Hair today, cloth tomorrow: automating character fx on peter rabbit

Beginning with the early concept art, Moana featured characters with long curly hair interacting heavily with both the characters and their environment. This level of complexity in hair interactions and dynamics presented demanding simulation needs ...

Creating appealing shapes and silhouettes of a character's hair while maintaining the organic motion produced by physical simulation is a challenge in Disney's very stylized animated worlds. This talk describes the introduction of hierarchical sculpting ...

Procedural workflows are widely used for creating hair and fur on characters in the visual effects industry, usually in the form of a node-based system. While they are able to create hairstyles with great variety, procedural systems often need to be ...