Layer Update (Dec ‘24) - Wrapping up a year of growth 🎁

It’s been an amazing year for Layer. We’re incredibly humbled by the amount of studios using Layer every day to power their creations. Our goal has always been to make game development easier, faster, and more accessible - and we’re laser focused on that going into 2025.

As a quick recap, alongside a massive amount of updates to our core 2D functionality we’ve added a Realtime live canvas, 3D generations, new models like FLUX, copyright compliance with BRIA, enterprise data security features, and much much more.

We’re capping off the year with some big additions to our 3D generation tool, adding the popular Trellis 3D model, as well as Rodin 3D - joining our existing Tripo AI model. This is alongside updates for 2D generation, including new editing capabilities for FLUX, custom style support for our Realtime canvas, advanced settings, new image ratio options for all models, and more.

Platform Updates ⚙️

Improvements and changes to the Layer platform. 

New Features

• New models for 3D generation. We’re excited to announce Layer is the first (and fastest) platform to offer all three SOTA models for game studios to generate 3d assets and export in different file formats: obj & glb.

Platform Improvements

• Editing with FLUX: Fun fact: Did you know Layer was the first gen-AI platform to add a canvas with layers? Well, now we’re extending that functionality to include the FLUX model, letting you tap into the power of FLUX with the full breadth of our editing Canvas.
• Reference images are now fully supported with Flux: Pose, Canny, Structure, Segmentation
• Custom styles are now fully supported for Realtime: Train custom styles and
• Improved image ratios: 16:9 ratio generations are now supported for all models: BRIA, FLUX, SDXL
• Advanced generation settings: Ability to set default denoising steps and guidance scales for all styles + base and max shift for FLUX.
• UI improvements: Updated the style tiles for reduced visual load and added more user friendly loading screens across the Layer app.

The latest from #TeamLayer 📰

News, updates, and changes to the Layer team. Basically, everything that doesn’t involve lines of code.

New 3D models: Trellis, Tripo, & Rodin now on Layer

With our latest updates, we’re thrilled to announce new cutting-edge 3D models inside the Layer tool: Trellis 3D by Microsoft and Rodin by Hyper3d will be joining our initial model offering, Tripo AI.

Pocket Gamer London ‘25

We’re back as a major sponsor for Pocket Gamer London on Jan 20-21, supporting one of the biggest games conferences in the world. Join us as we lead the AI Advances talk track with sessions from Layer!

Layer x Shanghai Vancouver Film School: Bringing innovative gen-AI to students

With Layer Pro accounts for 2D & 3D asset creation + custom AI coursework, we’re helping students build the skills they need for the future of gamedev, film, and animation.

Update from the CEO: Volkan Gurel

What’s next for Layer? Volkan speaks to his family experience, elves, and a bit of what’s to come in 2025. This glimpse into what’s possible hints at an exciting future for video creation…

Featured channel: X/Twitter

Looking for the latest tutorials and workflows from the Layer team? Be sure to follow our account on X where we post daily content designed to support gamedevs.

Looking Ahead 🔮

It’s always exciting going into a new year with endless possibilities, and we have BIG plans. 

We’ve always approached Layer with the question: How do we make the production and scaling of games easier?

We know a big challenge for every game studio is jumping between tools to build all the pieces of a game, from 2D to 3D, to audio, to video, and more. It’s disruptive, hard to lock down into one workflow, and costs studios thousands of dollars in licensing fees. 

Over the next year you will see us roll out major features designed to bring everything you need into a truly seamless workflow for all types of game media creation.  Our end goal being all you need to create a game is Layer + an engine like Unity, Unreal, etc. 

Anyways, more on that later. 

What we really wanted to end on is: Thank you. Our community is everything to us and we’re looking forward to another year helping bring your dreams to life. Things are only getting started.

See you soon.

#TeamLayer