“Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System” by Jeor, Michael, Phillips and Somasundaram – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System” by Jeor, Michael, Phillips and Somasundaram

  • 2019 Talks: Michael_Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System

  • 2019 Talks: Michael_Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System

  • 2019 Talks: Michael_Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System

  • 2019 Talks: Michael_Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System

  • 2019 Talks: Michael_Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System

  • 2019 Talks: Michael_Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System

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    Production & Animation

Entry Number: 62

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    Grasshopper: DreamWorks Environmental Motion System

Session/Category Title:   Here Comes the Groom and Rig


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    This talk presents DreamWorks’ Grasshopper, an environmental motion system for creating believable animation for grass, plants, and other vegetation. The system was used extensively on the complex and expansive sets in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World and is currently being used on more productions at DreamWorks.

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    Arunachalam Somasundaram. 2017. FurCollide: Fast, Robust, and Controllable Fur Collisions with Meshes. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Talks (SIGGRAPH ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 55, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3084363.3085051

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