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Light Pruning on Toy Story 4 Vaibhav Vavilala July 2019 Pixar films have recently seen drastically rising light counts via procedural generation, resulting in longer render times and slower interactive workflows. Here we present a fully automated, scalable, and error-free light pruning pipeline deployed on Toy Story 4 that reduces final render times by 15-50% in challenging cases, accelerates interactive ... more Paper (PDF) |
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Deep Learned Super Resolution for Feature Film Production Vaibhav Vavilala, Mark Meyer June 2020 Upscaling techniques are commonly used to create high resolution images, which are cost-prohibitive or even impossible to produce otherwise. In recent years, deep learning methods have improved the detail and sharpness of upscaled images over traditional algorithms. Here we discuss the motivation and challenges of bringing deep learned super resolution ... more Paper (PDF) |