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Metaball Madness: Look Development For A Shapeshifting, Implicit Surface Character On Pixar’s Elio
SessionAnimating and Rendering Ooze
DescriptionElio's OOOOO is Pixar's first character created as an implicit surface, visualized with GLSL in our animation software, Presto. This talk will go past the model/rig stage and consider look development challenges related to the loss of stable mesh data on a shapeshifting character, resulting in a per-frame process.
Contributors
Catherine Luo
Pixar Animation Studios
Trent Crow
Pixar Animation Studios
Fernando de Goes
Pixar Animation Studios
Ferdi Scheepers
Pixar Animation Studios
Event Type
Talk
TimeThursday, 14 August 20259:44am - 10:06am 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
Geometry
Pipeline Tools and Work
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