“Ways to Skin a Hairless Cat:Building a Creepy Kitty Villain at Tippett Studio” by Bourland – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Ways to Skin a Hairless Cat:Building a Creepy Kitty Villain at Tippett Studio” by Bourland




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    Ways to Skin a Hairless Cat:Building a Creepy Kitty Villain at Tippett Studio

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    Tippett Studio shows its innovative approach to achieving the wrinkles, skin, and fur on a computer-generated version of a “hairless” sphynx cat, including advanced skin shading, enhancements to its in-house fur system, and clever use of pose-driven tangent-space vector displacement.


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    Producer: Lori Petrini
    Technical Art Director: Aharon Bourland
    VFX Supervisor: Blair Clark
    VFX Supervisor: Scott Liedtka
    VFX Producer: Fiona Chilton
    Animation Supervisor: Will Groebe
    CG Supervisor: Charles Rose
    Character CG Supervisor: Stephen Unterfranz
    Lead Character Rigger: Morgan Loomis
    Compositing Supervisor: Colin Epstein
    Lighting Supervisor: Steve Reding

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