Kelly Ward
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Walt Disney Animation Studios, Senior Software Engineer
Other / Past Affiliation(s):
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2008
Kelly Ward is currently a senior software engineer at Walt Disney Animation Studios, where she develops hair simulation tools for animated films. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2002 and 2005, respectively. She received a B.S. with honors in Computer Science and Physics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 2000, where she was named the President’s Fellow in Physics in 1999-2000. Her research interests include hair modeling, physically-based simulation, collision detection, and computer animation. She has given several presentations and invited lectures on her hair modeling research at international venues.
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Directing hair motion on Tangled Presenter(s): [Simmons] [Ward] [Yosumi] [Leo] [Zhao]
[SIGGRAPH 2011]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Simulating Rapunzel's hair in Disney's Tangled Presenter(s): [Ward] [Simmons] [Milne] [Yosumi] [Zhao]
[SIGGRAPH 2010]
Type: [Technical Papers]
Detail preserving continuum simulation of straight hair Presenter(s): [McAdams] [Selle] [Ward] [Sifakis] [Teran]
[SIGGRAPH 2009]
Type: [Courses]
Realistic Hair Simulation: Animation and Rendering Organizer(s): [Bertails-Descoubes]
Presenter(s): [Bertails-Descoubes] [Hadap] [Cani] [Kim] [Marschner] [Ward] [Kačić-Alesić]
Entry No.: [27]
[SIGGRAPH 2008]
Type: [Courses]
Strands and Hair: Modeling, Animation, and Rendering Organizer(s): [Hadap]
Presenter(s): [Cani] [Bertails-Descoubes] [Ward] [Marschner] [Kim] [Kačić-Alesić]
Entry No.: [33]
[SIGGRAPH 2007]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Simulating and Rendering Wet Hair Presenter(s): [Ward] [Galoppo] [Lin]
[SIGGRAPH 2004]
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