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Hypertextural Garments on Pixar's Soul Jonathan Hoffman, Matt Kuruc, Junyi Ling, Alex Marino, George Nguyen, Sasha Ouellet July 2020 The art direction of Souls version of New York City sought a highly detailed "hypertextural" style to contrast the ethereal volumetric world our characters visit later in the film. The Soul characters team identified that increasing the detail of our garment assets heightened the separation between the two worlds. To ... more Paper (PDF) |
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Rasterizing Volumes and Surfaces for Crowds on Soul Sasha Ouellet, Daniel Garcia, Stephen Gustafson, Matt Kuruc, Michael Lorenzen, George Nguyen, Grace Gilbert July 2020 In order to produce shots with hundreds of multi-volume crowd characters for Soul, we developed a pipeline rooted in rasterization techniques to pose density fields and other shading signals entirely at render-time. Paper (PDF) |
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Everybody's an Effect: Scalable Volumetric Crowds on Elemental Sasha Ouellet, Aksel Taylan, Arnold Moon, Paul Kanyuk, William Reeves May 2023 Crowd animation and rendering is challenging enough with hard surface models, but the world of Elemental takes this to a new level by immersing the viewer in a teeming metropolis populated by sentient air, fire, and water, in the form of volumetric characters. By building a new Houdini-Engine character pipeline ... more Paper (PDF) SIGGRAPH Talks 2023 |