“Shaping the Elements: Curvenet Animation Controls in Pixar’s Elemental” by Quang Nguyen, Talbot, Sheffler, Hessler, Fleischer, et al. … – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Shaping the Elements: Curvenet Animation Controls in Pixar’s Elemental” by Quang Nguyen, Talbot, Sheffler, Hessler, Fleischer, et al. …

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    Production & Animation

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    Shaping the Elements: Curvenet Animation Controls in Pixar's Elemental

Session/Category Title:   Rigging Without the Rig: New Methods in Character Animation


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    This work presents a new shaping rig for creating fine animation controls deployed in Pixar’s feature film Elemental. We developed new tools that auto-generate surface-aligned orientations mapping animation controls into curvenet deformations. As a result, animators can quickly reshape the character articulation free of any extra rigging setup.

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    [1] Fernando de Goes, William Sheffler, and Kurt Fleischer. 2022. Character Articulation through Profile Curves. ACM Trans. Graph. 41, 4, Article 139 (jul 2022), 14 pages.

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