“Lighting Up The Smurfs Enchanted Forest” by Chen, Kulla, Miller and Chen
Conference:
Title:
- Lighting Up The Smurfs Enchanted Forest
Session/Category Title: Tools of the Trade
Presenter(s)/Author(s):
Entry Number: 72
Abstract:
In Smurfs: The Lost Village, the enchanted forest is central to the environment and story. The task was to create millions of exotic plants of hundreds of different species spreading across the forest. The plants in the forest emit light when in the shade, and stop when they are hit by sunlight. We revisited the way in which our lighting tool creates lights to scale to huge light counts without compromising on the ability to fine tune lighting through features like light linking. This lead to simplified workflows for the artists who were able to easily manipulate shots with up to several millions of individual lights.
References:
Brian Hall, Jeremy Selan, and Steve LaVietes. 2014. Katana’s Geolib: Behind the Scenes. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 Talks (SIGGRAPH ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 60, 1 pages.
The Foundry. 2011. KATANA. https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/katana/. (2011).
