popular 3D graphics application and ready to use in real-world production scenarios, Latk's goal is to make creation in 3D as expressive and intuitive as drawing in 2D.
A note about the name: early animators like Winsor McCay first created their work for a live audience in vaudeville halls—and they were billed as “lightning artists.”
You can use Latk files in:
Papers:
Datasets:
Additional Unity support:
Additional Blender I/O formats:
- After Effects JSX (write)
- ASC point cloud
- Corel Painter script
- Graffiti Markup Language / GML
- NormanVR
- Quill (read)
- SculptrVR CSV
- Sketchfab FBX sequence (write)
- SVG SMIL animation (write)
- Open Brush / Tilt Brush (read)
- Unreal XYZ point cloud (write)
- VRDoodler
Supported in part by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (752-2023-2691).