01Drawings cannot show flow
A layout drawing shows where equipment stands. What the client must judge is how goods travel, where vehicles give way and which junction jams.
INDUSTRY / AGV & AMR
3D animation for AGV and AMR logistics automation
A layout drawing shows where the machines stand, not how goods move. Animation lays out routes, fleet behaviour and human-robot avoidance in one continuous take.
The hard part of a logistics automation project is rarely the hardware. It is getting the owner, the tender panel and the shop-floor team to picture the same thing. Layout drawings give position but no motion; a scheduling dashboard gives numbers but no sense of space. Animation fills exactly that gap — time and space opened up at once.
WHY IT IS HARD
Static material cannot carry this argument
02The software value is invisible
Scheduling logic, slot strategy and order batching are the most valuable and least explainable part of the package. Dashboard screenshots do not show why it is fast.
03The site does not exist yet
At tender and review stage the warehouse is often an empty shell, or still a field. There is nothing to film.
04Everyone pictures something different
Integrator, owner and contractor each hold their own version. Three drawing revisions later the pictures still do not match.
WHAT WE ANIMATE
The shots a film usually contains
We do not render the whole warehouse. We agree the three to five rules this version must land, then build shot by shot.
- 01
Site-wide routes
One overhead move carries fleet behaviour: main aisles, junction queuing, passing, the trip to the charging bay — all on a shared timeline.
- 02
Vehicle structure and motion
Steering wheels, lift-and-rotate decks, pick-up sequences — the capabilities land on real mechanics, not on a moving box.
- 03
Slot-to-slot flow
A pallet from dock to storage, to pick face, to outbound trailer, continuous and without cuts.
- 04
Mixed traffic and safety
Safety distances, slow-down zones and e-stop triggers made visible — the question every review panel asks and no paragraph answers.
- 05
Scheduling data overlay
Paths, task allocation and hot spots layered onto the picture, so the software has a visible place to land.
RELATED WORK
Logistics and plant films already public
These are finished films you can open now to see routes and pacing.
AGV logistics / Route demo / Yard visualization
AGV / AMR · Logistics Yard
Lines & logistics / Selected work
Warehouse Logistics — Animation Showcase
Lines & logistics / Selected work
In-Plant Logistics — Final Film
Lines & logistics / Selected work
Outside-Plant Logistics — Final Film
DELIVERY
Delivery
- Resolution
- 1080P as standard, 4K on request for large screens
- Format
- MP4 / H.264 — drops into slides, tender documents and trade-show loops
- Camera language
- Overhead master shots, detail close-ups, cut-aways
- Modelling basis
- Layout drawings, equipment drawings or photographs
- Schedule
- About four days per finished minute, from confirmed materials and script
PRICING
What this kind of project costs
Charged per finished second, 110–250 CNY. A one-minute film is roughly 6.6k–15k, three minutes 20k–45k. Site-wide route shots need comparatively little modelling and sit at the lower end; cut-aways, internal structure and data overlays push towards the upper end. The shot-by-shot estimate governs.
See the full pricing note ↗FAQ
Three questions we get on logistics projects
We only have CAD layouts and equipment photos — is that enough?
Yes. Layouts build the site and routes; equipment is modelled from drawings or photographs. Shots that need modelling from scratch are quoted separately and itemised in the estimate.
Our scheduling logic is complex. Can animation carry it?
Yes, once we agree which rules this version must land. Three to five core rules per film reads clearly; all of them at once reads as a list and gets remembered as none.
Can it go into a tender document or on a show screen?
Yes. The film is MP4 — it embeds in slides and tender files, and loops directly on a trade-show screen at whatever resolution the screen needs.
INDUSTRY / AGV & AMR
Send the layout and the equipment list
With a layout drawing I can come back with three shot ideas and a rough runtime — and a preliminary quote within 30 minutes of complete materials.
Start a projectLET’S MAKE IT CLEAR
The next shot
is your product.
A machine drawing, a paragraph of notes, or an idea that is not shaped yet. We start with what you want the audience to understand.
Start a projectMechanics / Production / ProductKAIFENG, CHINA · EST. 2022