An Animator's (Day) Dream

Talks

An Animator's (Day) Dream

Sunday, 9 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB Session Chair: Joe Spataro, Bungie, Inc.


Sketch to Pose in Pixar's Presto Animation System

Key-frame animation is often accomplished using a mouse for direct manipulation of primitives in an animation editor. Pixar has developed a system for posing many primitives at once using a sketched line.

Ryan Stelzleni
PIxar Animation Studios

Bret Parker
PIxar Animation Studios

Tom Hahn
PIxar Animation Studios

Sarah Shen
PIxar Animation Studios

Dan McGarry
PIxar Animation Studios

Chen Shen
PIxar Animation Studios

Silhouette Sketching on "Inside Out"

This new tool enables animators to sculpt silhouettes quickly, in context, without requiring special expertise or technical assistance from riggers. During the making of Disney/Pixar's "Inside Out", this new sketch-based tool saw heavy use for modifying character silhouettes as well as for fine-tuning cloth-simulation results.

Kurt Fleischer
PIxar Animation Studios

Paul Isaacs
Google, Inc.

Bret Parker
PIxar Animation Studios

Sarah Shen
PIxar Animation Studios

Bernhard Haux
Pixar Animation Studios

Tom Hahn
Pixar Animation Studios

Chen Shen
Pixar Animation Studios

Andrew Butts
Pixar Animation Studios

Jayson Price
Pixar Animation Studios

Venkat Krishna
Pixar Animation Studios

Heegun Lee
Pixar Animation Studios

Developing Joy for "Inside Out"

The main character of Pixar's "Inside Out" is Joy, a personification of emotion. The production departments were tasked with transforming an abstract concept into an animatable character that had to feel magical, yet work dependably. This required a variety of strategies and technologies, including volumes and Renderman's new geometric-area light.

Jacob Merrell
Pixar Animation Studios

Bob Moyer
Pixar Animation Studios

Alexis Angelidis
Pixar Animation Studios

Angelique Reisch
Pixar Animation Studios

Animation Recipes: Turning an Animator's Trick Into an Automatic Animation System

Inspired by an animator's trick, a Pixar team developed an automatic system called Animation Recipe that can help animators turn their rough blocking, done with a minimum number of hand-crafted key frames, into fully detailed animation with the click of a button.

Chen Shen
PIxar Animation Studios

Tom Hahn
PIxar Animation Studios

Bret Parker
PIxar Animation Studios

Sarah Shen
PIxar Animation Studios