At Layer, we're always thinking about the artist first. Our mission is clear: to empower game studios with tools that serve every need, from concept to scale. As we continue to grow, we’re laser-focused on creating solutions that put creativity, control, and collaboration into the hands of artists.

What’s your future roadmap?

Layer aims to be the best creative suite for creating and scaling games. We have a packed and exciting roadmap to help game studios of any size scale content production. Please find our near term roadmap below:

Disclaimer: AI evolves quickly and so do we. While our priorities may shift as we adapt to new opportunities, our mission remains unchanged. And yes, there’s more in the works than what you see here...we like to keep a few surprises in store.

Video v1 Video generation tools to support marketing and promotional needs, helping studios showcase their games with eye-catching video content Access to state of art video models: Hunyuan, Kling, Minimax, Veo2 Simple video focused on user acquisition and marketing assets (video ads, app store assets, etc) Use of generated 2D assets in video content on Layer Next up? Identify key frames to guide generations, camera controls, motion brush, upscale and ability to composite video assets on Layer	Q4, 2024
3D v1 Simplify the 3D process without sacrificing quality, keeping artists focused on what they do best: creating. Access to the state of art 3d generation models: TripoAI. Rodin by Deemos, Trellis by Microsoft Ability to create high-quality 3D models based on prompts and reference images Next up? Generate complex models with ease, then (eventually) auto-rig and animate creations within the same toolset. More models to be added to the stack	Q4, 2024
2D improvements Expand our already leading 2D tools to cover every professional usecase imaginable. (Yes, even whatever you're thinking!) Enhanced creation features like vector exports. Ability to customize the batch size for generations Refine tool for batch operations such as upscale, remove background, vectorization What's next? Multi-reference guided workflows Color-guided generations that offer greater control over asset creation. Expression generator and poser V2	Q1, 2025
Video improvements Video Upscale tool to increase the quality of videos Identify key frames to guide generations Camera controls Motion brush Ability to composite video assets on Layer	Q2, 2025
Animation v1 Bringing characters to life is a crucial step in game development, and we’re expanding our capabilities to support this. Lipsync animations for characters along with Audio support Simple animations for 3D models within Layer, before export into game engine What's next? 2D Spine and sprite exports In-flow ability to animate 2D sprites with text	Q2, 2025
Audio v1 In addition to visual content, we believe that sound is a critical element of immersive game experiences Seamless tools for generating soundscapes and character voices, all within the same artist-first ecosystem	Q2, 2025
API (Unity AI Beta) Continuation of our partnership with Unity Muse - more robust integrations that make working between Layer and Unity easy and seamless API support that will allow deeper integration into game development pipelines Artists will be able to plug Layer into existing workflows, enabling more powerful and flexible content generation within their favorite tools	Q2, 2025
Prompt Editing Ability to edit a single or multiple images with prompts via Gpt4o, Flux Kontext, Gemini and more	Q2, 2025
Enterprise & Administration Features are designed to scale with the needs of AAA studios and beyond. Advanced Enterprise-grade administration tools, multi-workspace management that offer control over workflows Large-scale asset, workflow management familiar to studios with 100s or 1000s of developers and artists	Q3, 2025
Video Editing Ability to select key frames from a video to be used as a reference or exported Ability to crop expand remove bg from videos	Q3, 2025
Usage Based Billing Consumption-based billing so game studios can pay only for what they use—no high upfront costs, easy onboarding, and the flexibility to pick what fits their workflow Ability to track usage for different models and modalities across the workspace Define and optimize budgets per user & workspace Purchase creative units with discounts that are pooled together for the team's usage	Q3, 2025
Style Trainer V2 Custom styles are Layer's bread and butter, with this update we'll be improving our style training defaults and give more options for advanced training experts. Single UI to train a custom style on Layer Ability to perform crop, upscale, remove background operations for preparing your library for the absolute best training results Improved performance and consistency with latest available training techniques Ability to customize learning rate and epochs	Q3, 2025