Papers by Ben Porter


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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

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SIGGRAPH Talks 2024


Wig Refitting in Pixar's Inside Out 2

Ben Porter, Jacob Speirs, Fernando de Goes
May 2024

In Pixar's feature animation Inside Out 2 (2024), emotion characters are identified with their corresponding human characters by exhibiting similar wigs. To achieve this look, we developed a custom rig that assists the sharing and reuse of hair grooms between characters of different shapes, feature proportions, and mesh connectivities. Our ... more

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SIGGRAPH Talks 2024