“Animation and simulation of octopus arms in ‘The Night at the Museum 2′”
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- Animation and simulation of octopus arms in 'The Night at the Museum 2'
Session/Category Title: Character Animation and Rigging
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We present a set of techniques we used to animate flexible arms of the monstrous octopus character in ‘The Night at the Museum 2’. For this production, we adopted layered approaches, where key motions of the arms were animated with conventional methods by animators, while details were cleaned up by multiple passes of simulations of skeleton, flesh and tentacles.
