Creating stylized trees with hundreds of thousands of leaves is typically a painstaking task that requires hours of artist time. In Walt Disney's animated feature film Tangled, we faced the challenge of populating dense forests with animated trees on ...

Simulating sub-surface scattering is one of the most effective ways for realistically synthesizing translucent materials such as marble, milk and human skin. In previous work, the method developed by Jensen et al. [2002] significantly improved the speed ...

When precomputed lighting is generated for static scene elements, the incident illumination on dynamic objects must be computed in a manner that is efficient and that faithfully captures the near- and far-field variation of the environment's ...

ModNation Racers is an action packed kart racing game focused around user generated content, developed for the Sony PlayStation 3 console. As such we need a terrain system that is dynamically editable and also has a low storage foot print. In this talk ...

REYES is a common approach to generating fine-quality pictures, which is widely used in movie industry for creating CG and cartoons. REYES pipeline is a micro-polygonal pipeline, which subdivides and dices any input primitive into sub-pixel primitives, ...

Open Shading Language (OSL) was developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks for use in its in-house renderer used for feature film animation and visual effects. OSL's specification and full implementation have been released as open source software. [Sony ...

For the creation of brilliant light displays, flickering control tower buttons and vibrant computer monitors, the goal was to build a motion graphics pipeline capable of running nearly unattended. Effects work would have to feed into the production ...

Computing indirect lighting in video games simultaneously improves gameplay and scene realism. However, the context of 3D video games brings very restrictive constraints: (1) the computation should be very fast (less than 10 ms) and --most importantly-- ...

Motion blur is key to delivering a sense of speed in interactive video game rendering. Further, simulating accurate camera optical exposure properties and reduction of temporal aliasing brings us closer to high quality real-time rendering productions. ...

Deferred shading is an increasingly popular technique for video game rendering. In the standard implementation a geometry pass writes depths, normals and other properties to a geometry buffer (G-buffer) before a lighting pass is applied as a screen ...

This talk presents a new approach to distance visualization of very large data sets output from scientific supercomputing. The processing power of massively parallel supercomputers increases at a rather fast rate, about an order of magnitude faster ...