Challenge: creating vehicle movement that is realistic. This is labor intensive, and achieving complex movement is beyond the reasonable ability of animators.

Solution: SWAY Studio has created a software program that draws on the laws of physics to simulate realistic vehicle performance in real-time using a steering wheel.

SWAY's Drive a Tron^TM software simulates the physics of cars in full 3D, taking into account not only the physical properties of the car body, but also the engine, drive train, suspension, and even the dynamic deformations of the tires riding over rough terrain. This all happens in real time, with the artist literally in the driver's seat.

This means a director can exercise his vision in terms of what cars do, instead of what animators do. A ten-second shot takes ten seconds to simulate, so many takes can be done in a short amount of time.

The risks and costs of getting a crew out to shoot real cars are eliminated. At the same time, the guesswork and time cost associated with traditionally animating cars are also eliminated.