Talks
Links and Locks
Monday, 10 August 3:45 PM - 5:35 PM | Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 502AB Session Chair: Doug Roble, Digital Domain
Links and Locks
Rigid Link Chains in "Kung Fu Panda 3"
The villain of "Kung Fu Panda 3" uses long chains, attached to a pair of wide-bladed swords, to control or destroy the environments that he encounters. To empower artists to freely drive chains without deforming individual links, DreamWorks Animation developed a series of tools focused on interactive user control.
Jason Weber
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
Hair Smash
A technique to precisely smash fine-render hair and level-of-detail proxy tube hair under hats and headsets in reference space and apply it automatically to characters in animated shots to produce significant savings in time and disk space while supporting a diversely attired cast.
Colleen O'Hagan
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
Arunachalam Somasundaram
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
Jason Weber
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
Dynamically Controlling Hair Interpolation
Techniques for dynamically controlling hair interpolation to produce art-directable hair shapes, to procedurally clump hair to create rich-looking dynamic hair shapes, and to resolve interpolated hair collisions with mesh geometry that can happen at render time.
Arunachalam Somasundaram
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.
Interactive Script-Based Dynamics in "Big Hero 6"
This talk presents a very efficient and directable procedural technique for explosive dynamic effects that can both substitute for and interface with traditional dynamic-calculation techniques.
Dong Joo Byun
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Zubin Wadia
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Michael Kaschalk
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Coloring and Texturing Volume Simulations From Texture Images
A fluid system that emits density with color vectors and noise patterns from textured images to add stylization to the volume.
Jihyun Yoon
DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.