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

Tafi Brings Fresh New 3D Avatar Content to Global Roblox Users

Tafi, the leading creator of custom 3D content for avatar and emoji systems, today announced that it is bringing fun and exciting 3D avatar content to Roblox, a global platform bringing millions of people together through shared experiences.

May 6, 2021

Bridging the Gap Between People and Tech with Tafi Avatars

Tafi loves helping people express themselves with avatars that show off all their best traits. That’s why we created Astra. We want to put this amazing tool in the hands of other developers and spread our love of awesome avatars.

Apr 27, 2021

Tafi Employee Spotlight

Wes Greaves, Senior Character Artist

Apr 18, 2021

Tafi Launches New Avatar Astra SDK

Tafi, the leading creator of custom 3D content for avatar and emoji systems, today announced the release of its innovative Astra Software Development Kit (SDK). Tafi's Astra SDK is a unique, feature-packed, fully customizable avatar platform made for a wide range of developers, from small independent teams to established companies and studios.

Apr 15, 2021

Tafi and Unity Bring Daz 3D's Products to the Unity Asset Store

Tafi, the avatar company and developer of the Daz 3D character system, has worked with Unity to bring Daz 3D's massive library of diverse products to the Unity Asset Store.

Apr 12, 2021

The Diigitals and Daz 3D Release NFTs of Shudu, The World's First Digital Supermodel

Daz 3D, a subsidiary of Tafi Co and a leader in 3D digital art, today announced the launch of one-of-a-kind NFT digital assets for the first-ever digital supermodel Shudu in partnership with The Diigitals. This exclusive NFT Shudu collection will be available starting March 30, 2021 on OpenSea NFT platform. A percentage of the proceeds will support Black Girls Code, a not-for-profit organization working to increase the number of young women of color, ages 7 to 17, in the digital space by empowering them to become innovators in STEM fields.

Apr 1, 2021

Tafi and Champion® Athleticwear Expand Partnership to Showcase Champion's 2021 Spring Line

Tafi, a leading creator of custom 3D content for avatar and emoji systems, and Champion® Athleticwear today announced the availability of Champion's 2021 Spring Collection for Non-Fungible Tokens ("NFTs") and Samsung Galaxy's AR Emoji.

Mar 31, 2021

The Coolest New Art Trend: NFT and the Future of Digital Content

NFTs are going viral! Back in 2017, CryptoKitties launched as a digital trading game where you can breed your own unique cats on the cryptocurrency platform Ethereum and was one of the first NFTs. Fast forward to 2021, an NFT of a collage of 5,000 photos by artist Beeple sold for $69 million!

Mar 22, 2021