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Anyone Can Cook -- Inside Ratatouille's Kitchen Jun Han Cho, Athena Xenakis, Stefan Gronsky, Apurva Shah July 2007 The passion for cooking and food are the central theme of Pixar's recent film - Ratatouille. This complex and multi-faceted problem posed many challenges that were solved using diverse computer graphics and production techniques. In this course we will comprehensively cover all aspects including modeling, dressing, shading, lighting and effects.
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Automating the Handmade: Shading Thousands of Garments for Coco Byron Bashforth, Fernando de Goes, Jacob Kuenzel, Jake Merrell, Athena Xenakis August 2018 Coco presented a challenge for the garment shading team. Firstly, the scale of the movie is significant with both the human and skeleton worlds filled with primary, secondary, and background characters. Secondly, the garments speak to a specific culture and our shading needed to be very detailed to ... more Paper (PDF) |
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Elemental Characters: Making Characters Out of Thin Air Markus Kranzler, Krzysztof Rost, Ravindra Dwivedi, Athena Xenakis, Andrew Pettit May 2023 Pixar's upcoming feature film Elemental required many new technical solutions due to its ambitious visual language and storytelling. The film's characters, made of different elements - fire, water, air, and earth, required a unique approach in finding answers. For our main Air characters we had to come up with a ... more Paper (PDF) SIGGRAPH Talks 2023 |
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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 Paper (PDF) SIGGRAPH Talks 2024 |