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Metaball Madness - The Rigging Of An Implicit Surface Character
SessionAnimating and Rendering Ooze
DescriptionWe present a novel character rigging solution developed for OOOOO, a liquid supercomputer in Pixar's Elio. OOOOO is Pixar’s first mesh-free character rig with a hierarchical arrangement of implicit surface primitives and operators, allowing for complex transformations and offers unprecedented flexibility in character animation.
Contributors
Anna-Christine Lykkegaard
Pixar Animation Studios
Andrew Butts
Pixar Animation Studios
Julian Teo
Pixar Animation Studios
Event Type
Talk
TimeThursday, 14 August 20259:22am - 9:44am PDT
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C
Session TimeThursday, 14 August 20259:00am - 10:30am PDT
LocationWest Building, Ballroom C
Interest Areas
Production & Animation
Recordings
Livestreamed
Recorded
Keywords
Animation
Art
Geometry
Modeling
Rendering
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