“Building Moana’s Kakamora Barge”
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Entry Number: 66
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- Building Moana’s Kakamora Barge
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In Walt Disney Animation Studio’s Moana, a key moment in the story calls for the protagonists to confront a floating island barge crewed by coconut-clad pirates: the Kakamora. Combining a large moving set on an animated ocean with active crowds, sails, ropes and effects simulations required coordination across multiple departments and some on-the-fly innovations. To handle the challenges the sequence presented, we made extensive use of automation and procedural tools along with some creative design decisions to save artist time and allow for greater reuse.
References:
Moe El-Ali, Le Tong, Josh Richards, Tuan Nguyen, Alberto Luceno Ros, and Norman Moses Joseph. 2016. Zootopia Crowd Pipeline. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Talks (SIGGRAPH ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 59, 2 pages. Google ScholarDigital Library
Jonathan Garcia, Sara Drakeley, Sean Palmer, Erin Ramos, David Hutchins, Ralf Habel, and Alexey Stomakhin. 2016. Rigging the Oceans of Disney’s “Moana”. In SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Technical Briefs (SA ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 30, 4 pages
