Golaem Crowd offers some great crowd simulation tools for Autodesk Maya, that is built to be artist friendly way to set up and animate digital characters.
Golaem Crowd offers an intuitive interface, based on Maya workaday objects.
Here, The Golaem Crowd offers a short and concise 10 minute tutorial shows how to get up and running using Golaem Crowd in Maya. This covers all the basics for getting started with creating a crowd simulation, rendering it, and then showing how you can modify the cache animation even after the simulation is complete.
Golaem Crowd is a plugin that has pretty good Maya integration and makes it affordable for artists to skip the technical stuff needed and begin populating scenes with directable digital characters. Artists from all over the industry use Golaem Crowd to bring ommercials, episodic productions, feature films and games to life.
As an example, Rhythm & Hues used Golaem Crowd to create inhabitants of the city of Meereen cheering in the fighting pit on the last season of Game of Thrones.
