Papers by Gary Bruins


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Rat-Sized Water Effects in Ratatouille

Gary Bruins, Jon Reisch
May 2007

A particularly heavy effects sequence in the film Ratatouille depicts a colony of rats fleeing their home and crossing a long narrow river in several makeshift boats during a rainy afternoon. Nearly the entire sequence was photographed inches above the ground from a s perspective. Although this perspective provided a very interesting point of view ... more

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Available as Pixar Technical Memo #07-14


Fine Tuning Every Grain on the Beach

Lan Tang, Gary Bruins, Jae Jun Yi, Alexis Angelidis, Dave Quirus, David Luoh
Aug 2025



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SIGGRAPH Talks 2025