Curtis Andrus
ABSTRACT
Due to MPC's departmental and multi-site nature, there is an increasing need from artists to make changes to grooms at different points in the pipeline. We describe a new system we've built into Furtility (MPC's in-house grooming tool) to support these requests, providing a powerful tool for non-destructively layering changes on top of a base groom description.
Index Terms
- Layering changes in a procedural grooming pipeline
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