Got 'Bots

Talks

Got 'Bots

Tuesday, 11 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 515AB Session Chair: Ann McNamara, Texas A&M University

"X-Men Days of Future Past": Directing a Highly Complex Shape-Shifting Sentinel

The Sentinel is covered with 100,000 blades and cannot be animated using traditional methods. The MPC team introduced the concept of follicles that approximated blade models and combined them into animatable follicle-meshes from which particles were derived. These particles were then ingested by Katana, where this complex character was assembled.

Tony Micilotta
The Moving Picture Company

Procedural Animation Technology Behind the Microbots in "Big Hero 6"

This talk proposes the fundamental concept establishment of procedural animation derived from the time-step set-up, and the history-dependency-based categorization of procedural animation, by presenting procedurally animated pattern-generation algorithms and tools developed for microbot effects in "Big Hero 6".

Dong Joo Byun
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Henrik Falt
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Ben Frost
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Mir Ali
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Eric Daniels
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Peter De Mund
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Michael Kaschalk
Walt Disney Animation Studios