“The hair motion compositor: compositing dynamic hair animations in a production environment”
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- The hair motion compositor: compositing dynamic hair animations in a production environment
Session/Category Title: Animateering
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Digital characters can appear in both live action and computer-animated movies. Most of them involve some form of dynamic hair or fur, often having to be both believable and heavily art-directed. No matter which dynamic hair solver a facility relies on, there’s only so much that can be achieved with a physically realistic model, and most of the artist’s time is spent fixing or fine-tuning hair simulations to satisfy a Director or supervisor. To address this, Sony Pictures Imageworks developed the Hair Motion Compositor: a powerful hair animation framework that allows artists to direct, combine, offset and override hair animations that go in or come out of a dynamics solver.
