Stephanie Michaels Univah on Github
Founder & CEO, The Stephanie Michaels Software Company

Creator of The Univah Film Engine™, make me™ and rReligionVFX™.

Introducing Univah Pro™ – The First-Ever Film Engine

Thank you for considering the addition of Univah Pro to your 3D animation and rendering pipeline.

The Problem: There Was No Film Engine

Game Engines Aren’t Built for Filmmakers

Before 2022, the concept of a film engine didn’t exist. after writing our first animated short The Book of Revelation, (IMDb) We went searching for a modern tool to bring our film to life—something powerful, real-time, and built with storytelling in mind. What we found instead were game engines—great for interactive content but never intended for film. Filmmakers like us were forced to repurpose tools meant for games into something that could work for cinema. It was clunky, time-consuming, and creatively limiting.

The Breakthrough: Univah Pro Is the Engine We Needed

After two years of intensive research, dozens of conversations with industry experts, and deep dives into graphics research papers, we stopped waiting for someone else to build what we needed—and built it ourselves.

Univah Pro is the result:
🎞️ A modern, C++-based real-time rendering software
💡 Built from the ground up for filmmakers, animators, and VFX artists
⚡ Fusing the best of Maya, Houdini, and modern game engines—without the long learning curve

Real-Time, No Compromises

The Univah Film Engine™ renders cinematic-quality visuals directly in the viewport.
Take a look at the actual screenshots captured from inside Univah’s real-time environment: Watch Video Here

Filmmakers don't want game looking graphics.
So, we give them higher than game engine graphics. We give them Film Quality graphics. Houdini level graphics. But in real time. Watch Video Here! This is a Film Engine™. And for those who want something less photorealistic, we provide Hollywood level toon shaders at the click of a button. No overly complex node graphs. No struggling (for hours) to make a new rendering style yourself.

The look we’ve achieved rivals what Houdini users produce after hours of rendering, but we’re doing it instantly in real time.
Therefore: We can truthfully say “Univah Pro delivers Houdini-level visual fidelity — in real time.”

Why Univah Pro is Different

✅ Film-Centric Workflow:
No need to hack together cinematic pipelines in a game engine. Univah Pro is made for directors and storytellers, not coders.

✅ VFX + Real-Time Raymarching:
Built-in Raymarch Editor lets you define volumetrics, procedural geometry, and SDF effects—all in real time.

✅ Custom Chemistry Lab for College Professors and College Students:
Our Trade Marked rReligion™ custom VFX Engine that uses the real periodic table to create particles.

✅ Intuitive UI, Maximum Power:
We believe professional tools shouldn’t be painful. Univah gets out of your way, and puts creativity front and center.

🎮 Game Engine Power: Leverages modern graphics APIs for performance akin to top-tier game engines.

✅ Freedom to Create:
Our EULA is simple and creator-first. You retain full rights to everything you make. Sell it anywhere. No strings attached.

✅ Using Real-Time as a Selling Point

This is one of our most powerful differentiators:

Game engines like Unreal Engine are real-time, yes — but they’re not designed with filmmakers in mind.
Univah Pro is a filmmaking-first engine that offers real-time cinematic results, without repurposing game logic or tools.
That means:
- Directors and animators can iterate rapidly.
- Cinematographers can preview lighting setups live.
- Teams save enormous time and rendering costs.

That’s not just a feature — it’s a revolution in workflow.

rReligion™ VFX - The Power of the Periodic Table, now at your fingertips! Add elements together, watch them react in real time! Univah is the only software that has this feature. It is a custom proprietary VFX system designed exclusively for our software. it is copyright protected and trademarked to our software.

Legal Stuff / Copy Cats / Law Suits:

We See You!
We’ve noticed the growing number of developers and companies quietly reshaping their tools to mimic ours.
While imitation might be the highest form of flattery, silence is not.
Let us be clear:
You don’t get to copy our work in private while not acknowledging us in public.
Until we see genuine public appreciation and professional respect for what we’re building,
our software trial will remain private and invite-only. You will test the product for 1 hour under our supervision.
We’re not here to feed silent imitators.
We’re here for those who recognize vision, support originality, and aren’t afraid to say it out loud.
If you speak poorly about our product in public, but in secret, you are secretly copying our videos and trying
to transform other software to be more like ours, that below average behavior is exactly what we rebuke.

If you’re inspired by what we’re doing, speak up. Say so Publicly!

Tweet us on X, you can tag us on 5 positive features you like about Univah pro.
Until then—access is earned, not assumed.