“Kami Geometry Instancer: Putting the ‘Smurfy’ in Smurf Village” by Chardavoine and Bruderlin
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- Kami Geometry Instancer: Putting the 'Smurfy' in Smurf Village
Session/Category Title: Facing Hairy Production Problems
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Kami is a geometry-instancing pipeline to generate and deform simple primitives like curves (for fur, hair, and grass) and arbitrarily complex shaded hierarchical geometry. The system has been most recently used in “The Smurfs” movie to populate a village with plants, flowers, and grass.