“Art-Directable Canopies in Pixar’s Vegetation Pipeline” by Kuruc, Tsang and Nettleship
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- Art-Directable Canopies in Pixar’s Vegetation Pipeline
Session/Category Title: Crowded, Furry and in a Hurry
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In computer animation, vegetation models must often conform to art-directed trunk and canopy shapes. To achieve these looks, a team at Pixar developed a toolset that interpolates branching detail between specific art-directed elements. This paper also discusses techniques to plausibly shadow large forests of these assets.
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RUNIONS, A., LANE, B., AND PRUSINKIEWICZ, P. 2007. Modeling trees with a space colonization algorithm. In Proceedings of the Third Eurographics Conference on Natural Phenomena, Eu- rographics Association, Aire-la-Ville, Switzerland, Switzerland, NPH’07, 63–70.
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