Talks
Crowds and Complexity
Sunday, 9 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB Session Chair: Joshua Grow, JOUST
Crowds and Complexity
T1000: Effects-Driven Character Performance in "Terminator Genisys"
For T1000, a largely effects-driven character, Double Negative introduced a procedural pipeline that enables the artist to deliver a more story-driven, monstrous character performance.
Jamie Haydock
Double Negative Visual Effects
A Modular Crowd (n)Cloth System for Exodus: Gods and Kings
For “Exodus: Gods and Kings”, to simulate cloth on crowds of up to 200,000 agents, MPC changed the way the base meshes were made and implemented a modular crowd cloth system.
Clair Bellens
Moving Picture Company
Marco D'Ambros
Moving Picture Company
"Jupiter Ascending": Constructing Large-Scale Environments
How Double Negative restructured their environment pipeline by decoupling representation of layout from geometry, in order to achieve greater scalability and greater consistency across a wide range of artist applications, and ultimately deliver two large-scale environments for the feature film "Jupiter Ascending".
James Bird
Double Negative Visual Effects
Maxim Fleury
Double Negative Visual Effects
Real-Time Crowd Visualization in Point-Cached Pipelines
Introducing several high-performance crowd visualization techniques specifically for point-cached crowds, which uniquely leverage modern GPU hardware to maximize utilization and minimize disk IO.
Jeremy Cowles
PIxar Animation Studios
Takahito Tejima
Pixar Animation Studios
David Yu
Pixar Animation Studios