“Elemental Characters: The Living Vegetation of Element City” by Mourino, Mitchell, Gilbert and Campbell – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Elemental Characters: The Living Vegetation of Element City” by Mourino, Mitchell, Gilbert and Campbell

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    Elemental Characters: The Living Vegetation of Element City

Session/Category Title:   Practical Proceduralism in Production


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    The Earth characters of Pixar’s Elemental feature a wide range of foliage adornments, ranging from bushes and small plants to trees that tower over their bodies. Creating appealing motion for each of the variations of these characters presented a unique challenge to the Simulation Team, and led to a significant expansion of the existing simulation pipeline. These characters needed to believably co-exist in a world with set-dressed foliage, while also interacting with the diverse and mechanically challenging environment of Element City. In order to meet the demands of a film featuring crowded mass transit, high levels of action, and trees that prune each other, a new series of tools were created to allow Pixar’s Simulation artists to apply the most powerful tools at our disposal to the most appropriate tasks.

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    [1] Kristopher Campbell and Jonas Jarvers. 2020. Building A Dynamic Dad. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Talks (Virtual Event, USA) (SIGGRAPH ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 26, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3388767.3407326

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