Tafi Expands to British Columbia

Earlier this year, Tafi successfully opened its Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.) office, with plans to double its staff in Canada by the end of 2022. The B.C. office will focus on content production for both of Tafi’s primary brands, Tafi and Daz 3D.

Oct 26, 2021

Everything You Need to Know About Tafi’s New Astra SDK 2.6 Update

We’ve been busy doing everything we can to make Astra better than ever, and we are proud of the results! 2.6 has brought several key updates that we wanted to take a moment to fill you in on.

Oct 13, 2021

Tafi Employee Spotlight: Gary Lai, Creative Director

Meet Gary Lai, Tafi’s Creative Director, and learn more about his work experience in the avatar space, career advice, and other fun facts.

Sep 20, 2021

Fortune Recognizes Tafi's Success in Emerging NFT Industry

Tafi and other key players in the NFT space were recently highlighted in a Fortune article discussing NFT launch tips for designers, artists, and brands.

Sep 14, 2021

Tafi and Highstreet Partner to Bring High-Quality Avatars into Highstreet's Virtual Worlds

Tafi, the leading provider of 3D avatar solutions, today announced a partnership with Highstreet, the world's first commerce-centric metaverse, to bring Tafi's avatars into Highstreet's virtual worlds.

Sep 10, 2021

Tafi Employee Spotlight: Emmalee Hurst, Trainer

It’s time to meet Emmalee Hurst, our next Tafi employee spotlight. Not only is she a Trainer for our Customer Support team, but she also works with our Quality Assurance team to sort out any product bugs. She’s been with us for almost seven years now, and we’re excited to share this amazing person with you!

Aug 19, 2021

Tafi Joins Vibrant Vancouver Tech Hub with New Canadian Entity

Tafi is pleased to announce the planned opening of a second office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A recently formed Canadian entity, Tafi-Canada, has been operating in and around Vancouver since 2020 in a remote work model. The Tafi-Canada team will be moving into the new offices in early 2022.

Aug 18, 2021

Tafi Partners in Coca-Cola's First-Ever NFT Collectibles In Support of International Friendship Day

Tafi-Designed NFTs including Decentraland Wearables Will Be Part of 92-Hour Auction Beginning July 30th, with Proceeds Benefiting Special Olympics International

Jul 28, 2021

Ship AAA Game-Ready Avatars in Amazon’s O3DE Engine with Tafi’s SDK Integration Tools

We started Tafi with the dream of making world-class avatar and character systems. Witnessing that dream come true is, well, a dream come true! We have created a powerful tool for developers we call our Astra SDK (software development kit). This means any developer can easily integrate our customizable avatar system into their own product. It’s easy to use and the results are well worth the day or so it takes to implement the package. (Seriously, check out this post to see how fast it took one of our partners to get our SDK up and running!)

Jul 27, 2021

Tafi Avatars and Coca-Cola: Repping Your Favorite Beverage Brand

Since the first Coca-Cola fountain opened in 1886, the company has boomed on creativity and innovation, making their brand a literal American cultural icon. Absolute deliciousness aside, Coca-Cola has rocked it in the advertising department year after year. Whether it’s that enticing red color or a heartwarming ad, Coke knows how to get their product to stick.

Jul 21, 2021

Daz 3D Announces Exciting New Offering - Enterprise Licensing

Daz 3D, the leader in 3D digital art and creator of the free 3D platform Daz Studio, announced a new enterprise licensing structure that will enable companies to more easily incorporate content from the Daz Marketplace into their teams' workflows.

Jul 21, 2021

Tafi Employee Spotlight: Breanna Kilpack, Content Production Coordinator

Here at Tafi, we’re proud of the variety of content we offer (and continue to make!) to represent diverse lifestyles, identities, and cultures. And Breanna Kilpack, our Content Production Coordinator on the Daz 3D side of Tafi, plays a crucial role behind the scenes to bring you exciting new content daily. They’ve been with us for a year and a half now, and we’re excited to share more about another incredible person on our team.

Jul 16, 2021

Tafi Partners with AWS, Linux Foundation, and Others to Form Open-Source 3D Engine Project

Tafi, the leading creator of custom 3D content for avatar and emoji systems, today announced that it is joining the Open 3D Engine (O3DE) project as a founding member. The O3DE project is an open-source, full-featured, high-fidelity, real-time 3D engine for building games and simulations for every industry.

Jul 6, 2021

Daz 3D, a Tafi Co Subsidiary, and Institute of Digital Fashion Launch Partnership and Digital Double for Pride

Daz 3D, a subsidiary of Tafi Co and a leader in 3D digital art, and the Institute of Digital Fashion (IoDF), a digital strategy and innovation institute that is a driving force in digital diversity and inclusion in the fashion industry, today released the first drop in their much anticipated partnership, a non-binary and photorealistic digital double, Catty 8.1.

Jun 28, 2021

Tafi announces Partnership with The Diigitals, the World's First All-Digital Modeling Agency

Tafi, a leader in 3D digital art and avatar systems and developer of the Daz 3D character system, announced an official partnership with The Diigitals, the world's first all-digital fashion and modeling agency and creators of Shudu the first digital supermodel.

Jun 15, 2021

Apocalypse Studios Selects Tafi's Character Creator SDK for Meta-Gaming

Apocalypse Studios, the AAA game studio behind Deadhaus Sonata, today announced a partnership with Tafi, the leading provider of 3D avatar solutions, to use Tafi's avatar and character creator technology for both in-game use and beyond.

Jun 10, 2021

Tafi Employee Spotlight: Ben Shepard, Manager of Business and Consumer Intelligence

We have yet another outstanding human needing introduction: Ben Shepard.

Jun 9, 2021

Tafi Partners with Music Industry Icons at PIXELYNX

Tafi, the leading provider of 3D avatar solutions, today announced a partnership with PIXELYNX, the new gaming venture created by iconic musicians and technologists Joel Zimmerman aka deadmau5, Richie Hawtin aka Plastikman, and music industry visionaries Ben Turner, Dean Wilson, and Inder Phull.

May 31, 2021

Tafi Announces New Campaign with VRChat Featuring Updating Nikei Avatar

Tafi, the leading provider of 3D avatar solutions, announced it is teaming up with VRChat to enhance the customer experience by providing new avatar styles and improved access to Tafi's content. As part of the collaboration, Tafi will release a new and updated Nikei character in VRChat, a callback to the original avatar in VRChat that was launched back in 2017. VRChat has grown to become the largest virtual reality social platform, accessible to users both with a VR headset and on the PC. VRChat and Tafi continue to build on a longstanding relationship, with Tafi having created some of the first VRChat avatars.

May 18, 2021