“Advancements in Non-Procedural Groom Workflows for Mufasa: The Lion King” by Traynar, Romeo, Baleguli, Morvan, Richardson, et al. …
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- Advancements in Non-Procedural Groom Workflows for Mufasa: The Lion King
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- Cloth and a Haircut: More Than 2 Bits
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At MPC, we have recently transitioned from a proprietary, procedural solution to a new, non-procedural technology called Loma. Mufasa: The Lion King was one of the first projects chosen to use Loma in a production setting, primarily with the goal of creating higher fidelity grooms needed by the 20+ hero characters on the project without the performance limitations of a procedural system. However, non-procedural workflows come with their own limitations so, in this paper, we will discuss some of the problems we faced during production and the solutions we developed to navigate them.
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[2] Andrew Butts, Ben Porter, Dirk Van Gelder, Mark Hessler, Venkateswaran Krishna, and Gary Monheit. 2018. Engineering full-fidelity hair for Incredibles 2. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Talks (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) (SIGGRAPH ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 2 pages.
[3] Disney©. 2024. Mufasa: The Lion King.
[4] Marco Romeo, Carlos Monteagudo Manas, Hristo Arabadzhiyski, Isabela Rovira, Srijith Vasudevan, and Matt Traynar. 2022. Groom Styles Interpolation with Features Preservation for Digital Creatures Effects. In Proceedings of the 2022 Digital Production Symposium (Vancouver, BC, Canada) (DigiPro ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 8 pages.
[5] Matthew Traynar. 2023. A Breath of Fresh Hair: Lessons learned moving away from a proprietary, procedural groom system. In Proceedings of the 2023 Digital Production Symposium (Los Angeles, CA, USA) (DigiPro ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 7 pages.
