Talks
Fur and Feathers
Tuesday, 9 August 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm | East Building, Ballroom A/B
Nafees Bin Zafar, DreamWorks Animation
Quill: Birds of a Feather Tool
"Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole" features over 60 distinctive, art-directed, hyper-realistic feathered characters. Animal Logic developed a procedural feathering pipeline, Quill, that allows a procedural representation of feathers with automatic de-intersection, animation, character effects, and dynamics, and rendered with extensive level-of-detail support.
Daniel Heckenberg
Animal Logic
Damien Gray
Animal Logic
Bryan Smith
Animal Logic
Jonathan Wills
Animal Logic
Chris Bone
Animal Logic
Dynamic, Penetration-Free Feathers in "Rango"
A simulation-based technique to prevent animated feather penetrations that preserves the artist's visual development as closely as possible while providing a collision-free state for subsequent animation and simulation.
Stephen Bowline
Industrial Light & Magic
Zoran Kacic-Alesic
Industrial Light & Magic
Accurate Contact Resolution for Interpolated Hairs
An accurate, robust, and efficient method to handle penetration between interpolated hairs and subdivision surfaces during render time. The method works by converting the subdivision surfaces to Bezier patches and performing accurate hair-patch intersections using Newton's method. The method works on every frame independently.
Rony Goldenthal
Industrial Light & Magic