“Elemental Characters: Making Characters Out of Thin Air” by Kranzler, Dwivedi, Rost, Pettit and Xenakis
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- Production & Animation
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- Elemental Characters: Making Characters Out of Thin Air
Session/Category Title: Elemental, Dear Watson!: The Technology Behind Elemental
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We present a system for creating Air characters for Pixar’s upcoming film Elemental. Our solution combined procedural and simulation techniques in a seamless way to bring characters to life. We preserved the performance and design of our main characters and accommodated the vast scope of secondary Air characters.
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[1] J. Fong, J. Jarvers, M. Kranzler, and R. Michero. 2020. Finding the Look of Souls. In SIGGRAPH 2020 Talks. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages.
[2] M. Gilbert, J. Kuenzel, K. Campbell, D. Strick, G. Gladstone, J.-C. Kalache, A. Jones, J. Barry, F. de Goes, and J. Jarvers. 2023. Elemental Characters: Bringing Water to Life. In Submitted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Talks. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages.
[3] J. Hoffman, F. Hu, P. Kanyuk, S. Marshall, H. Schroers, and P. Witting. 2023. Elemental Characters: From Sparks to Fire. In Submitted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Talks. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages.
[4] Pixar. [n. d.]. Universal Scene Description. https://graphics.pixar.com/usd/release/index.html
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