Papers by Ana Lacaze


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Eyes Without a Face: Integrating detached facial features into Pixar's character pipeline

Anna-Christine Lykkegaard, Ana Lacaze, Jonathan Page
May 2023

From an asset creation perspective, Pixar's first long formseries, Win or Lose, had a daunting number of featured characters. In addition to the large scope of the project, the design pushed further into the stylistic trend of somerecent Pixar films - favoring graphic shape language infacial expressions. The methodology that ... more

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SIGGRAPH Talks 2023


Familiar Feelings: Emotion Look Re-Development on Pixar's Inside Out 2

Ana Lacaze, Masha Ellsworth, Ben Porter, Athena Xenakis, Te Hu, Markus Kranzler, Jacob Kuenzel, Alexis Angelidis
May 2024

The emotion characters on Pixar's Inside Out (2015) were composed of multiple elements that gave them an ethereal look. They were an ingenious composite of a core volume that behaved and illuminated as a glowing surface, moving particles that hovered over it, an edge volume tinted differently based on the ... more

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SIGGRAPH Talks 2024