Papers by Anna-Christine Lykkegaard


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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


Code To The Cosmos: Animation Outside the Box, in Pixar's Elio

Anna-Christine Lykkegaard, Trent Crow, Eric Anderson
Aug 2025



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SIGGRAPH Talks 2025


Metaball Madness - The Rigging Of An Implicit Surface Character

Anna-Christine Lykkegaard, Andrew Butts, Julian Teo
Aug 2025



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SIGGRAPH Talks 2025