“WIZ: DreamWorks GPU-accelerated Interactive Hair/Fur Deformation and Visualization Toolset” by Somasundaram and Shay
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Entry Number: 54
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- WIZ: DreamWorks GPU-accelerated Interactive Hair/Fur Deformation and Visualization Toolset
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WIZ is a hair/fur visualization toolset at DreamWorks that uses the power of the GPU for both interactive deformation and display in the 3-D viewport. WIZ closely approximates the final render hair motion on the GPU based on skin and guide curve motion, and provides the artist with various options for render hair deformation. It can use the character’s hair textures and closely approximate the final look of the hair. Hundreds of thousands or millions of curves in motion can be visualized close to real-time which can help the artist evaluate hair/fur motion iteratively in a shot without having to do a render or having to use much slower existing viewport displays, thus providing significant time and resource savings.
