Talks
From the Ground Up
Wednesday, 10 August 10:45 am - 12:15 pm | East Building, Ballroom A/B
Shalin Shodhan, Pixar Animation Studios
We Built This City: Big City Design and Implementation in "Kung Fu Panda 2"
This presentation describes construction of a large city environment for DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda 2", including how the chosen technique was driven at every step by the film's design language and story needs to deliver an epic setting within reasonable time constraints.
Wes Burian
DreamWorks Animation
The Visual Style of "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole"
“Legend of the Guardians: the Owls of Ga'Hoole” evokes an epic nocturnal owl world, eschewing a cartoon aesthetic in favour of a dark, operatic style. The emotional drama of the story was more important than maintaining a sense of realism or naturalism.
Grant Freckelton
Animal Logic
Craig Welsh
Animal Logic
Ben Gunsberger
Animal Logic
Clouds in the Skies of Rio
Blue Sky Studios produced a large number of art-directed cloud environments for "Rio", using optimized creation, management, compositing, and ray-tracing technologies and techniques.
Andrew Schneider
Blue Sky Studios
Trevor Thomson
Blue Sky Studios
Mathew Wilson
Blue Sky Studios