Zootopia crowd pipeline

Disney's 55th feature animated film Zootopia takes place in a modern animal metropolis. Bringing this bustling city to life required creating a universe in which moose drive cars, lions take selfies and wildebeest herds roam the sidewalks. Many different species of animals of various sizes and proportions inhabit this city and interact with each other as well as objects and vehicles in their environment, creating some unprecedented challenges for our crowd pipeline. This required us to rethink how we approach the crowd toolset. We needed to develop tools flexible enough to handle such a wide variety of cases. Building off of the work done on Big Hero 6 [Hamed et al. 2015], a modular design was constructed in which a reliable core set the foundation over which tools could be developed and abstracted, providing the framework for artists to easily construct tools and be able to build on each other's work and tackle increasingly complex tasks effectively.